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Rough Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron ramosus (Walt.) B.S.P.) 

 has leaves, without teeth or divisions. 



Both are common clover field weeds in all parts of eastern 

 Canada. The seeds are small and are carried in grass seeds. 



TRIBE INULEAE 



This tribe of the Sunflower family contains a few of the 

 plants commonly known as Everlastings, which are weeds of 

 secondary importance. Such are the True Everlastings, or 

 Cat's-foot (genera Antennaria and Anaphalis) and the Cut- 

 weeds (genus Gnaphalium). Most of them are perennial, low 

 plants of a characteristic woolly appearance, with numerous 

 dry, chaffy, mostly white or inconspicuous flower heads. The 

 seeds are generally very small. 



Elecampane (Inula Helenium L.), also called Horsehead, 

 is a stout perennial with a thick, mucilaginous root; introduced 

 from Europe. The leaves are large, rough above, woolly beneath, 

 the upper ones stalkless, clasping the stem. 



The flower heads are yellowish, with many rays. The seed 

 is about 1/5 of an inch long, olive brown, 4-angled, with a long, 

 spreading pappus. 



Elecampane, the beauteous Helen's flower, 

 Mingles among the rest her silver store. 



Rapin, 1650. 



Some think it took the name from the teares of Helen, from whence it sprang, which 

 is a fable; others that she had her hands full of this herbe when Paris carried her away; 

 others say that it was so called because Helen first found it available against the bitings 

 and stingings of venomous beasts; and others thinke that it tooke the name from the 

 Island Helena, where the best was found to grow. 



Parkinson, 1629. 



