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  • I cite an instance, secured by counting the ray-florets on the flower-heads of the corn-marigold or _Chrysanthemum segetum_.

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

  • My attention was first drawn to the structure of the heads and especially to the number of the ray-florets of the corn-marigold.

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

  • For these reasons and others I chose for my experiment the corn-marigold, or _Chrysanthemum segetum_.

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

  • [FN#28] The word ucwaneh, here used in the dual number, usually designates the teeth, in its common meaning of "camomile - flower": but the lips are here expressly mentioned, and this fact, together with that of the substitution, in the Breslau edition, of the word akikan (two cornelians or rubies) for ucwanetan (two camomiles), as in the Calcutta and Boulac editions, shows that the word is intended to be taken in its rarer meaning of "corn-marigold."

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

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