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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of composite plants of the tribe Helianthoideæ, type of the subtribe Lagasceæ, remarkable in having only a single flower in a head, but the heads themselves aggregated into a subglobose glomerule, and the proper involucre united into a 5-cleft tube.

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