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40. BELLIS, DAISY. (The old Latin name of the Daisy, from bellus, 

 .pretty.) (Fl. spring and summer.) 



B. integrifblia, Western Wilp Daisy : in open grounds from Kentucky 

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

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

 blue-purple rays. ® ® 



B. per6niiis, TanE 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 quilled form, all into tubes (pink or white) : in the natural state 

 the centre is yellow, the rays white and more or less purplish or crimson-tipped 

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

 clustered at the root. ^ 



41. ACHILLEA, TAKROW, SNEEZEWORT. (Named after ^cMfes. ) 

 Lcaty-stemmed, with small heads in corymbs. 2/ 



A.,!DIiUef61iuiu, Common Y. or Milfoii., abounds over fields and hills, 

 10' - 20' high, with leaves twice pinnately parted into very slender and crowde(I 

 linear 3 - 5-c]eft divisions, heads crowded in a close flat corymb; with 4 or 5 

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



A. PtSjmica, 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. MAEUTA, MAYWEED. (Meaning of the name uncertain.) Native 

 of the Old World. 



M. Cotula, or Anthemis Cotula, 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 termiriating the branches, 

 with white rays and yellow centre ; all late summer, (i) 



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

 fusion of flowers:) Natives of Old World : fl. summer. Peduncles bearing 

 solitary or veiy 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 bordei; of 

 pappus. ® @ 



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

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

 rays white ; pappus none. 71 '' 



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

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

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

 rays sometimes white. ^ 



44. CHRYSANTHEMUM, including LeucAnthemum and PYRi:- 

 THRDM. (Name means ffolden /lowers in Greek; but they are of various 

 colors.) All natives of Old World. 



§ 1. LeucAntuemum or Whiteweed and Feverfew : the ray-flowers 

 white, those of the centre mostly yellow. 2/ 



C LeilC^nthemum, or LEUcANTHEMtjM vulgAre, the too common 

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

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

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

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

 in early summer. "H 



C. (or L.) Parth6nium, or PYRfeTHRUM PARTHENinM, Feverfew. 

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



