GAMOPETAL/A I4I 
Stinking Mayweed is also called Balder’s Brae, 
Baldeyetrow, Camomile, Dog’s or Stinking Camovyne, 
Dog Daisy, Horse Daisy, Dog Banner, Dog Binder, 
Dog Fennel, Hog’s Fennel, Jayweed, Madder, 
Madenwede, Maise, Mayweed, Poison Daisy. 
Baldur says, “So fair and dazzling is he in form 
and features that rays of light seem to issue from him. 
I tell thee that the whitest of all plants is called 
Baldur’s Brow.” 
It was used formerly for hysteria, hemorrhage, 
rheumatism. 
BURDOCK (Arctium minus). 
Well known to everyone conversant with highways 
in the country from the tenacity with which its 
prickly burs stick to one’s clothing in winter, 
Burdock is found generally through the British Isles, 
but is absent from several counties in different parts, 
ranging, however, as far north as Skye. 
Commonly found on waste and cultivated ground, 
especially on the borders of the latter, it is found 
also in fields and meadows, and in woods and planta- 
tions. 
As a sturdy plant it can compete successfully with 
most plants, and thus survives in spite of the liability 
of eradication owing to the great space it occupies, 
starving out all the less aggressive species around it. 
It is a tall, erect plant with a much-branched stem 
above. The leaves are cordate, sinuous, the root 
