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

 Fig. 71. they are funnel-shaped, and five 



toothed; the florets of the ray 

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

 tils without stamens. 



498. 6. The Sfamens, c, are five, 

 united by their anthers, forming a 

 tube. . 



499. 7. The pistil, in the disk 

 florets, through the tube fcrm-ed 

 by the anthers, d; the stigma is 

 parted into two divisions which 

 are rejlexed (bent back) ; the 

 pistil in tht ray through the tube 

 of the floret. 



500. S. The Daisy has no pe- 

 ricarp, or seed vessel, the seeds 



grow upon the receptacle, e, they ? re 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. A/ 



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 

 m the syngenesious plants; it sometimes constitutes a distinc- 

 tion between genera. 



502. The botanical name of the daisy is BELLIS perennis. 

 It. 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 Beitis, is 

 perhaps from the Latin Avord 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 hav 



498. Describe its stamens. 

 W9. How is the pistil situated ? 



500. Where do the seeds grow 7 



501. Describe the receptacle of the daisy. 



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



503. Why wa this flower called daisy 1 



