GAMOPETAL 135 
The roots are fibrous and numerous. The stems 
are all scapes. The leaves are radical and arranged 
as a rosette, petiolate, obovate or spathulate, the 
margin serrate, fleshy, the midrib pronounced. The 
stem may be a prostrate rhizome, dividing into many 
branches, when the leaves grow laterally. 
The flowers are on long single scapes with the hairs 
usually appressed. The common simple involucre 
is membranous at the margin, the yellow disc flowers 
are funnel-shaped, tubular. The female flowers in 
the ray are longer than the involucre, tubular below, 
then flat, white, lanceolate ; the oval seeds are flat and 
have no pappus. 
The daisy in flower is 5 to 6 in. in height. It 
flowers from March to August. The numerous disc 
florets form a capitulum, which is flat and yellow, the 
ray florets being longer. 
There are no stamens in the ray and no sweeping 
hairs on the branches of the style. The pistil bears 
stigmatic papille, with close sweeping hairs from the 
tip to the base, which clear the cylinder of pollen 
when the style has lengthened. The papillz are few 
in the neighbourhood of the hairs on the margin at 
the widest points. When the plant is pollinated the 
lobes of the style are bent back. The hive bee and 
- other bees, flies, butterflies and beetles visit the Daisy. 
There being no pappus the achenes rely on the flat- 
tened ribs for dispersal by the wind. 
Bachelor’s Buttons, Bairwort, Banwort, Benner 
Gowan, Bennet, Benwort, Bessy Banwood, Billy 
