. Field and woodland plants. The Venuss looking-glass or CornBelltlower. 292 FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS and tilt outer ones mucli larger, curved, irregular, and brightl)lue. The fruit is surmounted by a pappus of short, simple of the most beautiful of the corn-field flowers is the CornMarigold or Yellow Ox-eye Daisy {Chrysanthemum segehim), easilydistinguished by its rather large flower-heads, solitary on terminalpeduncles, with bright golden-yellow ray and disc. It grows from. AKLKT ]niIICRN-EL. twelve to eighteen inches high, and flowers from May to July. Itmay be identified by the
. Field and woodland plants. The Venuss looking-glass or CornBelltlower. 292 FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS and tilt outer ones mucli larger, curved, irregular, and brightl)lue. The fruit is surmounted by a pappus of short, simple of the most beautiful of the corn-field flowers is the CornMarigold or Yellow Ox-eye Daisy {Chrysanthemum segehim), easilydistinguished by its rather large flower-heads, solitary on terminalpeduncles, with bright golden-yellow ray and disc. It grows from. AKLKT ]niIICRN-EL. twelve to eighteen inches high, and flowers from May to July. Itmay be identified by the aid of the coloured illustration onPlate VII. The CornChainonn]c{ arvensis),oi the same order, is notunfrequently seen in corn fields, flowering from June to is much like the Scentless Mayweed (p. 188) and the CommonChamomile (p. 268) in general appearance, but may be easilydistinguished with a little care. It is a rather coarse plant, moreor less clothed with a silky down ; and its freely-branched stem isusually erect, and from one to t\\ o feet high. The leaves are pinnate, IN THE CORN FIELD 293 with leaflets divided into very narrow, almost hairlike segments ;and the tiower-heads are rather large, with white ray and yellowdisc, solitary on the tops of leafy stalks. The involucre bracts areacute; the receptacle conical; and ray florets always possess a Stinking Chamomile or Stinking Mayweed (AnthemisCotiila) is another similarcorn-field plant, but
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