lU SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA ^EQUALIS. 
and goes through the cylinder formed by the anthers, ^he 
fiigma is divided into two 'parts ^ which ft and open and 
bend backwards, 
^hefe plants have properly no pericarpium^ thd" in forne few 
f pecks there is a coreaceous cruft placed about the feed, 
khe feed is fingle and oblongs often of a quadrangular 
figure., and fomelimes narrower at the bafe than any other 
part. However in dijferent genera cf this clafs they are 
cf a very different appearance at the ends-, fane are crown- 
ed with a downy matter., compefed of a great number of 
fingle fhort filaments placed circularly, or otherwife, on the 
head of the feed. In fome the downy matter is radiated, 
in others it is ramofe or branched, and in fome it is fup- 
ported on a pedicle, while in others it ftands immediately on 
the feed. In feme genera, the feeds have no down at all, 
hut have a fmall corona formed cf what was originally the 
cup cf the flower. Hhis is permanent, and divided ufu- 
ally into five fegments. In fome the feed is wholly naked, 
having neither any down, nor this crown of a cup. 
*This clafs is divided from the fruffification into 
P O L Y G A M I A Al QU A L I S, 
SUPERFLUA, 
Frustranea, 
Necessaria, 
SegPvEgata, and 
Syngenesia Monogamia. 
SYNGENESIA POLTGAMIA JE^ALIS 
miprehends fuch plants as have compound flowers, of which 
the florets are all hermaphrodite. 
TRAGOPQGON. Goat’s Bea^id. 
T he common cup is fimple, and formed of eight 
acute pointed, equal petals, joined at the bafe. 
The compound flower is imbricated and uniform; the 
hermaphrodite florets are numerous, and the exterior 
one® 
