Am.  Jour.  Pharm, 
Jan.,  1889. 
}     Hungarian  Daisy  and  Insect  Powder. 
Chrysanthemum  cinerarisefolium,  Bocc.  (Pyrethrum  cinerarisefo- 
lium, Treviranus) — Dalmatian  Insect  Flower.  Stem  angled,  the  whole 
flower  head  ashy  gray  in  color  and  quite  pubescent.  When  dried  the  flower 
heads  are  from  J  to  f  inch  in  diameter,  the  ray  florets  being  twisted  and 
folded  and  frequeutly  broken  off.  When  soaked  to  the  natural  size,  about 
1 J  inch  in  diameter,  including  the  ray  florets.   The  involucre  imbricate, 
Fi<*.  3. 
Fig.  4. 
the  scaly  margins  membranous,  campanulate  and  convex  without  de- 
pression at  place  of  attachment  to  stem.  Fig.  4  represents  the  dried 
involucre  enlarged  two  diameters.  The  receptacle  small,  conical,  naked 
and  solid  and  light  greenish-gray  in  color.  (Fig.  5  represents  the  re- 
ceptacle of  the  dried  flower,  the  florets  being  removed,  enlarged  two 
diameters.)  The  ray  florets,  (about  18)  white,  ligulate,  nerved,  three 
toothed,  the  tube  pubescent,  pistillate;  the  appendages  of  the  style 
Fig.  5. 
Fig. 
protruding  beyond  the  short  tube.  The  achenia  crowned  with  a  mem- 
branous, notched  (eroded)  pappus.  (Fig.  6  A  represents  the  ray  floret 
enlarged  about  3  diameters).  The  disk  florets,  numerous  gray  tend- 
ing towards  light  yellow  in  color,  tubular,  five  toothed,  the  stamens 
included.  The  achenia  angled,  nearly  as  long  as  the  tube  and  also 
crowned  with  a  notched  pappus.    (Fig.  6  B  represents  the  disk  floret 
