Composite—-Chrysanthentun. 255 
flowers, according to the variety. A native of the South of 
Europe. 
6. Ch. curinitum, syn. Ch. tricolor (fig. 143).—Another 
annual species, superior to the last as an ornamental plant. 
Fig. 1438, Chrysanthemum carinatum. (% nat. size.) 
Foliage glaucous. Flowers normally white and yellow with a 
brown centre, but there are several improved garden varieties, 
including double ones, yellow, crimson, or purple, or one of 
these colours with a brown centre. <A native of North Africa. 
Dimorphothéca pluvialis, Cape Marigold, is a pretty annual. 
Leaves narrow, sinuately lobed ; florets of the ray white within, 
violet without ; disk brown. 
Athandsia annua is a native of Barbary growing about 
2 feet high, and valuable on account of the long duration 
of its clustered rayless yellow flower-heads. Stem furrowed. 
Leaves fleshy, pinnatifidly divided into linear segments. 
