FEVEBFEW. 



'Matricaria Parthenium. Nat. Ord., 

 Composite. 



O many plants present to the un- 

 trained eyes features not dis- 

 similar in many respects to those 

 of the present plant that the 

 uninitiated may be excused if 

 they hesitate to affirm offhand 

 that they know the feverfew 

 directly they see it. The com- 

 posite order comprises in almost 

 every region of the world an 

 enormous number of species. 

 The English plants alone are 

 placed in over forty genera, 

 and some of these in turn, as 

 Hieracium, contain many species. However they may 

 differ in minor points, the one great feature in which 

 they agree is the composite flower-head, each so-called 

 flower of the ordinary observer being in reality the 

 aggregation of a considerable number into one head. 

 In many the florets of the disk and of the ray are 

 alike yellow the hawkweeds, the goafs-beard, and the 

 dandelion are examples of this ; and in others, as in 

 the present plant, the centre is yellow, and the sur- 

 rounding rays are white the ox-eye and the daisy are 



