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lanceolate or oblong, the segments finely cut and divided, smooth or 
downy, the lower petioled, the upper sessile. Heads sinall, numerous, 
in flat-topped corymbs; bracts downy. Ray flowers 4-5, white or 
pink, rays 3-lobed at the apex. Common in old fields 
IX. ANTHEMIS L. 
Aromatic or il-scented herbs. Leaves finely pinnately 
divided. Heads many-flowered, with ray flowers. Rays pistil- 
late or neutral. Involucre of many small, dry, close-pressed 
seales. Akenes nearly cylindrical, generally ribbed, barely 
crowned or naked at the summit. 
1. A. Cotula L. Mayweep, Doc Fenner. Leaves irregularly cut 
into very many narrow segments. Heads small, produced all summer. 
Disk yellow. Rays rather short, white, nentral. A low, offensive- 
smelling annual weed, by roadsides and in barnyards. 
2. A. arvensis L. Frerp Cnyamomwrite. Annual or biennial. Re- 
sembling .1. Cotula, but without offensive smell. Leaves less finely 
once or twice pinnately parted. In fields and waste ground. Natu- 
ralized from Europe. 
X. CHRYSANTHEMUM L. 
Perennials, with toothed, pinnately cut or divided leaves. 
Heads nearly as in Anthemis, except that the ray flowers are 
pistillate. 
1. C. Leucanthemum L. Oxeye Daisy, Wuitewrep, BuLi’s-Eye, 
Snerirr Pixx. Stem erect, unbranched or nearly so, 1-2 ft. high. 
Basal leaves oblong-spatulate, petioled, deeply and irregularly toothed ; 
stem leaves sessile and clasping, toothed and cut, the uppermost ones 
shading off into bracts. Heads terminal and solitary, large and showy, 
with a yellow disk and many white rays. A troublesome but hand- 
some perennial weed. Naturalized from Europe, chiefly EF. 
2. C. frutescens L. MaroGvenite. Erect, branching, perennial, 
woody below. smooth, and with a pale bloom. Divisions of the leaves 
linear, with the uppermost leaves often merely 3-cleft bracts. Heads 
long-peduncled, showy, with a yellow disk and large, spreading white 
rays. Cultivated in greenhouses. From the Canary Islands. 
XI. SENECIO L. 
Annual or perennial; stems often hollow. Leaves alternate, 
entire or pinnately divided. Heads with or without rays, in 
terminal corymbs ; bracts mostly in a single row, often with a 
