39. COMPOSITE. 107 



Fl. -heads large, terminal, solitary, bright yellow. Scales of the 

 involucre broadly ovate, outer ones leafy, reflexed and downy. 

 Florets of the ray long and linear. Achenes angular, smooth. 



An escape from cultivation. " About the ruins of Mugdock Castle," Hopk. 

 ' ' Banks of the Avon at Bamcluith, " Pair. (E) P. 7 8. 



32. PULICARIA. Flea-Bane. 



P. DYSENTERICA, Gsertn. Stem erect, branched, 12 18 in. 

 high. Le. oblong, waved, clasping the stem with rounded auricles; 

 under side of the le. and stem woolly. Fl. -heads axillary and 

 terminal, bright yellow. Scales of the involucre narrow. Florets 

 of the ray numerous, longer than the disk. Pappus of the outer 

 row like a small membranous cup. 



Very rare. " Struey rocks, Arran," Lands. (E) P. 79. 



33. B^LLIS. Daisy, Gowan. 



33. PERENNIS, L. Le. all radical, spathulate, obovate, crenate, 

 one-ribbed. Scape with a single flower-head; disk yellow, ray 

 white, tinged with pink or crimson. 



Found everywhere, and in flower nearly all the year round. (B) P. 



34. CHRYSANTHEMUM. Ox-eye-Daisy. 



1. C. LEUCANTHEMUM, L. Great White Ox-eye-Daisy. Stem 

 erect, simple, or slightly branched, 1 2 ft. high. Radical le. 

 obovate, tapering into a long petiole, coarsely toothed. Stem le. 

 sessile, oblong, blunt, cut at the base or pinnatifid. Fl. -heads 

 very large (nearly 3 in. across), solitary disk yellow, ray white. 



Very common. On banks and in pastures. (B) P. 6 8. 



2. C. SEGETUM, L. Corn- Marigold, Yellow-Ox-eye, Gule. Stem 

 erect, branches spreading, smooth, 12 15 in. high. Lower le. 

 obovate, stalked, stem ones amplexicaul, deeply cut at the top, 

 with a few teeth at the base, somewhat glaucous beneath. Fl.- 

 heads terminal, solitary large ; all the Jlorets deep golden yellow. 



Frequent. Corn and potato fields. (B) A. 6 9. Near Cathcart and Pollok- 

 shaws. 



35. MATRICARIA. Wild Chamomile, Feverfew. 



1. M. PARTHENIUM, L. Common Feverfew. Stem branched, 

 12 ft. high. Le. pinnate, the segments ovate or oblong, bi- 

 piiinatifid and toothed. Ped. very much branched, corymbose. 

 Fl. -heads numerous; disk yellow, ray white. Achenes with a 

 jagged membranous pappus. 



Frequent. Waste places, often near farm-houses. (B) P. 7 9. Banks of 

 Clyde, near Cambuslang; near Carmunnock; Cathcart Gourock Cumbrae; 

 Bute and Arran. 



