A Freak Daisy 



The tendency to variation induced in the progenitors of 

 the Shasta daisy through hybridization, is manifested in a. 

 great variety of ways. Here is a specimen in which the ray flowers 

 are multiplied in number, and some of them curiously altered 

 in form. Such a specimen as this might become the pro- 

 genitor of an altogether double Shasta, the ray 

 flowers gradually supplanting the seed-bear- 

 ing organs at the center of the flower. 



