THE DAISY FAMILY. 313 



56. Gkeat Ox-eye Daisy — [Chrysanthemum Leueanthemum. 

 Among mowing-grass, when the fields are crowded, and upon rail- 

 way slopes, common everywhere. Abundant and very luxuriant about 

 Timperley and Northen. Fl. June, July. 



Curtis, iii. 354 ; E. B. ix. 601. 

 For an account of this magnificent flower, the Goliath of the field daisies, see 

 " Walks and Wild-flowers," chap. Yiii. About Levenshulme it is called " Moon- 

 penny." 



57. CoEN Marigold — [Chrysanthemum segetum.) 

 In ploughed fields and among corn, a shewy but noxious weed. 

 Formerly very plentiful at Bowdon, but now much reduced by the 

 cleaner farming, which will soon render the garden the only refuge 

 both of this and of many other original attendants of the cerealia. 

 Fl. June — August. Annual. 



Curtis, iii. 424 ; E. B. viii. 540 ; Baxter, iv. 306. 



58. Fever-few — [Pyrethrum Parthenium.) 



Hedges and waste places, but generally near houses or gardens, and 



hence doubtfully wild. Sandy Lane, Bowdon ; Ashley ; Broughton. 



Fl. July. 



E. B. xviii. 1231; Baxter, i. 20. 



Very common in old-fashioned gardens, especially in the trim enclosures sur- 

 rounding wayside cottages. The whole plant has a powerful but not unpleasant 

 odour, though said to be offensive to bees. 



59. May- WEED — [Pyrethrum inodorum.) 

 Waste ground and on the borders of fields, common everywhere, 

 Fl. August till late in autumn. 



Curtis, iii. 525 ; E. B. x. 676. 



60. False Chamomile — [Matricaria ChamomiUa.) 

 Cornfields and waste ground, rare. Cornfields near Rostherne. 

 Old Trafibrd. Gorton. Near Arden Hall, Fl, August. Annual. 

 Curtis, ii. 355 ; E. B. xviii. 1232 ; Baxter v. 335. 



61. True Chamomile — [Anthemis nohilis.) 

 By the roadside near Turner's Print-works, Hayfield, sparingly ; 

 and the same upon Monton Green, on the contrary side from the 

 chapel, where it was first noticed by Mr. John Shaw. Twenty-five 

 years since it was abundant there, but the Green being free pasture, 

 and incessantly cropped, as well as ptired for the sake of its turf, by 

 1849 it had nearly disappeared. Since then a little has come up 



