SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 487 



BELLIS Gen. pL 962. 



Recept. nudum conicum. Pappus nullus. Cul. he- 



niifphaericus ; fquamis as;^ual;bus. Sem. obovata. 



perennis 1. BELLIS fcapo nudo. Sp. pi. 1248. (Ger. em. 636. 



/. 4. 5. ?et. herb. t. 19./. 2. Moris bijl.f. 6. /. 



8./. 26 y 29. Blackwell t. 200. Oed. Dan. t. 



503. tf/)/.) 



Commpn Dai fie. Angl'is. 



Gowan. Scotis. Noinein. GauVis. 



In paftures frequent. %. IV. IX. 



The leaves are obtufely oval, thick and crenared, 

 (lightly hairy, and expanded round the root in 

 a circle : the floral ftalks are naked, a little hairy^ 

 from four to eight inches high, bearing each one 

 flower : the cal^x is compoled of tv/o fcries of 

 eredt, equal, lanceolate fcales, expanded hori- 

 zontally at top, and about thirteen in number : 

 the rays of the flower are white, commonly 

 tinged with red en the outfide, and fometimes 

 all red, difpofed in two ranks, and about iifty in 

 number : the difc is yellow, and confiflis of about 

 117 florets : the rays clofe together in rainy wea- 

 ther, and in the night. 



The tafl;e of the leaves is fomewhat acid, and, in 

 fcarcity of garden-fl:uff, they have in fome coun- 

 tries been fubflituted as a pot-herb. It is at 

 prefent nor ufed in medicine. 



CHRYSAN 



