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d of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat. Gray.

identalis) growing by the waterside; - - so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.

See Capitulum.

Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum.

The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.

A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.

Resembling the capitulum of burdock; covered with forked points.

Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.

A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2.

system of rays. -- Ray flower, or Ray floret (Bot.), one of the marginal flowers of the capitulum in such composite plants as the aster, goldenrod, daisy, and sunflower. They have an elongated, strap-shaped corolla, while the corollas of the disk flowers are tubular and five-lobed. -- Ray point (Geom.), the common p…