Exercises on Lesson VII.
1. Daises are called “composite” flowers. Can you tell why? Cut a large “ox-eye daisy” or corn marigold through the centre and examine the florets carefully. 2. Using a lens, draw separately, an inside and an outside floret. Make your drawings large, and name the various parts of each floret. 3. Take two ox-eye daisies. Pull off all the white florets of one of them. Then compare them. Pin both flowers up on the wall. Go back about thirty paces and note which flower is best seen. 4. The daisy leaves form a little rosette on the ground. Make a collection of wild plants which have similar leaves. Draw a single leaf of each, and compare with those of the daisy.
Nest of Chaffinch.