198 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



cluster, while the staminate ones are panicled and have 

 bracts with scarious white tips. 



PEARLY EVERLASTING 



Amaphalis margaritacea. Composite Family 



Stems: floccose, woolly, corymbosely branched at the summit, leafy. 

 Leaves: linear, lanceolate, green pubescent above, woolly below. Flow- 

 ers: 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: 



*' They are love's best gift. 

 Bring flowers — pale flowers." 



YARROW 



Achillea lanulosa. Composite Family 



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

 oblong, bipinnately dissected 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 flower-heads and recog- 

 nizes the disagreeable pungent odour of its lace-like leaves. 

 It is often called " Milfoil " from the abundance of its 

 fringed foliage. 



This species may readily be distinguished by its densely 

 woolly character, and the fact that none of its bracts are 

 dark-margined. 



The Yarrow must unquestionably be of ancient origin, 

 for it derives its name Achillea from Achilles, who is sup- 



