The Magdalen's flower: ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum
Vulgare) in a delicate drawing among many by Lizzie Harper in
Adele Nozedar's The Hedgerow Handbook: Recipes, remedies and
rituals (Square Peg, £12.99 (£11.70);
978-0-224-08671-4). This flower is sometimes called the maudlin
daisy, or maudlinwort, the author says, because it is useful in
soothing women's complaints, and was originally dedicated to
Artemis, before Christians renamed it after St Mary Magdalene