The sample has been made with some droplets of TBDA easily deposited on a glass slide without any surface treatment. When the temperature is decreased from the isotropic phase, the smectic A texture appears below 188∘C. The texture is not well ordered as it possesses focal conics made up of ellipses and confocal hyperbolae. The temperature has been changed and after several temperature increases and decreases, the sample shows some very regular focal conics texture, the flower texture shown in Figure 2a. What is surprising is the "quasi-isotropic" orientation of the focal conics with some source at the center of the picture. When the temperature is increased or decreased, a focal conic appears from this point and nucleates toward the boundary of the droplet. The untreated glass provides a quasi-homeotropic anchoring but the successive temperature variations induce a specific texture, i.e. the flower texture, which exists in the bulk of the sample far from the boundaries. Therefore, the untreated glass doesn’t seem to play any fundamental role in the generation of this texture. In another part of the sample, the texture of Figure 2b is visible: we cannot see the boundaries of the sample keeping the same magnification (objective of the microscope times 50).