114 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



midrib on both sides like tlie webs of a feather) 

 incised or toothed, the uppermost very small 

 and nearly entire; heads few or solitary 

 (singly, not in clusters'), 1 to 2 inches broad, 

 on long naked peduncles (flower-stalks, Fig. 

 3) ; rays 20 to 30, white, spreading, slightly 2 

 to 3-toothed (Figs. 6 and 7) ; bracts of the in- 

 volucre (the rings of leaf-like growth just be- 

 neath the. florets, Fig. 4), oblong-lanceolate 

 (between oblong and lance-shaped, i.e. con- 

 spicuously longer than broad and tapering up- 

 ward or both ways from the middle), obtuse 

 (with a blunt end), mostly glabrous, with scar- 

 ious (thin, dry and not green, like the flowers 

 of the "Everlasting" used for wreaths by flor- 

 ists) margins and a brown line within the 

 margins (Fig. 5) ; pappus (the modified calyx 

 of the Composite Family) none." 



