The species, divaricata and Sparganophora, are excluded 
by M. Cassini; the first under the generic title Epa.rss, 
the second under that of SparGanopHorus. 
We have already enumerated the Tribes under which the 
Composite: are distributed by M. Cassini (see vol. 7. fol. 532). 
The characters of these divisions have been combined from _ 
the following parts of the plant and in the following order — 
of precedence in respect to importance: 1.the style with 
stigma and its collectors; 2. the stamens; 3. the florets ; 
4. the germen and its appurtenances; coupled always with 
the assumption that the parts of those florets that have 
perfect stamens and pistil are alone available for this 
purpose.’ The stigma, the most important distinction in 
the greatest portion of the tribes, is considered. by, M. 
Cassini a sole part; the smooth substance which either 
borders or covers the inner surface of the two branches of 
the style (stigmatophores) and is usually confluent at the — 
fork, being alone accounted as such. The variously modified _ 
efflorescences that occupy the outer and remaining surface _ 
of these branches, or as they have! been usually considered 
by others, separate stigmas, constitute the collectors of M. 
Cassini, and are so called from gathering the pollen in their 
ascent along the common axis of the united anthers. 
The generic characters are selected from the seedcrown 
(pappus), the composition of the common corolla, ‘the ca- 
lyx, and the receptacle; recourse being had in complex and 
intercurrent affinities to the cou inRsmen of analogies drawn: 
from other parts. 
The above principles are manifestly the result’ ‘of a-com- 
prehensive investigation conducted with eminent sagacity 
and industry, and will be found in practice to. comprize 
much. original resource for the Botanist. -The various. sec- 
tions and genera assorted from them appear .to us both na~ 
tural and useful, and such as will be generally adopted ; 
we trust however without the fantastical. and capriciously. 
novel phraseology yu ech their definitions. abound in 
the French. ep Z 
