Composite? Chrysanthem nm. 255 



flowers, according- to the variety. A native of the South of 

 Europe. 



6. Ch. carinatum, syn. Ch. tricolor (fig. 143). Another 

 annual species, superior to the last as an ornamental plant. 



Fig. 143. Chrysanthemum carinatum. (J nat. size.) 



Foliage glaucous. Flowers normally white and yellow with a 

 brown centre, but there are several improved garden varieties, 

 including double ones, yellow, crimson, or purple, or one of 

 these colours with a brown centre. A native of North Africa. 



Dimorphotheca pluvialis, Cape Marigold, is a pretty annual. 

 Leaves narrow, sinuately lobed ; florets of the ray white within, 

 violet without ; disk brown. 



Athanasia dnnua is a native of Barbary growing about 

 2 feet high, and valuable on account of the long duration 

 of its clustered rayless yellow flower-heads. Stem furrowed. 

 Leaves fleshy, pinnatifidly divided into linear segments. 



