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posed to have made an ointment from it wherewith to heal 

 his wounded warriors after the siege of Troy. 



Achillea bor calls, or Dark-margined Yarrow, is not so 

 tall or so woolly as the preceding species, the corymbs are 

 smaller and the bracts are all dark-margined. 



OX-EYE DAISY 



Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum. Composite Family 



Stems: glabrous, simple, the branches nearly erect. Leaves: obovate, 

 oblong, coarsely dentate ; stem-leaves sessile, partly clasping, linear, pin- 

 nately incised, the uppermost very small, nearly entire. Flowers: soli- 

 tary, or few, on long peduncles ; rays twenty to thirty. Not indigenous. 



How many poets have sung the praise of the Daisy, from 

 Robert Burns, who described the little English blossom that 

 grows close to the turf as a 



"Wee, modest, crimson-tipped 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 the 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-eye Daisies which 

 mantle the alpine meadows with their showy white petals 

 and golden hearts. 



This is an introduced plant. 



PASTURE WORMWOOD 



Artemisia frigida. Composite Family 



Stems: simple or branching, silky-canescent and silvery all over, herba- 

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

 divided into linear crowded lobes. Flowers: numerous racemosely dis- 

 posed heads in an open panicle, globular. 



