456 
47. C05IP0SITACEJE, 
a little swollen upwards, not crowded or very numerous ; disk y. f 
ray w. Ligules 2-3 lines long-, broad, about twice the 
length of inv. or less than diam. of disk. Outer scales of inv. 
linear-lanceolate acute herbaceous with the edges membranous, 
inner oblong blunt and scarious at the tip ; the whole slightly 
cottony-pubescent. Ach. pale brown strongly ribbed suban- 
gular truncate at top with a broad flat disk surrounded with a 
narrow membranous crown or border, Recept. naked slightly 
convex. 
The whole pi. has the bitter-aromatic scent and taste of 
Wormwood ( Artemisia Absinthium L.), but in a pleasanter and 
less powerful deg-ree. It is a common rustic remedy in Mad. 
as elsewhere. 
Lettcanthemem Tournef. (pars.). 
tt 1. L. VULGARE Lam. Ox-eye Daisy. 
Rhizomes per. creeping; st. ami. rooting leafy and ascending at 
the base, then erect virgate sparingly branched or leafy, each 
branch produced into a long nearly leafless 1-fld. ped. ; 1. not 
fleshy, the lower and those of the barren shoots or rosettes 
crowded ovato-spathulate or oblong-spathulate attenuated into 
long petioles, subpinnatifid and crenate-toothed, the upper re- 
mote ligulate or linear sessile or semiamplexicaul sharply sub- 
inciso-serrate laciniately fringed or subpinnatifid towards the 
base ; teeth remote distinct linear, the lower more elongate 
crowded and flmbriate-stemclasping ; fl. large handsome, invol. 
shallow saucer-shaped, scales lanceolate gr., the inner oblong 
obtuse with a brown broad scarious border; tube of florets per- 
fectly simple at the base. — Lam. Fl. Fr. ii. 137 ; 1)0. vi. 46 ; 
Gren. et Godr. ii. 140; Willk. et Lange ii. 95. Chrysanthemum 
Leucanthemum Linn. Sp. 1251 ; Brot. i. 377 ; EB. t. 601 ; Sm. 
E. Fl. iii. 449; Koch 416; Bab. 176. Matricaria Leucanthe- 
mum Desrouss. in Lam. Diet. iii. 731. Pyrethrum Leucanthe- 
mum Coss. et Germ. Fl. Par. 401. Tanacetum Leucanthemum 
REG. xvi. t. 97. f. i. — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 2, r. Only within 
the last 10 or 15 years introd. accidentally at S. Ant 0 da Serra, 
where it occurs here and there in patches as a weed in Mr. 
Blandy’s garden and adjoining fields. First noticed by Fr. M. 
Norman Esq. May-July. — St. more or less dark purple 1-2 ft. 
high often simple and 1-fl., or only 2-5-branehed, ('ach branch 
1-lld., smooth upwards, furry-pubescent downwards, angular 
stiff and rigid, erect or ascending, rooting at the base. L. all 
smooth shining dark gr., 1-2 or 3 in. long, reduced upwards 
to mere bracts, not fleshy but somewhat stiff or rigid. Fl. 
H-2 in. in diam. scentless; disk plano-convex golden-y., ray 
