176 45. COMPOSITE. 



E. B. 2532.— St. 10—12 in. high, decumbent at the base, woolly, 

 simple. Phyll. woolly, edged with brown. Disk and rays 

 golden-yellow. — Naturalized. P. VII. "VIII. S. I. 



4. A. Millefolium (L.) ; I. with a lanceolate outline bipinnatifid 

 woolly or nearly glabrous, lobes cut with linear segments, rachis 

 entire or subdentate with entire teeth, corymb dense, rays equal- 

 ling about half the involucre.— E. B. 758. R. xvi. 1024.— St. 

 erect, 6 — 18 in. high, nearly glabrous or woolly. Phyll. nearly 

 glabrous with a brown margin. Heads small. Florets white, 

 occasionally reddish or purple. — Pastures and waste ground. 

 P. VI.— Vm. Yarrow. Millefoil. 



5. A. tanacetifolia (All.) ; stem-l. with an oblong outline bi- 

 pinnatifid woolly or nearly glabrous, rachis winged serrate, pinna 

 pinnules and teeth of the rachis incise-serrate, corymb dense, 

 rays equalling about half the involucre. — R. xvi. 1027. — St. 

 3—^ feet high, erect, woolly. Root-1. stalked, with a lanceolate 

 outline ; rachis with large incise-serrate teeth especially just 

 under the pinnse. Pinnse and pinnules broad. Rachis of the 

 st.-l. and the upper part of the radical 1. broadly winged. Fl. 

 yellowish. St.-l. sometimes pinnatifid only. — Ringing Low near 

 Sheffield; Cromford Moor, Derbyshire. Mr. John Hardy. P. 

 VII. E. 



14. (22.) DiOTis Desf. Cotton-weed. 



I. D. maritima (Cass.). — E. B. 141. — Densely cottony and 

 white. St. about a foot high, recumbent below, densely leafy, 

 corymbose above. L. sessile, oblong, obtuse, flat, crenate, per- 

 sistent. Heads in terminal corymbose tufts. Inv. cottony. 

 Florets yellow.— Sandy sea-shores, rare. P. VIII. IX. E. 



15. (16.) Chrysanthemum ii«M. 



1. C. Leucanthemum (h.) ; lower 1. obovate stalked, stem-l. 

 oblong obtuse cut sessile pinnatifid at the base, phyll. lanceolate 

 obtuse with a narrow membranous margin, florets of the ray white, 

 fir. without a border.— E. B. 601. S*.2. II.— St.erect, 1—2 feet 

 high, simple, striated. Lower 1. narrowing into a winged and 

 auricled stalk. Heads solitary, terminal, large ; disk yellow. — 

 Fields. P. VI.— VIII. Ox-eye. 



2. C. segetum (L.) ; 1. glabrous toothed dilated outwards and 

 lobed, upper 1. clasping, phyll. ovate obtuse with a broad mem- 

 branous margin, florets of the ray yellow. — E. B. 540. — St. afoot 

 high, alternately branched, angular. L. incise-serrate or lobed 

 in the upper part, simply toothed below. Heads solitary, ter- 

 minal. — Corn-fields. A. VI. — VIII. Corn Marigold. 



