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FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS 



and the outer ones much larger, curved, irregular, and bright 

 blue. The fruit is surmounted by a pappus of short, simple hairs. 

 One of the most beautiful of the corn-field flowers is the Corn 

 Marigold or Yellow Ox-eye Daisy {Chrysanthemum segetum), easily 

 distinguished by its rather large flower-heads, solitary on terminal 

 peduncles, with bright golden-yellow ray and disc. It grows from 



The Scarlet PniPERNEL. 



twelve to eighteen inches high, and flowers from May to July. It 

 may be identified by the aid of the coloured illustration on 

 Plate VII. 



The Corn Chamomile (.4 w^^em*5 arvensis),oi the same order, is not 

 unfrequently seen in corn fields, flowering from June to August. 

 It is much like the Scentless Mayweed (p. 188) and the Common 

 Chamomile (p. 268) in general appeairance, but may be easily 

 distinguished with a little care. It is a rather coarse plant, more 

 or less clothed with a silky down ; and its freely-branched stem is 

 usually erect, and from one to two feet high. The leaves are pinnate, 



