WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
the tiny yellow disc florets and throwing them over the 
shoulder from the back of the hand, and deciding) by 
those remaining, any one of a dozen fancies. The 
Daisy is the state flower of Tennessee. In France, the 
Orleanists wear white Daisies. The usually simple 
perennial stem rises from one to three feet and is often 
tufted and nearly erect. Itis sparingly leaved with 
partly clasping, generally lance-shaped leaves which 
are variously cut and notched with larger, spreading 
teeth at the base. The basal leaves have long, slen- 
der stems and are oblong, broader toward the round- 
ing tip, and coarsely cut and notched. They are firm- 
textured, dark green, and strongly ribbed. The slightly 
hollowed, yellow centre is composed of many densely 
packed, tubular florets and is surrounded with from 
twenty to thirty beautiful, long, white, spreading ray- 
flowers. Their surface is slightly grooved and they 
are finely toothed at the tip. They are secured in a 
wide, flat, green support set singly on the tips of the 
stems. The Daisy is not socommon south and west. 
It is naturalized from Europe. 
RATTLESNAKE-ROOT. WHITE LETTUCE. LION’S 
FOOT. WHITE CANKERWEED 
Prendntbes alba. Chicory Family. 
The smooth, large, round, leafy, and commonly 
purple-stained stalk of the graceful White Lettuce grows 
from two to five feet high along woodland borders and 
thickets, during August and September, from Georgia 
and Kentucky to Canada. ‘The alternating leaves 
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