Composite? Chrysanthemum, 



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alluded to above, with curious elongated often very narrow 



florets. 



2. Ch. Parthbnium (Pyrethrum). Feverfew. This plant 

 was formerly cultivated as a medicinal herb, and has become 



Fig. 139. Chrysanthemum Siuense, 

 large-flowered variety. (J nat. size.) 



Fig. 140. Chrysanthemum Sinense, 

 Pompon var. (J nat. tize.) 



naturalised in some parts of the country. It is from 1 to 2 

 feet high, with the leaves pinnately divided into broad lobed 

 segments. Flowers about 6 lines in diameter with a white ray. 

 We mention this merely to introduce the double-flowered 

 variety, eximium ; and one with yellow foliage, aureum, exten- 

 sively employed in bedding under the name of Golden Feather. 

 3. Ch. roseum (fig. 141). This may be classed with the so- 

 called Florists' flowers, having produced a great many beautiful 

 varieties which now figure in our principal catalogues under 

 distinct names. In the typical form it grows about 18 inches 

 high, with beautifully cut foliage and flower-heads about 2 

 inches in diameter, yellow in the centre, with a rose or pink 



