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atoms. However, to put you at least in the 
way, pull out one of the white leaves from 
the flower; you will think at first that it is 
flat from one end to the other; but look care¬ 
fully at the end by which it was fastened to 
the flower, and you will see that it is not flat, 
but round and hollow in form of a tube, and 
that a little thread ending in two horns issues 
from the tube; this thread is the forked style 
of the flower, which, as you now see, is flat 
only at top. 
“Now look at those little yellow things in 
the middle of the flower, and which, as I 
have told you, are all so many flowers ; if the 
flower be sufficiently advanced, you will see 
several of them open in the middle, and even 
cut into several parts. 
“ These are monopetalous corollas, which 
expand ; and a glass will easily discover in 
them the pistil, and even the anthers with 
which it is surrounded. Commonly the 
yellow florets towards the centre are still 
rounded and closed. These, however, are 
flowers like the others, but not yet open ; for 
they expand successively from the edge in¬ 
wards. This is enough to show you by the 
eye the possibility that all these small affairs, 
may be so many distinct flowers; and this is a 
constant fact. You perceive, nevertheless, 
that all these little flowers are pressed, and 
inclosed in a calyx, which is common to them 
all, and which is that of the Daisy. In 
considering then the whole Daisy as one 
flower, we give it a very significant name, 
when we call it a compound flower .” 
