WHITE DAISY. WHITE-WEED. OX-EYED DAISY. 



Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum. Composite Family. 



The common white daisy stars the June meadows with those 

 gold-centred blossoms which delight the eyes of the beauty- 

 lover while they make sore the heart of the farmer, for the 

 " white-weed," as he calls it, is hurtful to pasture land and dif- 

 ficult to eradicate. 



The true daisy is the Belli s perennis of England, the 



"Wee, modest crimson-tippit flower " 



of Burns. This was first called " day's eye," because it closed 

 at night and opened at dawn, 



"That well by reason men it call may, 

 The Daisie, or else the eye of the day," 



sang Chaucer nearly five hundred years ago. In England our 

 flower is called "ox-eye" and "moon daisy;" in Scotland, 

 " dog-daisy." 



The plant is not native to this country, but was brought 

 from the Old World by the early colonists. 



DAISY FLEABANE. SWEET SCABIOUS. 



Erigeron annuus. Composite Family. 



Stem. Stout ; from three to five feet high ; branched ; hairy. Leaves. 

 Coarsely and sharply toothed ; the lowest ovate, the upper narrower. 

 Flower-heads. Small; clustered; composed of both ray and disk-flowers, 

 the former white, purplish, or pinkish, the latter yellow. 



During the summer months the fields and waysides are whi- 

 tened with these very common flowers which look somewhat like 

 small white daisies or asters. 



Another common species is E. strigosus, a smaller plant, 

 with smaller flower-heads also, but with the white ray-flowers 

 longer. The generic name is from two Greek words signifying 



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