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distinction), and also of & floret or floscule; be also calls the 
compound flower flos utiivef salts, arid the florets of which it 
is composed* he calis^om propriu 
Character in the compound state. 
Calyx. A common perianthium containing the receptacle 
and florets; which contracts when the florets are fallen, 
but expands and turns hack when tkjs seeds are ripe. It 
is either simple * as when composed of only a single row 
of scales or leaves; imbricated, (tiled) as when the scales 
are numerous, and the huter lie upon the inner, like tiles 
upon a house; or augmented, (increased or leafy) as when 
a single row of longer leaves or segments of the calyx 
surrounds the florets, and another row of very small 
leaves or scales surrounds the base of those longer leaves 
or segments. 
Receptacle. Is the common receptacle of the fructification * 
receiving many florets sitting on its disc; which is either 
concave, convex, flat* pyramidal* or globular; and the 
surface of the disc is either naked, without other in¬ 
equality than that of being lightly dotted, as in Icon* 
iodon, &c.; hairy, covered with upright hairs, as in car- 
■ dims, &£.; or chaffy* covered with linear, awl-shaped* 
compressed, upright paleae or chaffy substances* sepa* 
rating the florets* as in anthemis, achillea * &e. 
Character of a floret. % 
Calyx. When present, a small perianthium with generally 
five clefts, sitting upon the top of the gefm'en* and after¬ 
wards becoming the crown of the seed. 
Corolla. One petal, tube very narrow, long* seated on the 
germen* with generally three or five clefts or teelh : And 
is either tubular, with the border funnelled or bell-shaped, 
five-cleft, the Segments reflexed and expahding; or ligu- 
late (from ligula, a strap or fillet), having a short tube with 
border linear, flat, turned outward, and the top entire* 
* The character here given is of a monpclinian floret. 
