Chrysanthemum

kris-an the-mum, a flowering herb belonging to the aster family. The name is Greek, meaning golden flower, having reference to the yellow straps of the corolla. The original type had but a single row of strap-shaped flowers. The double varieties have been obtained by causing the small, five-pointed corollas of the disk flower to develop into straps. The florists of China and Japan excel in the cultivation of this flower. Our large flowered varieties are obtained from a blending of two species that grow wild in China and Japan. Although the original color was yellow, the florist now produces white, pink, bronze, and crimson, as well as saffron-colored varieties. Botanically the common ox-eye daisy, or white-weed, and the marguerite flower are chrysanthemums.

Chuck-will's-widow, a bird of the goat-sucker family, allied to the whip-poor-will, but larger. Its notes and habits are like those of the whip-poor-will. It feeds on the wing by catching insects. It has an enormous mouth. Chapman is authority for the occurrence of humming birds and sparrows in its stomach, which he kindly covers with the mantle of charity by suggesting that these small birds may have been mistaken for large moths. Two dull white eggs, with lilac markings, are laid on the ground or on leaves in thickets and groves. See Whip-Poor-Will