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

 pretty.) (Fl. spring and summer.) 



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

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

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

 bluc-piii-ple rays. ® ® 



B. per^unis, Tkue 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. y. 



41. ACHILLEA, YARROW, SNEEZE WORT. (Named after .^cAjV/es. ) 

 Leafy-stemmed, with small heads in corymbs. Ij. 



A. Millefdlium, 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 diyisions, heads crowded in ,a close flat corymb, with 4 or 5 

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



A.' Pt&rmica, Sneezewoet. 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, shal'j^ly cut-serrate ; heads in a loose corymb, with 8 - 12 

 or more rather long bright white rays. 



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

 • of the Old World. 



M. Cotula, or Anthemis Cotula, the Common Mayw^eed, 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. (J) 



43. Anthemis, chamomile. (Ancient Greet name, from the pro- 

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

 solitary or very few heads. 



A. arv6nsis. 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. u6bilis. Garden C, yields the Chamomile-flowers of the apothecaries, 

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

 rays white ; pappus none. ^ 



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 lai^e as those of Whiteweed, with golden-yellow flowers, or tha 

 rays spmetimes white. Ij. , 



44. CHEYSANTHEMITM, including LeucAnthemum and PyRfe- 

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



colors.) All natives of Old World. 



§ I. LECciNTHEMUM Or Whiteweed and Feverfew : the ray-flamert 

 white, those of the centre mostly yellow, y. 



C. Leucd.ntlieinum, or LeucAnthemum vcLOiRE, the too common 

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

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

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

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

 in early summer. ^ 



C, (or L.) Parth6nium, or PrRiiTHRDM Parthenium, Feverfew. 

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



