448SYNGENESIA— POL.-SUPERF.Chrysanthemum. 



B. n. 93. Hall Hist. v. 1.39. 



B. sylvestris minor. Rail S'jn. 184. Ger. Em. 636. f. Fuchs. Hist. 



147./. /c. 80./. Dalech. Hist. 855. f. 

 B. minor. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 263./. 

 Eellidis species. Camer. Epit. 656./. 

 Primula veris. Trag. Hist. 161./ 

 Solidago. Brunf. Herb. ti. 2. 25./. 

 Common Daisie. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 19./ 2. 



In pastures and meadows every wliere. 



Perennial. March — November. 



Root of numerous fibres, branching at the crown and somewhat 

 creeping. Leaves numerous, all radical, depressed, obovate, 

 crenate, single-ribbed, deep green, slightly hairy ; tapering at 

 the base. Flower-stalks several, radical, ascending, simple, 

 round, hollow, hairy, entirely leafless, each bearing a solitary 

 Jlower, most open in bright weather, yellow or orange-coloured 

 in the disk, the white rays beautifully tinged with crimson. The 

 receptacle is hollow, and remarkably convex, or pointed. Seeds 

 sometimes fringed at the sides. 



Double, as well as proliferous. Daisies, red, white or speckled, are 

 common in gardens, and the proliferous variety is now and then 

 found wild. Domestic cattle scarcely touch this plant. Not- 

 withstanding its beauty, and its celebration by poets, the Daisy 

 is thought a blemish or intruder in neat grass-.plats, and can be 

 overcome by perpetual stubbing only. 



405. CHRYSANTHEMUM. Ox-eye. 



Ltnw. Ge«. 432. Jmss. 183. Fl.Br. 898. Toiirn.t. 280. Gcertn. 



t.\68. 

 Matricaria. Lam. t.678.f.i—6. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 404. 



Common Cal. hemispherical, closely imbricated, with nu- 

 merous, roundish, convex scales, membranous and di- 

 lated at their margin, especially the innermost, which 

 terminate in more or less of a dry, filmy, often jagged, 

 appendage. Cor. compound, radiant ; Jlorets of the disk 

 very numerous, pei'fect, tubular, level-topped, with 5 

 equal spreading segments ; those of the radius more than 

 12, ligulate, spreading, elliptic-oblong, with 3 terminal 

 teeth. Filam. in the tubular florets only, capillary, short. 

 Anth. forming a notched tube. Germ, in all the florets 

 obovate. Sti/le a little prominent. Stigmas spreading, 

 oblong, bluntish, generally uniform. Seed-vessel none, 

 except the dry, spreading calyx, a little inflexed at the 

 margin. Seed in all the florets oblong, or obovate, stri- 



