WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
with an aromatic odour. Yarrow is found from coast 
to coast and is one of our commonest wild flowers. 
MAY-WEED. FETID CAMOMILE. DOG-FENNEL 
Anthemis Cotula. Thistle Family. 
The pretty flowers of the May-weed bear a strong 
resemblance to the Daisy and are very often mistaken 
for it. ‘They are much smaller, however, and the strong 
unpleasant odour of the May-weed’s foliage immedi- 
ately betrays it. Camomile tea, brewed from its leaves, 
was frequently administered for several bodily ailments 
in olden times. In California it is dried, powdered, and 
used for relieving colic. The fresh leaves are bruised 
and applied externally for producing blisters. The 
much-branched, smooth, annual stalk grows one or 
two feet in height and is very leafy and slender. The 
alternating leaf is so finely cut and divided that it is 
little short of a fringe, or as if it were simply the ribs 
and veinings of a leaf rather than a complete forma- 
tion. It is somewhat coarse but has the appearance of 
delicacy. The flower is Daisy-like. The yellow disc 
florets are closely packed in a central, button-like head 
which is surrounded with a flaring circle of from tén 
to eighteen oblong, white, grooved, and notched ray 
flowers. The latter close abruptly downward against 
the stalk at night. The numerous flower heads are 
an inch broad. As the disc flowers mature, the yellow 
centre becomes cone-shaped and chaffy. The flowers, 
which are set in little green cups, terminate the branches, 
It is common from June to November along roadsides, 
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