27. COMPOSITE. 



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tlie ray-flowers are ieinalo and fertile; receptaele lioney- 

 coinbed. tlie walls of the pits extended in erect bristles or 

 teeth; akenes silkv, o ribbed on the back. 2 of the lateral 

 ribs extended in wings and incurved upon the central one, 

 .so as to give the appearance of a 3-celled fruit, crowned by 

 a pappus of scales. 



1. Arctotis stoechcidi- 

 folicl) Jiergius. Perennial, 

 softly white-tomentx)se all 

 over ; stems prostrate, ro<jt- 

 ing; leaves 3-nerved. tapering 

 at base, lowei- ones lyrate, 

 upper ones oblong to lanceo- 

 late, sinuate-toothed ; heads 

 large, showy, solitary on long 

 peduncles ; outer involucral 

 jjracts with spreading, linear, 

 tonientose points, the inner- 

 most with a broad, blunt, 

 membranous tip ; central 

 flowers dark-coloured rays 

 cream-colored above with vel- 

 low base; "pappus scales 7-8, 

 pink, oblong, in 2 rows; in- 

 nermo.st central flowers sterile 

 and without pappus. 



Sandhills near Grange. 

 Sept. -Jan. — South Africa. 



avoma. 



R. 



Br., a 

 perennial with large 

 flowers, is an escape 



Arctotis stoechadifolia. 



from gardens in Waterfall 



(rdzoiiia 

 small 



showy _ 



Gully. Heads solitary on peduncles about as long as the 

 pinnatisect leaves, which have 7-11 narrow segments rough- 

 hairy above and white-tomentose below ; rays orange, dark- 

 brown and often with a wliite eye at base. — South Africa. 



7. C[TRVSANTHEMU>r. L. 



(Greek chrysos, gold, and aiithcmon, flower.) 



Involucre broad with unequal overlapping bracts more 

 or less scarious and tianspaient ; receptacle somewhat con- 

 vex ; central flowers tubular, bisexual, ray-flowers female; 

 style-branches truncate. 



Ray yellow; leaves deeply cut ('. coroiuiriiiiii 1 



Ray white; leaves toothed or lobed C. Leucanthf iiium 2 



1. Chrysanthemum coronarium, L. Summer 

 ^'hrysanfhennim. Erect, 'glabrous, strongly scented annual 

 with branching stems ; leaves bipinnatisect with oblong 

 segments and linear-lanceolate lobes, sessile and auricled 

 at base; heads large, solitary, on the thickened, hollow 

 ends of the branches ; central flower.s yellow, rays about 14, 

 broad, orange at baise and white or yellow in the upper part; 



