OX-EYE DAISY 55 



Green Arrow is a corruption for Green Yarrow: 



Green Arrow, Green Arrow, you bears a white blow. 



If my love love me, my nose will bleed no\v, 



If my love don't love it 'ont bleed a drop, 



If my love do love me ! t will bleed every drop. 



" In some places it is called Carpenter Grasse, it is good to rejoyne 

 and soundre woundes." The name Devil's Nettle is given because 

 children draw the leaves across their faces, which leaves a tingling 

 sensation. From the styptic properties it was supposed to possess it 

 was called Stanch or Stench Grass or Girs. 



Melefowr was for Milfoil. " Plucking ane herb called Melefowr 

 quhilk causis the nose bleed, sitting on the right knee and pulling 

 it behind the mid-finger and thorn be and saying, 'nomine Patres 

 Filii et spiritus sancti ', was to impart the faculty of prediction." As to 

 the name Nose Bleed, Parkinson says, "assuredly it will stay the 

 bleeding of it ". But this property of the plant seems to be popularly 

 credited in more than one district, and it forms the basis of a love 

 divination: " 'Tis an old superstition to take a leaf and tell one to 

 put it up his nose, turn it thrice round, and all the while think of 

 his sweetheart, if his nose bleeds he is sure to get her. The applica- 

 tion scarcely ever fails, at least if the leaf be smartly turned." 



Yarrow was an old cure for ague. When carried about the person 

 it was believed to drive away fear, and so worn in time of danger. It 

 is bitter, and was used for a variety of complaints, as a cure for wounds, 

 for spasmodics, and hypochondria. An essential oil has been distilled 

 from the flowers. It is put in beer in Sweden. Brewed as a tea, it is 

 a good remedy for colds and influenza. 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS: 



157. Ackillea J\Iillefoliuin, L. Stem erect, rigid, angular, woolly, 

 leaves bipinnatifid, downy, leaflets linear, flowerheads small, numerous, 

 in a corymb, terminal, disk florets white or yellow, ray pink or white, 

 phyllaries glabrous. 



Ox-eye Daisy (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, L.) 



Fruits of the Marguerite, so welcome a sign of summer in our 

 fields, have been found at Silchester. The distribution of this common 

 plant is limited to the North Temperate and Arctic Zones in Arctic 

 Europe, Siberia to Asia, and it is introduced in North America, 

 ranging throughout Great Britain, and ascending to 2100 ft. in 

 Wales. 



