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OTHER FLOWERING PLANTS 



Figure 359. — Common White Daisy. 



for ornament. The foliage of all these plants is rank- 

 scented, the leaves are alternate, and the flower five- 

 parted. 



The Composite Family. — This family is typified by the 

 common daisy and dandelion. They have their flowers in 

 heads and are of two kinds, ray-flowers and disk-flowers. 



This is one of the largest 

 families of plants, and 

 from the standpoint of 

 the botanist, the most 

 complex. It contains 

 our common weeds, such 

 as the daisy, dandelion, 

 golden rod, aster, bur- 

 dock, thistle, and hawk- 

 weed. 



Not all the flowering 





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Figure 360. — Dandelion. 



