74 WHITE TO GREEN 



PEARLY EVERLASTING 



Auaphalis nmri^an'/acca. Composite Family 



Stems: floccose, woolly, corymbosel)' branched at the summit, leaf}'. 

 Leaves: linear, lanceolate, green pubescent above, woolly below. Flowers: 

 in numerous heads ; involucre campanulate, its bracts ovate, obtuse, finely 

 stricate. 



This is the finest of all the Everlastings, and if picked and 

 carefully kept in a vase, will remain fresh looking for months. 

 Its flowers are large, slightly sweet scented, and pearly white, 

 and are often used for funeral wreaths ; as if to say : 



" The}' are love's best gift. 

 Bring flowers — pale flowers." 



YARROW 



Achillea lanulosa. Composite Family 



Stems: simple, or corymbosely branched above. Leaves: narrowly 

 olilong, bipinnately dis.sected into numerous .small linear divisions. 

 Flowers: in numerous heads crowded in a fastigiate cyme. 



A plant, or rather weed, so common that every child knows 

 its large white and pinkish fiower-heads and recognizes the 

 disagreeable jiungent odour of its lace-like leaves. It is often 

 called " Milfoil " from the abundance of its fringed foliage. 



The Yarrow must unquestional^ly be of ancient origin, for 

 it derives its name Achillea from Achilles, who is supposed 

 to have made an ointment from it wherewith to heal his 

 wounded warriors after the siege of Troy. 



OX-EYE DAISY 



Cluysantliciinnii I.t'Kcanlliciiiuiii. Composite Family 



Stems: glabrous, simple, the branches nearly erect. Leaves: ol)ovate, 

 ol)long, coarsely dentate ; stem-leaves .sessile, partly clasjjing, linear, pin- 

 nately incised, the upjK'rmost very .small, nearly entire. Flowers: solitary, 

 or few, on long ])eduncles; rays twenty to tliirty. Not indigenous. 



