244 kSYNGEN. POLYGAM. SUPERF. Bellis. 



on both sides, fetid. Fl. mostly solitary, soon overtopped by 

 other flower-branches, erect, hemispherical, dull, pale yellow. 

 Rccept. tuberculated . Cal. hairy. Anth. bristles very small. 



CINERA'RIA. Flea-wort. 



C integrifolia. Mountain FL Flowers simply and 

 imperfectly umbellate, with several spear-shaped brac- 

 teas resembling an involucre. Root-leaves elliptical, 

 obscurely toothed ; the rest spear-shaped ; all shaggy. 

 Stem unbranched. E. B. 152. Sb. ^55. C. cam- 

 pestris. H. L. 7-5. 



Clialky downs. Sm. * * Downs of Dorsetshire, and Oxfordshire. 

 Hooker. Mungewell, on Grime's Dyke. Burford Downs. Sb. 

 Downs, near tStreatley, Berks, Bx. 



Per. Mai/. 



Root long, thready. Root-Is. spreading on the ground, egg-shaped, 

 battledore-shaped, or inversely egg-shaped, lengthened out at 

 the base, generally bent back at the margin. Ste?n-h\ alternate. 

 Stem six to twelve inches, erect, simple, furrowed, woolly. CaL- 

 scales with a membranous margin. Florets of the ray generally 

 broadest in the middle. FL bright yellow, three or four. 



BELLIS. Daisy.' 



B. perennis. Common D. Root creeping. Flower- 

 stalk immediately from the root, one-flowered, naked. 

 E. B. 424. C. 1. 62. B. sylvestris minor. G. E. m^. 



Pastures, meadows, almost every where. 



Per. May, November. Sm. 



Tufts of leaves spreading in a star-like form upon the ground. Ls. 

 inversely egg-shaped, blunt, notched, slightly hairy, all chiefly 

 from the root. Stalks three or four inches, generally upright, 

 round, hairy. Cal. dark green, spreading : scales in two rows. 

 Ray of several spreading, somewhat linear florets, notched at 

 the tip, polished white, mostly tinged with crimson at the end, 

 especially underneath. Disk yellow, tubular. Recept. very 

 conical, hollow. 

 Taste of the leaves somewhat acrid. Not acceptable to cattle, 



or to geese. Gerarde makes this strange observation : the juice 



of the leaves and roots " given to little dogs with milk keepeth 



them from growing great." The leaves indeed are aperient. 



Schroder imputes to them similar powers. 



Double, as well as proliferous, daisies, red, white, or speckled, 

 common in gardens. 



' From its closing at night. 



