PLANT DESCRIPTION 245 
their anthers), epipetalous. The five anthers unite to 
form a tube enclosing the style. Into this tube the 
pollen is shed. 
COMPOSITAE 
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DISG:FLORET STAMENS- OPENED ‘OUT 
DANDELION - FLOWER 
wa FIGISO 
Veer 7 
SECTION-OF \/ FLOWER 
Gynecium—Carpels two in both ray and disc 
florets; synearpous; stigma two-lobed; ovary inferior, 
one-celled containing a single ovule. 
Fruit—aA cypsela, «e., a fruit after the nature of 
an achene but formed from an inferior ovary derived 
from two united ecarpels. 
