Dicotyledons with Gamopetaloits Flowers — Composite. 
BRACTS surrounding the flower-head ( involucre) usually herbaceous ; in Everlastings ( Helichrysum) and Garden 
Catananche dry scarious and coloured, persisting after the florets are fallen : bracts equal as in Daisy, or in 2 series, 
the outer recurved, as in Dandelion, or numerous and imbricating as in Knapweed and Bluebottle ( Gentaurea ). 
FLOWER-HEADS consisting of tubular florets only as in Thistles ( Garduus ), or ligulate florets only as in Dandelion 
( Taraxacum ), or tubular florets in the centre forming a disk and ligulate florets outside forming a ray as in Daisy 
(Beilis) and Sunflower ( Helianthus ); florets all hermaphrodite as in Dandelion, or those of the disk hermaphrodite 
and those of the ray pistillate as in Daisy, or the outer florets neuter as in Bluebottle ( Gentaurea Cyanus), or the 
florets of the disk staminate and those of the ray pistillate as in Marigold ( Calendula ), or flower-heads dioecious as 
in Mountain Everlasting (Gnaphalium dioicum) and Creeping Thistle ( Garduus arvensis), or each floret tubular 
and inclosed in a separate involucel as in Echinops. Florets arranged upon a flat, convex or conical receptacle, 
with a chaffy scale subtending each floret as in Chamomile (Anthemis), or without scales ( naked receptacle) as in 
Daisy and Dandelion. 
ANTHERS cohering by their margins into a tube surrounding the style, with or without microscopic tail-like 
appendages at the base of each anther-cell. 
Style slender, cylindrical, or, as in Bluebottle, slightly thickened under its branches with a minute hairy or 
papillose ring ; STYLE-BRANCHES tapering to a fine point and studded over the entire surface with minute bristles 
as is characteristic of the exotic Tribe Vernoniece; or either club-shaped or cylindrical and blunt as in the Tribe 
Eupatoriecc , chiefly exotic, represented in Britain by Hemp Agrimony (Eupatorium) and Coltsfoot ( Tussilago); or 
more or less flattened and tapering at the tips as in the Tribe Asterinece, represented in Britain by Aster, Golden-rod 
(Solidago), and several other genera; or ending rather abruptly or in a minute cone at the tip, with papillae or 
microscopic hairs, as in Senecionidece , of which numerous genera are British, as the Groundsels and Ragworts 
(Senecio) and Chamomile. 
Fruit a dry achene ; naked as in Daisy and Ox-eye ( Chrysanthemum) ; or crowned with the calyx-limb 
(pappus), which may consist of fine simple hairs as in Groundsel ( Senecio vulgaris) and Garden Cineraria; or of 
