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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 61

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58. placed before a bract as flowers in the axles of leaves, but in contracted form. The calyx consists of two or three dry sharply pointed scales, commonly termed the crown or pappus. The whole mass of florets is encircled by a close [involucre?] of leafy bracts. All the flowers are yellow. [underlined] Fig. 32. [underlined] Plate XII is a disk flower surrounded by four scales and showing its adjustment on the seed upon which it is borne,
 
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