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I know of no plant which dresses up its flowers more 
cleverly, and cheats the public more successfully, than 
this innocent-looking daisy ; for not only does it deceive 
boys and girls, but many of the 
grown-up people who love 
flowers, and who think they 
know something about them, 
by the daisy. Indeed, some of them 
Fic. 266 will hardly believe you when you tell 
them that when they pick what they call a daisy, 
they pick not one, but a great many flowers; and 
they are still more surprised when they learn that 
not only the yellow center of the daisy is composed of a 
quantity of little tube-shaped blossoms, but that what 
they take to be a circle of narrow white flower leaves is 
really a circle of flowers, each white strap being a 
separate blossom. 
I dare not try to tell you how many separate blos- 
soms you would find if you picked to pieces a daisy and 
counted all its flowers,—all the yellow ones in the 
center, and all the white outside ones, — but you would 
find a surprisingly large number. 
The picture above (Fig. 266) shows you a daisy cut in 
two, and next you have one of the white outer flowers 
(Fig. 267). This flower, as we must call it, has a pistil, 
but no stamens. The pollen is brought by flies from 
the yellow central flowers to this pistil. 
Here (Fig. 268) you see a picture of one of those 
yellow flowers which have both stamens and pistil inside 
its tube. 
never guess how they have been fooled 
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