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WHITE TO GREEN 



PEARLY EVERLASTING 



Anaphalis jiiargaritacea. Composite Family 



Stems: floccose, woolly, cor3'mbosely branched at the summit, leafy. 

 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 : 



" They are love's best gift, 

 Bring flowers — pale flowers," 



YARROW 



Achillea lamilosa. Composite Family 



Stems: simple, or cor3'mbosely 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 recognizes the 

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

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



The Yarrow must unquestionably 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 



Chrysanthemum Lencantheinuni. Composite Family 



Stems: glabrous, simple, the branches nearly erect. Leaves: obovate, 

 oblong, coarsely dentate ; stem-leaves sessile, pardy clasping, linear, pin- 

 nately incised, the uppermost very small, nearly entire. Flowers : solitary, 

 or few, on long peduncles ; rays twenty to thirty. Not indigenous. 



