OLASS XIX. ORDER II. ] CHRYSANTHEMUM. 1091 
English Botany, t. 601.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 450.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 807.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 148. 
Root somewhat woody, with numerous long branched fibres. 
Stem erect, simple, or branched upwards, angular, furrowed, about 
two feet high, scattered over with compressed hairs. Leaves nume- 
rous, smooth, or nearly so, the radical ones obovate, deeply crenated, 
on long slender footstalks, the intermediate ones obovate oblong, 
erenated, petiolated, and cut at the base, the upper ones oblong, ob- 
tuse, sessile, and embracing the stem, crenated above, cut in a pin- 
natifid manner at the base. lower solitary, terminal, large. 
Involucre linear oblong, obtuse, with a narrow brown membranous 
margin. J'lorets very numerous, those of the ray with an oblong 
white spreading lip, entire, or toothed at the end, those of the disk 
yellow, tubular, the limb five-cleft. Receptacle flat. Fruit obovate, 
black, with white elevated ribs. 
Habitat.—Dry pastures and waste places; frequent. 
Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 
The large white rays of the flowers around the bright yellow disk 
render this not an inelegant plant. It has been used as an expec- 
torant and diuretic, but its medicinal properties are so slight as to 
render it unimportant. Wo 
2. OC. Parthe'nium, Pers. (Fig. 1298.) Common Fever-few. Leaves 
downy, petiolated, bi-pinnatifid, the segments elliptic oblong, obtuse, 
toothed; stem branched, corymbose; involucre downy; fruit with 
terminal acute margin. 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 148 —Pyrethrum, Smith.—English Botany, 
t. 1231.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 452.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 
A, vol. i. p. 307. 
Root tapering. Stem erect, round, striated, about two feet high, 
leafy, branched. Leaves finely downy, bi-pinnatifid, petiolated, dark 
green above, pale beneath, the segments elliptic oblong, obtuse, the 
lobes oblong, toothed. Jnflorescence terminal sub-eorymbose clusters 
of distant flowers. lowers rather small. Jnvolucre more or less 
downy, its scales oblong, obtuse, with a narrow membranous margin. 
Florets of the ray white, the limb short, ovate, obtuse, entire, or 
toothed at the end, those of the disk yellow, tubular, the limb five 
toothed. Receptacle flattish. fruit oblong, furrowed, crowned with 
a narrow membranous margin. 
Habitat. Waste places and under hedges; not unfrequent. 
Biennial; flowering in June and July. 
The leaves of the common Fever-few have, when bruised, a strong 
pungent odonr and a bitter taste; they are commonly used by the 
country people for making tea, which is given as a tonic after fevers, 
inflammations, &c., and a strong infusion is thought to be very useful 
as a stimulant to hysterical people. In Italy it is the common 
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