WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 



the tiny yellow disc florets and throwing them over the 

 shoulder from the back of the hand, and deciding by 

 those remaining, any one of a dozen fancies. The 

 Daisy is the state flower of Tennessee. In France, the 

 Orleanists wear white Daisies. The usually simple 

 perennial stem rises from one to three feet and is often 

 tufted and nearly erect. It is sparingly leaved with 

 partly clasping, generally lance-shaped leaves which 

 are variously cut and notched with larger, spreading 

 teeth at the base. The basal leaves have long, slen- 

 der stems and are oblong, broader toward the round- 

 ing tip, and coarsely cut and notched. They are firm- 

 textured, dark green, and strongly ribbed. The slightly 

 hollowed, yellow centre is composed of many densely 

 packed, tubular florets and is surrounded with from 

 twenty to thirty beautiful, long, white, spreading ray- 

 flowers. Their surface is slightly grooved and they 

 are finely toothed at the tip. They are secured in a 

 wide, flat, green support set singly on the tips of the 

 stems. The Daisy is not so common south and west. 

 It is naturalized from Europe. 



RATTLESNAKE-ROOT. WHITE LETTUCE. LION'S 

 FOOT. WHITE CANKERWEED 



Prendnthes alba. Chicory Family. 



The smooth, large; round, leafy, and commonly 

 purple-stained stalk of the graceful White Lettuce grows 

 from two to five feet high along woodland borders and 

 thickets, during August and September, from Georgia 

 and Kentucky to Canada. The alternating leaves 



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