A REMARKABLE DAISY 319 



flowers. One was found last year that had a 

 faint shade of pink, and seed was saved. A pink 

 Shasta daisy is therefore in prospect. 



There are other species of daisies, however, 

 that show color variation. The whiteness of the 

 oxeye daisies both of Europe and America, and 

 of the French marguerites, seems so typical that 

 at first thought it appears anomalous that any 

 daisy should depart from the traditional color. 



But, on the other hand, our studies of flowers 

 have shown us that color is the least fixed char- 

 acteristic of the floral envelope, and, reasoning 

 from analogy, it would be rather surprising if 

 there were not races of daisies, more or less 

 closely related to the parents of the Shasta, that 

 have colored blossoms. 



The Paris daisy (Chrysanthemum frutescens) 

 has one lemon yellow variety; and there is a 

 so-called daisy, indigenous to South Africa, that 

 has blossoms of a rather brilliant orange. This 

 so-called African daisy (Dimorphotheca) , how 

 ever, is not very closely related to the Chrysan- 

 themum. The reader will recall a chapter of the 

 first volume in which the story of this flower is 

 told. It will be recalled that there is a closely 

 allied species of Dimorphotheca from the same 

 region of South Africa that differs from the 

 orange one, chiefly in the fact that it is white. 



