Chrysogonum
(from chrysos, gold, and gonu, a knee or joint; the flowers are generally produced at the joints of the stem). ORD. Compositae. There are some half-dozen plants referred to this genus; two are Indian, three Australian. The typical species (probably the only one in cultivation) is described below. It is a very pretty, hardy, herbaceous perennial, thriving best in a loamy soil, with the addition of a little peat and leaf mould. Propagated by dividing the roots, in spring.
C. virginianum (Virginian).* fl.-heads yellow; involucre about five-leaved; receptacle paleaceous; pappus a small, chaffy crown, three-toothed. May. l. somewhat ovate, bluntly serrated; petioles longer than the leaves. h. 6in. United States.