A Handful of Weeds 353 
ored of the sun and copied his dear image, again 
and again in her flowers. 
But other members of the Composite family have 
no outflashing rays, but are made up entirely of 
trumpet-shaped florets like those in the yellow cen- 
tre of the daisy. These are called ‘‘ Tubuliflore,’”’ 
tube-flowers, and in this category the burdock and 
the thistle are found. | 
The florets which make up the blossom-heads of 
the chicory, salsify, dandelion, and sow-thistle are 
also alike in form and color; but these are all strap- 
Shaped like the white rays on the outside of the 
daisy. 
Those members of the Composite family which 
bear such blossom-heads as these are called Liguli- 
oe 
flore ‘‘ strap-flowers.’’- 
But each and every one of the strap-shaped 
florets borne by the sow-thistle and its allies has 
both stamens and pistil, and all the Composite of 
this particular persuasion have a milky juice. 
About all the ‘‘ dooryard-weeds,’’ which have 
followed mankind for ages, there has gathered a 
wealth of legend, folk-lore, and literary association. 
Amaranth (Fig. 97), ‘‘ the flower of death,’’ for 
instance, is almost as common as death itself. 
It grows in waste places near towns, and is a 
