Fig. 71. 



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tubular (Fig. 71, ) ; they have both stamens and pistils; 



they are funnel-shaped, and five 

 toothed; the florets of the ray 

 Fig. 71, b, are flat, and have pis- 

 tils without stamens. 



498. 6. The Stamens, c, arefive, 

 united by their anthers, forming a 

 tube. 



499. 7. The pistil, in the disk- 

 florets, through' the tube formed 

 by the anthers, d; the stigma is 

 parted into two divisions which 

 are reftexed (bent back) ; the 



d pistil in the ray through the tube 

 of the floret. 



500. 8. The Daisy has no pe- 

 ricarp, or seed vessel, the seeds 



grow upon the receptacle, e, they are single and shaped some- 

 what like an egg; they are also naked, that is, destitute of the 

 downy plume called egret, which is seen upon the dandelion, 

 and many other of the syngenesious plants. 



501. 9. The receptacle is conical, or in shape resembles a 

 sugar-loaf. It is dotted with little holes : these are the places 

 in which the seeds were fixed. The appearance of the recepta- 

 cle, whether naked or chaffy, is very important to be observed 

 tn the syngenesious plants ; it sometimes constitutes a distinc- 

 tion between genera. 



502. The botanical nam? of the daisy is BELLIS perennis. 

 !>. belongs to class 17th, Syngenesia, because the anthers are 

 united ; order 2d, Superflua, because the pistils in the ray are 

 superfluous, or have no stamens. The generic name Bellis, is 

 perhaps from the Latin word bellus, handsome ; the specific 

 name, perennis, signifies that it is a perennial plant, or one 

 whose roots live several years. 



503. The common name, daisy, is derived from a property 

 which many of the syngenesious plants possess, of folding up 

 their petals at the setting of the sun, and expanding them with 

 its rising. The poet Chaucer, who lived in the fourteenth cen- 

 tury, is said to have first noticed this circumstance, and to have 



498. Describe its stamens. 

 199. How is the pistil situated 7 



500. Where do the seeds grow 1 



501. Describe the receptacle of the daisy. 



502. What is the botanical name and classification of the daisy 1 



503. Why was this flower called daisy 1 



