WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
GROUP XI 
Leaves (alternate) finely dissected. 
May-weed. Chamomile {Anthemis cotula). Composite 
family. June to November. 
An annual, a foot or two high. Flower-heads an inch broad, 
rays white, neutral, disk yellow. Roadsides, where, — 
" the Camomile, the more it is trodden, 
The faster it grows. — King Henry IV. 
Yarrow (Achillea Millefolium). Composite family. June 
to November. 
A perennial herb, maximum height two feet, with small, 
white (rarely pink) flowers in flat-topped clusters; ray-flowers 
pistillate, disk-flowers perfect. One of the most widely dis- 
tributed of plants. Named for Achilles. 
Queen Anne's Lace. Wild Carrot (Daucus carbtd). Parsley 
family. June to September. 
A decorative biennial weed. The slender stem bears a com- 
pound umbel of delicate, irregularly five-petalled flowers. 
GROUP XII 
Leaves alternate, compound. Flowers in spike or raceme. 
Canadian Burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis) . Rose family. 
July to October. 
A striking perennial, maximum height six feet, bears a long 
spike of feathery flowers. The name is from sanguis and sorbare, 
to drink up blood, i.e., styptic. There are four petal-Hke sepals, 
no petals, and four very long stamens. The leaves have seven 
or more toothed leaflets. Meadows, etc. Salad Burnet (5. 
minor) was referred to in Henry V — 
" The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth 
The freckled cowslip, bumet and sweet clover." 
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