
PLANTS GROWING IN DRY SOIL. 291 
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. 
£;. ramosus, 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 Leucanthemum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Composite. White, with yellow centre. Scentless. Mostly north. June. 
Flower-heads: terminal; solitary and composed of both ray and disk flowers. 
Ray flowers white, those on 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 loversof 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. 
Hieractum 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. Zeaves; from the base; obovate and 
