SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Chrysanthemum. 949 
CHRYSANTHEMUM.* Recept. naked, rather convex : Down 
none : Cal. hemispherical, tiled; scales with a dilated 
membranous border. 
(1) Florets of the circumference white. 
C. leucan'themum. Leaves embracing the stem, oblong, serrated 
upwards, pinnatifid at the base; (radical ones obovate, stalked. E.) 
( E. Bot. 601. E.)— Ludw. 183— Kniph. 6— Curt. 348— FI. Dan. 994— Sheldr. 
6 — Matth. 910— Dod. 265. 3— Lob. Obs. 253. 2, and Ic. i. 478. 1— Ger. 
Em. 634— Park. 528. 1— Wale. — Ger. 509 --Fuchs. 148— J. B. iii. a. 114. 
2— Trag. 144. 1— Lonic. i. 89. 1— Pet. 19. 1— Blackw. 42— II. Ox. vi. 8. 
bf 2. 
Flowers large. Florets of the centre yellow; of the circumference white, 
spear-shaped, with mostly three teeth. Relh. Stem (one and a half to 
two feet high, E.) upright, scored, simple, or with few branches. Leaves 
feeling the prose apostrophe of Miss Kent. “ Who can see or hear the name of the Daisy, 
the common Field Daisy, without a thousand pleasurable associations ! It is connected 
with the sports of childhood and with the pleasures of youth. We walk abroad to seek it; 
yet it is the very emblem of home. It is a favourite with man, woman, and child ; it is the 
robin of flowers. Turn it all ways, and on every side you will find new beauty. You are 
attracted by the snowy white leaves ” (petals) “ contrasted by the golden tuft ” (of tubular 
florets) “ in the centre, as it rears its head above the green grass : pluck it, and you find it 
backed by a delicate star of green ” (calyx), and tipped with a blush colour, or a bright 
crimson. 
“ Daisies with their pinky lashes ” 
are among the first darlings of Spring.” Vid. “ Flora Domestica.” Phillips further states, 
“ the Daisy not only closes its petals at night, but they are also carefully folded over the 
yellow disk in rainy weather (indeed so universally and so completely are they closed that 
acres which appear as covered with a white sheet during their expansion, are by the effect of 
a shower almost momentarily restored to their pristine verdure; E.) and justly remarks that 
“ the power of thus securing the parts of fructification is almost peculiar to piants native of 
humid and fickle climates. (The use of the petals, which form a ray round these little 
yellow florets, is to secure them from the effects of inclement weather, until the pollen of 
the~anthers is discharged on the stigmas so as to prepare seed for future plants, and when 
this part of the economy of nature is performed, the ray of the Daisy remains expanded, and 
does not 
“ Shut when Titan goes to bed,” 
but continues open until the petals decay.” 
“ Daisies , ye flowers of lowly birth, 
Embroiderers of the carpet earth, 
That stud the velvet sod, 
Open to spring’s refreshing air, 
In sweetest smiling bloom declare 
Your Maker and my God.” Clare. 
Transplanting to richer soil, and cultivation, (by transforming the yellow florets into 
petals so as entirely to exclude the disk), produces the Double Daisy, varying in colour from 
white to crimson. Hence also arises the very curious Proliferous, or Hen and Chickens 
Daisy, which exhibits a number of smaller flowers surrounding, but completely detached by 
their own stalks, from the principal central one. They are sometimes used as an edging to 
borders, but are subject to partial decay from drought and too much exposure to a hot sun. 
The common Daisy is a troublesome interloper on the mowed lawn; on smaller grass 
plots it might perhaps be advantageously salined. Vid. Carduus. E.) 
* (From Xf vcro $f gold, and avSof, a flower; descriptive of its large yellow blossoms. E.) 
