SYNGENESIA POLYGAM. SUPERF. Py'retlirum. 215 

 CHRYSA'NTHEMUM. Ox-eye, 



* Rays white. 



Ch. Leucdnthemum. Great White 0. Moon Daisy. 

 Leaves clasping the stem, oblong, blunt, cut ; toothed 

 in a wing-cleft manner at the base ; root-ones inversely 

 egg-shaped, stalked, saw-toothed, inclining to notched. 

 E. B. 601. C. 5. m. Belhs major. G. E. 634. 



Pastures, ivay sides. 



Per. June. 



Stem erect, two f., farrowed, with red, intermediate ribs. Ls. 

 lower stem ones on long foot-stalks, saw-toothed, cut : the rest 

 stalkless, embracing the stem, alternate, oblong, jagged, toothed, 

 in a winged form about the base. Fl. handsome, large, solitary 

 at the end of each branch : disk flat, yellow, r-ays pure white, 

 elliptical, two ribbed. Seeds black, with white, elevated ribs. 

 The young leaves may be eaten in salads. 

 * * Rays and disk yellow. 



Ch. segetum. Yellow 0. Corn Marigold. Leaves 

 clasping the stem, glaucous ; jagged-saw-toothed 

 upwards ; toothed at the base. E. B. 540. C. 6. 60. 

 G. E. 743. 



Cornfields, turnip fields, abundant. 

 An. June. 



Stem tv/o or three f., erect, alternately branched, leafy, smooth, 

 and glaucous. Ls. alternate, oblong, pointed, more or less cut, 

 and jagged, three-cleft frequently at the end. Fl. solitary, ter- 

 minal, their branches gi'adually thickened upwards, large, hand- 

 some, bright golden. Ray -florets in a single series, inversely 

 heart-shaped. 



A law obliges the farmer in Denmark to root up this very hand- 

 some weed. Dried, is eaten by horses : it dyes yellow. 



PY'RETHRUM.' Feverfew.^ 



This genus distinguished from Chiysanthemum by the crown of 

 the seed. 



P. Partheniu7n.^ Common F. Leaves stalked, com- 

 pound, flat ; leaflets egg-shaped, cut ; the uppermost 

 running one into another at the base. (With.) Flower- 

 stalks corymbose. Stem erect. Rays shorter than 

 the diameter of the disk. E. B. 1231. Matricaria. 

 G. E. 6.52. M. Parthenicum. Sb. 258. 



' Purtthron, Gr. 



= Feferfuge, Ang.-Sax. 



' From Minerva. Plin. 



