WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron ramosus). Composite family. 
May to November. 
An upright plant, a foot or two high, with slender stem branch- 
ing at the top and bearing a loose cluster of small flowers like 
asters, but with very narrow, white pistillate quarter-inch rays, 
sometimes with suggestion of lavender. The disk, of perfect, 
tubular flowers, is greenish-yellow; the flower-stalks are free 
from leaves; the stem is somewhat hairy, but the hairs do not 
stand out from the stem as in the next species. Upper leaves 
linear or very narrowly lanceolate, not toothed; lower broader, 
somewhat spoon-shaped and sometimes with teeth. Common 
in waste places. Erigeron is from the Greek for spring, and 
old, referring to the white bristles (pappus). 
Sweet Scabious {Erigeron annuus). Composite family. 
May to November. 
Similar to Daisy Fleabane, but stouter and taller, often reach- 
ing four feet, with toothed, lance-shaped leaves, and with hairs 
standing out from the stem. 
Feverfew {Chrysanthemum Parthenium). Composite 
family. June to September. 
An upright perennial herb, a foot or two high, with flowers 
resembling very small daisies, loosely clustered at the top and 
in the upper axils, on long stalks. White rays pistillate, tubular, 
disk-flowers (yellow) perfect. The leaves are deeply cut into 
lobes with edges coarsely toothed. (Greek for golden, and 
flower.) 
Ox-eye or White Daisy. White-weed ( Chrysanthemum Leucan- 
themum). Composite family. June to September. 
A decorative perennial pest, bearing large flower-heads, with 
pistillate rays and yellow disk of perfect tubular flowers. Root- 
leaves broad at the end, with stalks; stem-leaves partly clasping, 
all pinnately cut or toothed. Fields and meadows. 
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