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centre of the head, are the numerous little florets 
each organized with its separate floral whorls, like the 
larger and more conspicuous flowers of other plants. 
There is an expanded disk on which they are 
seated, and which in the présent species has not 
scales or chaff upon its surface, as is the case in 
the Sunflower, and many others of the same order. 
