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basal leaves are coarsely and unequally toothed or even cleft, the 
slightly broadened bases usually fimbriate; the lower cauline leaves 
are oblanceolate, shorter-petioled, with irregular coarse teeth and 
lacerate broadened bases; the middle and upper cauline are narrowly 
oblong or narrowly oblanceolate, with irregular teeth, and with deeply 
lacerate broadened bases, and the very uppermost are linear or 
almost filiform and greatly reduced in length. With slight variation 
in the degree of toothing, practically all the American material exhib- 
its these general tendencies of the foliage, though, as would be 
expected, the plants vary extremely in size and development accord- 
ing to the nature of the soil in which they have grown. 
In July, 1902, however, while visiting the shores of the Baie des 
Chaleurs in the County of Bonaventure, Quebec, Mr. Emile F. 
Williams and the writer noticed that the Daisy of that district had 
leaves of quite different outline from those with which we were famil- 
iar in New England. ‘The long-petioled spatulate-obovate basal 
leaves were closely and almost regularly crenate, the petioles with 
slightly broadened rarely fimbriate bases; the lower cauline shorter- 
petioled broadly spatulate leaves had regularly crenate or dentate 
blades, entire broad petiolar portions and somewhat coarsely toothed 
bases, the middle and upper cauline were oblong or broadly oblance- 
olate, with coarse subascending teeth much shorter than in the New 
England plant. 
A study of this chrysanthemum from the Bonaventure region shows 
it to be quite identical with the European material in the Gray Herba- 
rium passed by Nees von Esenbeck, Schultz Bipontinus, Klatt, and 
other eminent European students of the Compositae as typical 
Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, L. (Leucanthemum vulgare, Lam., 
Tanacetum Leucanthemum, Schz. Bip.). The specimens further match 
such representative plates of the European Chrysanthemum Leucan- 
themum as those of Reichenbach (Icones Florae Germanicae, xvi. t. 
97, fig. 1) and Thomé (Flora von Deutschland, iv. t. 584). This 
broad-leaved plant, the common CArysanthemum Leucanthemum of 
Europe, is apparently little known in America. Besides the plant col- 
lected in Bonaventure, Quebec, the only American material seen by 
the writer is an uncharacteristic sheet from St. John’s, Newfoundland, 
and two individuals which have recently appeared in a lawn on the 
estate of Oakes Ames, at North Easton, Massachusetts. 
In attempting to identify the plant which abounds in fields so gen- 
