Compositae

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• Advance has been along two lines, markedly in relation to insect-pollination, one of which has culminated in the hypogynous epipetalous bicarpellate forms with dorsiventral often large and loosely arranged flowers such as occur in Scrophulariaceae, and the other in the epigynous bicarpellate small-flowered families of which the Compositae represent the most elaborate type. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
• The pistil consists of a stigma supported on the style; but in some Compositae, the male florets, which of course cannot be fecundated, have a pistil, which is in a rudimentary state, for it is not crowned with a stigma; but the style remains well developed, and is clothed with hairs as in other compositae, for the purpose of brushing the pollen out of the surrounding anthers. On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 13 (historical)
• The pistil consists of a stigma supported on a style; but in some Compositae, the male florets, which of course cannot be fecundated, have a rudimentary pistil, for it is not crowned with a stigma; but the style remains well developed and is clothed in the usual manner with hairs, which serve to brush the pollen out of the surrounding and conjoined anthers. Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb
• They showed us a plant of the compositae order, twenty feet high (the Eupatorium laevigatum of Lamarck), the rose of Belveria, * celebrated for the brilliancy of its purple flowers, and the dragon’s-blood of this country, which is a kind of croton not yet described. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
• The answer would be, as it seems to me, that important morphological characters, such as the position of the ovules and the relative position of the stamens to the ovarium (hypogynous, perigynous, etc.) are sometimes variable in the same species, as I incidentally mention when treating of the ray-florets in the Compositae and Umbelliferae; and I do not see how Nageli could maintain that differences in such characters prove an inherent tendency towards perfection. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
• With the Compositae, swarms of small Cruciferae occur; that with purple flowers and pinnatisect leaves being the most common. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
• Advance has been along two lines, markedly in relation to insect-pollination, one of which has culminated in the hypogynous epipetalous bicarpellate forms with dorsiventral often large and loosely arranged flowers such as occur in Scrophulariaceae, and the other in the epigynous bicarpellate small-flowered families of which the Compositae represent the most elaborate type. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
• Advance has been along two lines, markedly in relation to insect-pollination, one of which has culminated in the hypogynous epipetalous bicarpellate forms with dorsiventral often large and loosely arranged flowers such as occur in Scrophulariaceae, and the other in the epigynous bicarpellate small-flowered families of which the Compositae represent the most elaborate type. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
• The families including the most weed species were Gramineae, Cyperaceae, Compositae, Scrophulariaceae, Alismataceae and Lythraceae.
• _Kureel_, and Ukko, Calotropis Hamiltonii; _Bheirs_ shrubby; one of the most abundant plants is the _Joussa_ or prickly Leguminosa, with the habit of Fagonia; some of the saline loving Compositae, No. 51, frutex 2 - Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries