. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. never tumid ; the branches long, linear, truncate, fringed only at the point. Suborder III. Liguliflor^; that is to say, those whose corollas are sht or ligulate, viz. 8. Cichoraceae. Fig. CCCCLXXIV.—Involucre, receptacle, and half fruit of Amoseris pusilla.—G^rr/n. Fig. CCCCLXXV.—Stigmas of Composites, illustrating De Candolles tribes (after Ileyland). 1. Alber-tinia erythropappa (Vemoniacea?); 2. AnisochJEta mikanioides (Eupatoriacenc); ^^. Hlumea senecioidea(AsteroideEe); 4.
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. never tumid ; the branches long, linear, truncate, fringed only at the point. Suborder III. Liguliflor^; that is to say, those whose corollas are sht or ligulate, viz. 8. Cichoraceae. Fig. CCCCLXXIV.—Involucre, receptacle, and half fruit of Amoseris pusilla.—G^rr/n. Fig. CCCCLXXV.—Stigmas of Composites, illustrating De Candolles tribes (after Ileyland). 1. Alber-tinia erythropappa (Vemoniacea?); 2. AnisochJEta mikanioides (Eupatoriacenc); ^^. Hlumea senecioidea(AsteroideEe); 4. Mendezia bicolor(Senecionid€a?); 5. Lipochietaumbellata (Senecionidea?) ; «5. Aplotaxisnepalensis (Cynarea;); 7. Leucomeris spectabilis (Mutisiaceae); 8. Leuceria tenuis (Nassauviacese.) Fig. CCCCLXXV. 704 ASTERACE^. [Epigynous Exogens. But although it must be admitted that the di\asions of Lessing, so nearly followed byDe Candolle, are ingenious, and often founded on striking characters, yet Botanists willalso allow that they are far from satisf;ying the mind, and that they can only at the best 6 7 7. 2 5 Fig. CCCCLXXVI. be looked upon as temporary devices for dealing with a most unmanageable and difficultsubject. The Composite Order alone comprehends at the present day more species thanLinnseus knew as belonging to the whole vegetable kingdom, and the time will come whenthis huge Order will be classified upon different principles. There can be no doubt thatthe genera are needlessly multiplied ; a very little practice tells us that the generacollected under the signs above given do not in all cases exliibit those signs, as is evidentfrom the figures executed under the eye of De Candolle himself ; and we know that, infact, genera find their place by considerations apart from those ostensibly put forwardby De Candolle. In the meanwhile, the old Jussieuan Sub-orders Corj-mbiferse, Cyna-racese, and Cichoracese, are unimpaired, and with the Bilabiate division, of the exis
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