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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of dicotyledonous, sympetalous plants of the order Campanulales, the ragweed family: chiefly distinguished from the Asteraceæ, in which it is included by many authors, by having the stamens (usually 5) separate, or the anthers merely connivent, so as not to be truly syngenesious.

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