934 Rural School Leaflet 



mon weeds of our pastures and meadows in the summer. There are 

 twenty to thirty white spreading rays, surrounding a bright yellow disk. 

 The leaves at the base of the plant are oblong and coarsely toothed. The 

 stem leaves are clasping and the upper ones are smaller and almost entire. 



The yellow daisy, or Black-eyed Susan, has a large flower head with ten 

 to twenty yellow rays and a purple-brown disk. The heads are larger 

 than in the white daisy and the stems are often simple, or branched near 

 the base. The leaves are nearly entire, the upper ones oblong or lance- 

 shaped. This is a common weed of the fields in some localities, especially 

 in dry soils. 



The anemone. — The anemone is an erect perennial herb with leaves 

 that proceed from the root or base of the stem near the ground, and two 

 or three opposite or whorled stem leaves constituting an involucre some 

 distance below the flower cluster. The sepals are few or numerous, 

 colored, and petal-like. The petals are wanting. 



The tall anemone grows in woods and meadows. The plant is hairy and 

 grows two to three feet high. 



The wood anemone, or windflower, is low, has a simple stem, and grows 

 from a thick, thread-shaped rootstalk. The sepals, four to seven in num- 

 ber, are white, pink, blue, or purple. 



The anemone belongs to the crowfoot family and has for near kin the 

 virgin's bower, marsh marigold, larkspur, columbine, hepatica, meadow rue, 

 and buttercup. 



"As whispers for a moment rest 

 Upon the brink of sound, 

 Here fragrant breezes blossom-drest, 

 Half visible are found." 



JOHN B. TABB 



" The orchard trees are white, 

 For the bright May sun is shining. 

 And the blossoms show 

 Like a drift of snow 

 From a cloud with a rosy lining." 



SELECTED 



" They are all in the lily bed cuddled together — • 



Purple, yellow-cap, and the baby-hlue; 

 How they ei^er got there you must ask the 

 April weather. 

 The morning and evening winds, the sunshine 

 and the deiv." 



NELLIE M. Hl'TCHINSON 



