Chrysanthemum.] compositjE. 259 



In meadows, pastures, and on grassy slopes the " wee modest crimson tippet 

 flower," made classical by the genius of Burns and the early associations of us all, 

 greets the eye ; nor is it unwelcome or obtrusive anywhere but on the smooth 

 shaven lawn or trim grass-plat, which, in spite of the conventional disapprobation 

 its usurpation receives, we cannot but think rather adorned than defaced by its 

 presence. And who is there that in childhood's hour, the brief but joyous inter- 

 val betwixt helpless infancy and sportive youth, hath not joined the prattling rosy 

 throng 



" To gather Kingcups in the yellow mead. 

 And prink their hair with Daisies"? 



XIII. Cheysanthemum, Lijin. Ox-eye. 



" Achenes of the disk somewhat terete : epigynous disk large. 

 Pappus 0. Receptacle naked. Involucre hemispherical or nearly 

 flat ; the scales imbricated, membranaceous at their margins." — 

 Br. Fl. 



1. C. Leucanthemum, Ij. Great White Ox-eye. Ox-eye Daisy. 

 Moon Daisy. Vect. Bozzom. " Leaves oblong obtuse cut and 

 pinnatifid at the base, radical ones obovate petiolate, stem erect 

 branched (ray white). Br. Fl. p. 241. E. B. t. 601. 



Far too abundant and injurious in meadows, pastures and mowing lands ; less 

 frequent and hurtful in cornfields, waste and cultivated ground, woods and by 

 wayside.s, though everywhere distributed. Fl. May — July. 2^. 



This species has become a troublesome intruder in pasture- and meadow-land 

 in America, where I have traced it as far S. as Savannah (lat. 32°). 



2. C. segetum, L. Yellow Ox-eye. Corn Marigold. Vect. 

 Yellow Bozzum. Hants, Bothen. " Leaves amplexicaul glaucous 

 inciso-serrate above toothed at the base (ray yellow)."^ — Br. Fl. p. 

 242. E. B. t. 543. 



In cultivated fields, amongst corn (mostly barley), turnips, potatoes and other 

 crops, especially where the soil is sandy ; not uncommon, and sometimes much 

 too plentiful in particular districts of the island. Fl. June — October. Fr. Oc- 

 tober. 0. 



E. Med. — Abundantly in fields near Rookley. Cornfields between Lake and 

 Sandown. Abundantly in some fields near Appleford farm. About Budbridge 

 and Bagwick farms, and elsewhere about Godshill. Fields about Shanklin. 

 Yarbury hill, Niton, Miss Kirkpatrick. [On St. Helen's spit, by the ferryhouse. 

 Dr. Bell- Salter, Edrs.] 



W. Med. — Cornfield near Werrer farm. Common about Kingston and Corve. 

 Colwell. 



Root whitish, of one or more principal and innumerable capillary fibres. Stem 

 erect, 1^ — 1^ feet high, much branched, rounded, solid, quite glabrous, with green- 

 ish or reddish stris, very leafy. Leaves pale glaucous green, rather fleshy, alter- 

 nate, lower ones tapering into footstalks, cauline ones sessile, semiamplexicaul, 

 glabrous except a few scattered bristles, like hairs, near the base of each on the 

 upper side ; all inciso-serrate, toothed at the base, more or less deeply cut above 

 the middle in a 3-lobed manner, the segments acute and again cut or lobed, with 

 a small point ; the uppermost leaves (especially in much-branched specimens) 

 are sometimes entire or very nearly so. Flowers terminal, solitary, very showy, 

 of a rich golden yellow, often above 2 inches in diameter, on hollow peduncles 

 deeply furrowed and enlarged upwards. Scales of the involucre glaucous green, 

 ovate, obtuse, with brownish chaffy tips. Receptacle plane, formed beneath of 

 loose, spongy, cellular tissue, quite naked. Florets all fertile ; ray extremely 

 broad, ovate, tnmcate, unequally bifid or trifid at the summit ; limh of the central 



