ANTHEMIS. 
specially fine strips, each delicately pointed. A. taygetea is rather 
smaller. 
A. aeizoon is the beautiful thing that masquerades in lists (even 
of Kew) as Achillea serbica, or Achillea ageratifolia, or Achillea aeizoon 
—all these names being but the Betsy, Bessy, and Bet to the one and 
original Elizabeth of Anthemis aeizoon. It is, anyhow, a most attrac- 
tive species, forming masses of low silver-grey rosettes, with very 
narrow leaves, finely saw-edged; and an abundance of snow-pure 
daisies on 5-inch stems, with brilliant broad white rays and a whitish 
eye; it is quite easy and permanent in a dry well-drained sunny 
place in good light soil or moraine—the treatment, indeed, indicated 
for all the choice species, of which this is perhaps the queen. 
A. aetnensis. See under A. montana. 
A. alpina has the usual single Marguerite to a stem. A. mucronu- 
lata is quite near, but much looser in habit, with a few particularly 
broad short rays to the flower. 
A. anatolica is like a diminished version of A. montana, with the 
cup into which the florets are gathered conical instead of rounded. 
A. Barbeyana, a beautiful species from the Alps of Aetolia, forms 
a dense cushion of notably finely-cut, silky-grey foliage, cut comb- 
wise along the stems; while the white daisies of the family are 
carried in close heads a from four to seven in number. 
A. Biebersteinit is often seen in gardens, but is a rather coarse 
weed like a Camomile, with profusion of bright golden Marguerites 
lonely on longish stalks. It is all silky-hairy, and comes from 
the mountains of the Levant. A. B. Marshalliana, pectinata, Rudol- 
phiana, are different varieties of this. 
A. carpatica, from the whole range of the Southerly Alps from the 
Pyrenees to the Carpathians in the upmost stony places, is often con- 
fused with A. montana, from which, however, it may be known by 
having its leaves cut into irregular and much broader jags, much 
fewer than in A. montana. Its flowers also—big single Chrysanthe- | 
mums—are always lonely on their stems; its habit is much neater, 
and its inclinations much more ambitiously higher-alpine. 
A. cassia is a dense close silver-silky tuft ; the leaves being slit on 
either side into long, quite narrow sharp strips, continuing down the 
leaf-stalk ; the stems are tall, about 12 or 15 inches high, often 
branching, and carrying, at the end of each, one nobly large flower, 
as big as in Chrysanthemum maximum. From alpine elevations of 
Mount Cassius in Northern Syria, and greatly to be desired. 
A. cinerea, from the Balkan range of Rilo, has a hard stock and 
forms a mass of ash-grey downy leaves, which are cut into short oblong 
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