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The sun flower as a type of flowering plants by Anne B. Jewett, 1890

The Sun Flower as a Type of Flowering Plants by Anne B. Jewett, 1890, Page 60

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57 [underlined] Inflorescence. [/underlined] In the well known Sun-Flower, we have the structure characteristic of the whole order compositae. - 1st The flowers are associated in a Capitulum or head, or to be more concise, are all borne upon a broadly expanded disk the enlarged top of the stem, The disk or central flowers alone are fertile, the ray or marginal florets being [devitute?] of both pistil and stamens. Each floret is
 
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