16 WILD FLOWERS 



. the leaves are 3 to 4 ins. long and lance-shaped in outline, but 

 they are deeply lobed, and the lobes are cut into fine seg- 

 ments, so that the leaf has a dainty feather-like appearance : 



3. Sneeze wort. 



4. Ox-eye. 



the stem is about 1 ft. high, and bears a flat head of small 



flower-heads : flowers in summer. 



3. Sneezewort, Achillea Ftarmica, Daisy family. Like the 



preceding species, this is one of our common summer meadow 

 plants: the flower-heads are somewhat 

 larger but are gathered into the same flat 

 inflorescence : the stem is 1 to 2 ft. high, 

 and bears narrow lance-shaped leaves, 

 with serrate margins, and a shiny surface. 



4. Ox-eye, Chrysanthemum Leucanthe- 

 mum, Daisy family. In hay-fields in 

 summer the large flower-heads of the 

 Ox-eye, with their broad white rays and 

 yellow discs, are frequently abundant : 

 the stem is 1 to 2 ft. high and bears only 

 a few flower-heads : the leaves are dark 

 green, glossy, serrate, and narrow to- 

 wards the base. The Feverfew, a related 

 species with numerous smaller heads, and 

 compound leaves having lobed ovate leaf- 

 lets, is found on waste ground. 



5. Mayweed, Matricaria inodora,D'disy 



family. A common weed in fields and waste places, flowering 

 in late summer and autumn : the stem is about 1 ft. high and 



