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The flower dries very badly. Common on the mountain - 

 pastures of the Jura and the Alps. 



The Erigerons^ some of which resemble the Aster in 

 colour, are smaller, and not nearly so pretty. Their purple 

 has more of rose in it. 



46. Chrysanthemum, Pyrethrum, 

 Leucanthemium. 



(PLATE XXVII.) 



By all these names is the plant known, which we may 

 call the daisy of the high mountains, and which Mr. 

 Robinson describes as reminding him of " a daisy with its 

 petals down in bad weather ;" only our daisies generally 

 screw their petals together and hold them up in the wet, 

 under which circumstances those of C. Alpinum (Fig. 46) 

 look much more like a turn-down collar. It is larger than 

 our Daisy, being about an inch across, with no tinge of 

 pink, and more resembles the Chamomile in its growth ; 

 but the plant is stouter, the leaves are more solid and less 

 finely divided, and the centre is yellow, not greenish-yellow. 

 The calyx is imbricated with brownish scaly edges on the 

 segments. It is very common on the mountain-heights, but 



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