Composite ifamili?. 



May-weed. Antkeniis Cotula. 



Pigstye Daisy (Mass.). 

 Dog Fennel. 



Found through the summer, from May to October, growing about 

 buildings, or in waste places. 



The stalk is seldom a foot in height, branching in a bushy fashion, 

 and very leafy ; it is slender but tough-fibred, and smooth. In color 

 light green. 



The leaf is small and indeterminate in shape, it is cut so deeply 

 and irregularly as to present an aspect of being all fringed margin and 

 no leaf ; the midrib is strong, and the texture coarse. Color, light 

 green. The leaves are set alternately and close together upon the stalk 

 or branch. 



The flowers are small and yellow, arranged in a flat disc, sur- 

 rounded by a sparse number of oblong, notched, white rays. The 

 leafy cup, which holds the flower-head, is dry and husk-like. The 

 heads ai'e terminal, and single. 



This is a plant of communal habit, and profusely flowering. It has 

 a trick of folding down its rays at night, and is a great sluggard about 

 spreading them in the morning. After the rays age and fall, the disc 

 becomes cone-shaped. " It has taken up its place by the roadside, close 

 to the ruts — in bad taste." (Thoreau's Journal for June 25, 1852.) 



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