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Country people tell us that when burned they are obnoxious 

 to insect life, and we frequently see dried bunches of them 

 hanging over their cottage doors to caution such intruders 

 against entering the portal. 



E. rambsus, or smaller daisy fleabane, has longer ray flowers 

 than those of the above species, and entire leaves. The general 

 effect of the plant, however, is smaller and more delicate. 



WHITE DAISY. WHITE WEED. OX-EYED DAISY. 



(Plate CL.) 

 Chrysanthemum Leucdnthemum. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Composite. White, ivitk yellow centre. Scentless. Mostly north. June. 



Flower-heads: terminal ; solitary and composed of both ray and disk flowers. 

 Ray flowers white, those of the disk yellow. Leaves : the lower ones spatulate, 

 the upper ones partly clasping; netted-veined ; cut, or toothed. 



The " eye of day," as Chaucer says men rightly call the daisy, 

 although one of our commonest flowers, is not a native of this 

 country ; but was probably brought here by the early colonists. 

 It has a place in the hearts of poets and lovers of nature. The 

 farmer alone will have none of it. He scornfully calls it white 

 weed, not even deigning to give it its more poetical name. 



The English daisy that Burns sang about, Bellis perennis, is 

 smaller than this species, and pink. It seems rather a pity 

 that in celebrating it Burns should have closed the poem with 

 his own lament. 



" Ev'n thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, 

 That fate is thine no distant date ; 

 Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate 

 Full on thy bloom, 



Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, 

 Shall be thy doom !" 



RATTLESNAKE- WEED. HAWKWEED. 



Hz'eraczum vendsum. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Chicory. Yellow. Scentless. Mostly north. July ^August. 



Flower-heads: growing singly on the ends of branched flower-stalks or scapes, 

 and composed of strap-shaped flowers. Leaves : from the base ; obovate and 



