Genus S5.] 



THISTLE FAMILY. 



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85. CHRYSANTHEMUM L. Sp. PI. 888. 1753. 



Pereunial or annual, mostly erect and branching herbs, with alternate dentate incised 

 or dissected leaves, and large, usually long-pedunclcd heads of both tubular and radiate flow- 

 ers, or rays rarely wanting. Involucre hemispheric or depressed, its bracts appressed, im- 

 bricated in several series, the outer shorter. Receptacle flat, convex or hemispheric, naked. 

 Ray-flowers pistillate, fertile, the rays white, yellow' or rose-colored, entire or toothed. Disk- 

 flowers perfect, fertile, their corollas with terete or 2-winged tubes and 4-5-cleft limbs. An- 

 thers obtuse and entire at the base. Style-branches of the disk-flowers truncate, penicillate. 

 Achenes angled or terete, 5-10-ribbed, those of the ray-flowers commonly 3-angIed. Pappus 

 none, or a scaly cup. [Greek, golden-flower.] 



About 100 species, of wide geogrraphic distributiou in the northern hemisphere. Besides the 

 following. 2 others occur in northwestern arctic America. Our species have white ray-flowers. 

 Heads large, few or solitary at the ends of the stem or branches. 



Stem-leaves linear-spatulate, pinnatel)' incised; weed. i. C. Leucaiilhemum. 



Stem-leaves cuneate-spatulale, toothed or lobed above; arctic. 2. C. arctictim. 



Heads numerous, small, corymbose; plants escaped from gardens. 



Leaves pinnatifid, the segments incised. 3. C. Parlhenium. 



Leaves oblong, serrate. 4. C. Balsaviila. 



White-weed. White or Ox-eye 



I. Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum L,. 

 Daisy. (Fig. 3988.) 



C. Leucanthemum L. Sp. PI. 8SS. 1753. 

 Leucanthemum viilgare Lam. Fl. Fr. 2: 137. 



1778. 



Perennial; stem glabrous, or sparingly pu- 

 berulent, simple or little branched, i°-3° 

 high, often tufted, the branches nearly erect. 

 Basal leaves obovate, oblong, or spatulate, 

 coarsely dentate or incised, narrowed into 

 long slender petioles; stem-leaves mostly 

 sessile and partly clasping, i'-3' long, linear- 

 spatulate or linear, pinnatel}- incised or 

 toothed, the uppermost very small and nearly 

 entire; heads few or solitary, i'-2' broad, on 

 long naked peduncles; rays 20-30, white, 

 spreading, slightly 2-3-toothed; bracts of the 

 involucre oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, mostly 

 glabrous, with scarious margins and a brown 

 line within the margins; pappus none. 



In pastures, meadows and waste places, com- 

 mon throughout our area as a weed, but less 

 abundant in the south and west. Naturalized 

 from Europe. Native also of .\sia. Other Eng- 

 lish names are Dog-, Bull-, Butter-, Big-, Mid- 

 summer-, Moon-, Horse-, Poorland- or Maudlin-Daisy, Dutch Morgan, Moon-flower, Moon-penny, 



Great White Ox-eye, Poverty- weed. White Man's Weed, 

 ,^\\ Herb-Margaret. Rays rarely short and tubular. Disk 



IvvA bright yellow. May-Nov. 



2. Chrysanthemum arcticum L,. Arctic 

 Daisy. (Fig. 3989.) 



Chrysantheynum arctictim L. Sp. PI. 88g. 1753, 

 Leucanthemum arcticum DC. Prodr. 6: 45. 1837. 



Similar to the preceding species, but somewhat 

 fleshy, lower, seldom over IJ2° high. Leaves cune- 

 ate-spatulate, iS"-3' long, crenate or cleft at the 

 apex, narrowed into a long tapering entire base, or the 

 lower into slender petioles, slightly clasping at the 

 base, the uppermost few, small, linear and nearly en- 

 tire; heads solitary or few, long-peduncled, l'-i' 

 broad; rays 20-30, white; bracts of the involucre ob- 

 long, obtuse, brown, or with broad brown scarious 

 margins, usually pubescent; pappus none. 



Coast of Hudson Bay to .\laska. Also in arctic 

 Europe and Asia. Summer. 



