1092 CHRYSANTHEMUM. [CLASS XIX. ORDER IT. 
practice to put it in the rooms and on the beds of women after their 
confinements ; and it is considered valuable in preventing the accession 
of fever. 
3. C. inodo'rum, Linn. (Fig. 1299.) Corn Fever-few, or Scentless 
Mayweed. Leaves sessile, bi- or tri-pinnatifid, the segments capil- 
lary ; stem branched, spreading ; receptacle hemispherical ; fruit with 
an entire border. 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 148.—Pyrethrum.—English Botany, t. 676— 
English Flora, vol. iii. p. 453 —Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. 
p. 307. 
B. maritimum. (Fig. 1300.) Leaves more fleshy, stem more 
spreading. 
Matricaria maritima, Linn.—Pyrethrum, Smith.—English Botany, 
t. 979.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 453. 
Root tapering, the whole plant almost without odour. Stem 
angular, striated, branched and spreading, smooth. Leaves sessile, 
bi- or tri-pinnatifid, the segments bristle-shaped, terminating in a 
small fine point. Flowers rather large, terminal, on naked pedun- 
cles. Involucre scales oblong, obtuse, with a thin brown membranous 
margin. Floreis numerous, those of the ray with a long linear obtuse 
entire or toothed limb, spreading, white, veiny, those of the disk 
tubular, yellow, five-cleft. Receptacle hemispherical, or conical, 
naked. Fruit oblong, angular, crowned with a narrow entire mem- 
branous border. 
Habitat.—Cultivated fields, road sides; common, especially in a 
gravelly soil; 8. near the sea. 
Annual; flowering in August and September. 
x Florets all yellow. 
4. C. sege'tum, Linn. (Fig. 1301.) Corn Marigold, Yellow Ox-eye. 
Leaves glaucous green, the upper ones trifid, toothed, sessile, and 
embracing the stem, the lower petiolated; fruit with an obsolete 
margin. 
English Botany, t. 540.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 451.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed 4. vol. i. p. 307.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 148. 
Root small, tapering, the whole plant smooth, of a glaucous green. 
Stem erect, striated, round, more or less branched, about a foot high. 
Leaves numerous, oblong lanceolate, three-cleft, or variously cut and 
toothed, sessile, and embracing the stem, the radical ones much 
longer, with a somewhat winged petiole. lowers numerous, rather 
large, a bright golden yellow, solitary, terminal, the peduncle swollen 
upwards. Involucre with oblong obtuse scale, having a broad thin 
brown membranous margin. /orets numerous, all yellow, those of 
the ray with an obovate obtuse notched or toothed spreading limb, 
those of the disk small, tubular, five-cleft. Receptacle convex. 
Fruit obovate, compressed, grooved, smooth. 
