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Button, Boneflower, Bonwort, Bruisewort, Cat Posy, 
Comfrey, He Daisy, She Daisy, are other names. 
An old writer says it is called Banwort because ‘‘ it 
helpeth bones to knyt agayne.” 
OxEYE Daltsy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum). 
This common lovely wild flower is found in every 
part of the British Isles and ascends to 2100 ft. in 
Wales. 
The Oxeye Daisy is everywhere common in 
meadows and pastures at low as well as high eleva- 
tions. A very favourite habitat is a railway bank, 
where it grows in large patches with Hop Trefoil, 
Bird’s Foot Trefoil and a host of meadow grasses 
and other plants. Sometimes it is to be found grow- 
ing amid thecorn. Grassy places along the roadside 
are also beautified by its presence in every district. 
The root is fibrous and the stem is to some extent 
stoloniferous, spreading in this way from a common 
centre, and thus forms extensive patches wherever it 
grows. The stem is tall, erect, leafy, and bears a 
single flower, being striate. The leaves are sessile, 
alternate, and clasp the stem at the base, being linear, 
obovate. They beara few teeth. The root-leaves are 
stalked, crowded, obovate, serrate, and incised. The 
stem is usually simple, rarely branched. The large 
flowers are on long peduncles, and havea large yellow 
disc with long, white, ray flowers. There is a narrow 
membranous margin to the phyllaries. The terminal 
flowers are solitary. 
