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40. BELIjIS, daisy. (The old Latin name of the Daisy, from bellus, 

 pretty.) (Fl. spring and summer.) 



B. integrifdlia. Western Wild Daisy : in open grounds from Kentucky 

 S. W., has branching spreading stems 4' - 10' long, bearing some lanccolatu- 

 oblong or spatulate leaves, and terminal slender-peduncled heads with pale 

 blue-purple rays. (T) ® 



B. perennis. True or English Daisy, cult, from Eu., mostly in double- 

 flowered varieties, i. e, with many or all the disk-flowers changed into rays, or, 

 in the common quilted form, all into tubes (pink or white) : in the natural state 

 the centre is yellow, the rays white and more or less purplish or crirascn-tippcd 

 underneath ; head solitary on a short scape ; leaves spatulate or obovate, all 

 clustered at the root. y. 



41. ACHILLEA, YARROW, SNEEZEWORT. {TSamed after AchWes.) 

 Leafy-stemmed, with small heads in corymbs, y, 



A. Millefolium, Common Y. or Milfoil, abounds over fields and hills, 

 10' - 20' high, with leaves twice pinnately parted into very slender and crowded 

 linear 3-5-cleft divisions, heads crowded in a close flat corymb, with 4 or 5 

 short rays, white, sometimes rose-colored : all summer. 



A. Ft^mica, Sneezewort. Run wild from Eu. in a few places, cult, in 

 gardens, especially a full-double variety, which is pretty, fl. in autumn; leaves 

 simple, lance-linear, sharply cut-serrate ; heads in a loose corymb, with 8-12 

 or more rather long bright white rays. 



42. MABITTA, MAYWEED. (Meaning of the name uncertain.) Native 

 of the Old World. 



M. Cotula, or Anthemis Cotdla, the Common Mayweed, along road- 

 sides, especially E. ; low, strong-scented and acrid, with leaves thrice pinnately 

 divided into slender leaflets or lobes, rather small heads terminating the branches, 

 with white rays and yellow centre ; all late summer. ® 



43. ANTHEMIS, CHAMOMILE. (Ancient Greek name, from the pro- 

 fusion of flowei-s.) Natives of Old World : fl. summer. Peduncles bearing 

 solitary or very few heads. 



A. arv^nsis. Field C. Resembles Mayweed and grows in similar places, 

 but rare, is not unpleasantly scented, has fertile rays and a minute border of 

 pappus. ® ® 



A. n6bilis. Garden C, yields the Chamomile-flowers of the apothecaries, 

 spreads over the ground, very finely divided foliage pleasantly strong-scented ; 

 rays white ; pappus none, y 



A. tinctoria, Yellow C, is cult, for ornament, but hardly common : , 

 2° - 3° high, with pinnately divided and again pinnatifid or cut-toothed leaves, 

 and heads as large as those of Whiteweed, with golden-yellow flowers, or the 

 rays sometimes white, y, 



44. CHRYSANTHEMUM, including LeuoAnthemum and PYRi:- 

 THRUM. (Name means golden flowers in Greek; but they are of various 

 colors.) All natives of Old World. 



« 

 § 1. LeucAntheml'm or Whiteweed and Feverfew : the ray-flowers 

 white, those of the centre mostly yellow, y, 



C. Leuc^nthemum, or Leucanthemum vulgXke, the too common 

 Whiteweed or Ox-eye Daisy, filling meadows and pastures, and diflScult to 

 eradicate ; has stems nearly simple and erect from the creeping base or root- 

 stock, bearing cut-toothed or slightly pinnatifid leaves below (the lowest spatu- 

 late, upper partly clasping), the naked summit bearing the single showy head, 

 in early summer, y 



C. (or L.) Farth^nium, or PYRiiTHROM Parthenicm, Feverfew. 

 Cult, in old gai-dcns, and running wild; with branching leafy stems l°-3° 



