THE IDENTIFICATION OF PLANTS 113 



Brown's Illustrated Flora, is not very dread- 

 ful, and it should be worked out like an exer- 

 cise with the plant in your hand. The sen- 

 tences in brackets are in the nature of a run- 

 ning comment and explanation. 



" CHRYSANTHEMUM LEUCANTHEMUM L. 

 White-weed y White or Ox-eye Daisy. . . . 

 Perennial ; stem glabrous, or sparingly puber- 

 ulent (with a close, short down), simple or lit- 

 tle branched, 1 to 3 ft. high, often tufted, the 

 branches nearly erect. Basal leaves (Fig. 1) 

 obovate (inversely egg-shaped, the broader end 

 uppermost), oblong, or spatulate (spoon- 

 shaped, with a broad, rounded upper end and a 

 long and narrow base), coarsely dentate (the 

 margin cut into teeth pointing outward) , or in- 

 cised (the margin cut into sharp, deep and ir- 

 regular divisions), narrowed into long slender 

 petioles (leaf-stalks) ; stem-leaves (Fig. 2) 

 mostly sessile (without separate leaf -stalks of 

 their own, sitting directly upon the stem) and 

 partly clasping (the base extending around the 

 stem), 1 to 3 inches long, linear-spatulate 

 (narrowly spoon-shaped) or linear, pinnately 

 (feather-like, the veins branching from the 



