CORN UAmGOLD. —r7rr?/.sm^i/iemm?i 

 segetum. 



Class Syngenesia. Order Superflua. Nat. Ord. Composite. 

 Compound Flowers. 



The bright Corn Marigold is one of the largest 

 and gayest of the starry golden blossoms which 

 are so nnmerous durmg July and August. 

 It is often called Yellow Ox-eye, Golden Corn- 

 flower, and Yellow Corn, and is the Gold or 

 Goides of the early English poets. It is about 

 a foot high, and is frequent enough in the 

 corn-fields of our native land to prove, in 

 some districts, a very troublesome weed to the 

 agi'iculturist, sometimes almost exterminating 

 the whole crop, on which much labour and cost 

 have been bestowed. In many countries of 

 Europe, as in France and Germany, it is, how- 

 ever, far more abundant than in ours. It is 

 a very handsome plant, and would doubtless 

 have become a favourite garden-flower, but 

 that cultivation never renders it double. 



We have but one other wild species of the 

 Chrysanthemum genus, and that is the common 

 flower of almost every dry pasture, the Ox-eye 



