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40. BELLIS, DAISY. (The old Latin name of the Daisy, from 

 prettv.) (Fl. spring and summer.) 



B. integl'ifolia, WESTERN WILD DAISV : in open grounds from Kentucky 

 S. \V., ha- branching spreading sterns 4' -10' long, bearing some lanceolate- 

 oblong or spatulate leaves, and terminal slender-peduncled heads with pale 

 blue-purple rays. (T) 



B. perennis, TRUE or ENGLISH DAISY, cult, from Eu., mostly in double- 

 flowered varieties, i. e. with many or all the disk-flowers clumped into rays, or, 

 in the common quilled form, all into tubes (pink or white) : in the natural stale 

 the centre is yellow, the rays white and more or less purplish or crimson- tipped 

 underneath ; head solitary on a short scape ; leaves spatulate or obovate, all 

 clustered at the root. 11 



41. ACHILLEA, YARROW, SNKEZEWORT. (Named after A 

 Leafy-stemmed, with small heads in corymb.-,. 11 



A. Millefolium, COMMON Y. or MILFOIL, abounds over fields and hills, 

 10' - 20' high, with leaves twice pinnately parted into very slender and crowded 

 linear 3-5-cleft divisions, heads crowded in a close Hat corymb, with 4 or 5 

 short rays, white, sometimes rose-colored : all summer. 



A. Ptarmica, SNEEZEAVORT. Run wild from Eu. in a few places, cult, in 

 gardens, especially a full-double variety, which is pretty, tl. in autumn ; leaves 

 simple, lance-linear, sharply cut-serrata; heads in a loose corymb, with 8-12 

 or more rather long bright white rays. 



42. MARUTA, MAYWEED. (Meaning of the name uncertain.) Native 

 of the Old World. 



M. Cotula, or ANTHEMIS COTCLA, the COMMON MAYWEED, along road- 

 sides, especial! v E. ; low, strong-scented and acrid, with leaves thrice pinnatcly 

 divided into slender leaflets or lobes, rather small heads terminating the branches, 

 with white rays and yellow centre ; all late summer. (T) 



j43. ANTHEMIS, CHAMOMILE. (Ancient. Greek name, from the pro- 

 fusion of flowers.) Natives of Old World : n. summer. Peduncles bearing 

 solitary or very few heads. 



A. arvensis, FIELD C. Resembles Mayweed and grows in similar places, 

 but rare, is not unpleasantly scented, has fertile rays and a minute border of 

 pa] (pus. (T) 



A. nobilis, GARDEN C., yield- the Chamomile-flowers of the apothecaries, 

 spreads over the ground, very finely divided foliage pleasantly strong-scented ; 

 rays white ; pappus none. 2/ 



A. tinctoria, YELLOW C., is cult, for ornament, but hardly common : 

 2 - 3 high, with pinnately divided and again pinuatih'd or cut-toothed leaves, 

 and heads as large as those of Whiteweed, with golden-yellow flowers, or tho 

 rays sometimes white. 2/ 



44. CHRYSANTHEMUM, including LEUCANTIIEMTM and PYRE- 

 THRUM. (Name means golden flowers in Greek; but they are of various 

 colors.) All natives of Old World. 



1. LEUCANTIIEMCM or WHITEWEED and FEVERFEW: the ray-flowers 

 white, those of the centre mostly yellow. 11 



C. Leucanthemum, or LEIT \vrii KMIIM YCLGARE, the too common 

 WHITEWEED or OX-EYE DAISY, tilling meadows and pastures, and difficult to 

 eradicate; has stems nearly simple and erect from the creeping base or root- 

 stock, bearing cut-toothed or slightly pinnatih'd leaves below (the lowest s|iatu- 

 late, upper partly clasping), the naked .summit bearing the single showy h'v.d, 

 in early summer. H 



C. (or L.) Parthenium, or I'YRETHIU-M PAKTHEN-IPM, FEVER; i \\ 

 Cult, in old gardeu>, and running wild; with branching lcaf\ -u-m- l-3 



