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*C. conoxAEirir, L. Cultivated in Ava anil Promo. 



C. lioxhiiryhii, Desf. 



I'ljrethrum Ind'uum, lloxb. non L. 



Flowor-licads large, ou long terminal or almost terminal peduncles. Hay yellow. 



Sub-genus Pykktuuum. 



Achenes oblong, irregularly ;!-5-corncred. Piippm scarcely any. 



*C. Inbicum, L. Ava. Cultivated. 



C. tripartituiii, Sweet. 

 C. Cliinenne, Sab. 



Flower-heads numerous, on sleniler peduncles, in terminal corymbs. Hays 

 yellow, or in garden varieties variously (purple to wliite and urauge) coloured. 



C. FlEN'ICULACEUM, L. (M.). 



Of the C/iri/sanfheiiium hucantheinuin, L., Trior' remarks: " iloon Daisy, a large 

 daisy-like flower, resembling the pictures of a full nioou, the type of a. class of i)lants, 

 which, on the doctrine of signatures, were exhibited in uterine complaints, and dedi- 

 cated in pagan times to the goddess of the Moon and regulator of monthly periods, 

 Artemis, whom Horsley (in Hosea ix. 10) would identitV with Isis, the goddess of the 

 Egyptians, with Juno Luciua, and with Eileithuia,'- a deity who had special charge 

 over the functions of women, an office in Itoman Catlu^lic mythology assigned to 

 Mary Magdalene and .Margaret." 



For the information of non-Catholic readers it ma}- be as well to add : " It 

 is necessary to observe that the monks in the middle ages mixed up with the story 

 of the Magdalene, as recorded in Scriptui'e, that of another St. Mary, whose early 



life was passed in a course of debauchery Her penance and pardon were 



a favourite subject for the legends of all Western Europe. The attributes of the 

 impure Goddess of the Egyptians, Isis, and of the Greek Artemis, and the Koman 

 Juno Lucina, have been transferred in lloraan Catholic times to this saint and her 

 counterpart, St. Margaret" {I.e. p. 151). 



X X Fhncrr-hrad.s /ic/tro(/ainon.i, lUxcuid ( Cufidftc). 

 -j- Floref.i of (lie circui/i/crence few. Achenes oborate or ruundcd af ihe (op. 



AiiTKiiisiA, Linnaua. 



Inrolucral bnicfs in few rows. Achaics almost terete or compn'ssed, 2- or thinly 

 many-ribbed or without ribs, llerbs or undershrubs, the leaves dissect to simph'. 

 FloiVfr-heads small, in racemes or panicled racemes. 

 Section Dli.iCUXCULUS. 



Floirer-hrads hcterogaitioii.i, tin' raij-llorets in a single roiv and female, the disk- 

 florets hise.cHal, but sterile by aburtwn of the oraries. 



A. PAiiViFLORA, lloxb. Pluuno and Xat-toung in Martaban {fide Jlasou). 



A. (jliibrata, Wall. 



More or less glabrous, the lower leaves simple, obovate-oblong, toothed at tlu' apex. 



' Popular Niimos of Britisli I'lants, ]>. l.')0. 



- Among the Hoiniiiis wu know llilliva was a mere title of Diana in her capacity of Lucina, a.s in 

 the Carnieu Sa'culare — 



Kite maturo.s aperire partus 



Lcuis, Ilithya, tuerc niatrcs, 



Sive tu Lucina prohas vocaii 



Scu (icnitalis. 



But in the Homeric poems the functions of the Roman Lucina were as.sigue(l to tile Ilitliyiic, 'daughters 

 ot Juno,' I.e. ministers of her functions^ 



'Hs 5' ot' Uv ajdiyoviray fXV ^^^"^ o^'' yt^i'cuKa, 

 ^ptfjiit, t6 t€ irpoifiiri uoyoaTiKot EiXiiGutat, 



Jims XI. 2G9. 



