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KI.OWKRS OK THK I'lKI.DS AM) MIlAl^jOWS 



'1 he Ox-eye 1 )ais\- is ;i familiar sit^ht in spring and summer in 

 every meadow and field, and is also common on r.iilway banks, 

 contributing; to make them unusualK' i^ay at those; seasons with a 

 wealth of wliite and golden bloom, it is to l)e found on hills, and 

 in valleys, iiy the wayside, antl e\en amidst the corn, bein;^- every- 

 where a lavourite, common though it is. Every meadow or railway 

 bank is covered with e\trnsi\c patches of the Marguerite in summer, 

 and when in llower it is a beautiful si''ht. 



Ox-EVF. Daisy (C/i>-ysaii//:eiii:im I.t'ucnnlheiiiu>ii^ L. 



The Ox-eye Daisy has the rosette habit more or less. The plant 

 is either devoid of hairs or sparingly hairy. The stem is erect, simple 

 or branched, furrowed. The leaves are dark-green, bluntly cut or 

 divided. The lower leaves are inversely egg-shaped, spoon-shaped, 

 stalked, with the stalk winged, auricled; the upper are oblong, blunt, 

 cut, stalkless, deeply divided nearly to the base at the base, half 

 cla.sping. 



The flowerheads are borne on slender stalks, broad (2 in.), solitary, 

 terminal. The disk florets are yellow, the ray florets white. The 

 j)hyllaries are blunt, lance-shaped, with a narrow, dark-purple, mem- 

 branous border. The ligules are 6-notched at the tip. The fruits are 

 all rounded, without a border, with equal ribs, those of the ray Horets 

 having a small crown. 



