MOUNTAIN FLOWERS yq 



How many poets have sun<; the jjraise ot the Daisy, from 

 Robert Bums, who described the little English blossom that 

 grows close to the turf as a 



•' Wee, modest, crims()n-tii)pe(l flower," 



to Bliss Carman, the clever Canadian writer, who tells how 



"Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune 



I saw the white daisies go down to tlie sea — 

 A host in the sunshine, a snow-drift in June, 



The people God sends us to set our hearts free," 



and in doing so describes the big wild Ox-eve Daisies that 

 mantle the alpine meadows with their showy while petals and 

 golden hearts ! 



PASTURE WORMWOOD 



Arionisia frigida. Composite Family 



Steins: simple or branching, silky-canescent and silvery all over, lierba- 

 ceous from a suffrutescent base. Leaves: twice ternately or cpiinately 

 divided into linear crowded lobes. Flowers: numerous racemo.sely di.s- 

 po.sed heads in an open panicle, globular. 



All the Wormwoods possess a very strong odour, b\' means 

 of which they may be easily recognized. This species has 

 tiny greenish-yellow flowers growing profusel\- on its leafy, 

 silky stems, while the whole plant is silvery white and covered 

 with softest down. 



A. discolor, or Green Wormwood, has green foliage and 

 brownish-green florets, having the same pungent aromatic 

 smell as the silvery species. 



A. biennis, or Biennial Wormwood, has also green foliage, 

 and its numerous greenish florets grow in clusters in the a.xils, 

 where the leaves join the main flower-stalk. 



