MOUNTAIN FLOWERS 79 



How many poets have sung the praise of the Daisy, from 

 Robert Burns, who described the Uttle English blossom that 

 grows close to the turf as a 



" Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower," 



to Bliss Carman, the clever Canadian writer, who tells how 



" Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune 



I saw the white daisies go down to the sea — 

 A host in the sunshine, a snow-drift in June, 



The people God sends us to set our hearts free," 



and in doing so describes the big wild Ox-eye Daisies that 

 mantle the alpine meadows with their showy white petals and 

 golden hearts 



PASTURE WORMWOOD 



Artemisia ff'igida. Composite Family 



Stems : simple or branching, silky-canescent and silvery all over, herba- 

 ceous from a suffrutescent base. Leaves: twice ternately or quinately 

 divided into Hnear crowded lobes. Flowers: numerous racemosely dis- 

 posed heads in an open panicle, globular. 



All the Wormwoods possess a very strong odour, by means 

 of which they may be easily recognized. This species has 

 tiny greenish-yellow flowers growing profusely on its leafy, 

 silky stems, while the whole plant is silvery white and covered 

 with softest down. 



A. discolor, or Green Wormwood, has green foliage and 

 brownish-green florets, having the same pungent aromatic 

 smell as the silvery species. 



A. biennis, or Biennial Wormwood, has also green foliage, 

 and its numerous greenish florets grow in clusters in the axils, 

 where the leaves ioin the main flower-stalk. 



