COMPOSITE FAMILY 



the variety of color that it displayed — white rays with a yellow 

 zone at base and a dark-purple disk — it received the name Chrys- 

 anthemum tricolor. 



The garden varieties produced from this wild form are both 

 single and double, but this was to be expected. The unusual 



achievement has been to add a 

 ring of another color to the 

 original yellow as well as to 

 obtain strains of both red and 

 yellow. Varieties are now of- 

 fered in the market with a ring 

 of red," maroon, or purple out- 

 side the ring of yellow, and in 

 some forms the entire ray is 

 flushed with pink. 



The old-fashioned Summer 

 Chrysanthemum, or Garland 

 Daisy, Chrysanthemum coro- 

 narium, or Anthemis corona- 

 ria, from the Mediterranean 

 region, also annual, is distin- 

 guished by its keeled involu- 

 cral scales, the upper row of 

 which is scarious. The leaves 

 are bipinnately parted, somewhat clasping or eared at the base, the 

 segments rather closer together than in carinatum. The rays are 

 bright lemon-yeUow, sometimes pale-yellow, almost white. The 

 disk-florets are yellow. Semi-double and full double forms are 

 common and popular. The plant grows three feet high, sometimes 

 more. 



Costmary, or Mint Geranium, Chrysanthemum halsdmita var. 

 tanacetoldes, is a perennial species with sweet-scented leaves and 

 discoid yellow flower-heads in flat-topped clusters. The plant is 

 erroneously known as lavender. It has escaped in a few places 

 from old gardens. 



Com Marigold, Chrysanthemum segUum, "the beautiful pest of 



472 



Garland Daisy. Chrysinlhemum 

 coronhrium 



