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these such plants as the Daisy (Fig. 64), Dandelion, Plan- 

 tain, Primrose, and London Pride, or other Saxifrage 

 (Fig. 59), where the leaves all spring close together round 

 a short stem and quite near the ground. Each resembles 

 a bud which has opened out its leaves and by pressing 

 them out in a close rosette has secured a little patch of 

 ground for itself. The leaves of such plants should be 

 drawn and the peculiarities of outline noted. In the Daisy 



Fig. 64. Daisy, showing Reproduction by means 

 of Offsets. 



and London Pride the leaves are spoon-shaped (spatulate) ; 

 in the Ribwort or Plantain they are lanceolate ; and in 

 the Primrose they are obovate and wrinkled. The margins, 

 too, are peculiar, being even or entire in the Daisy and 

 Plantain, wavy in the Primrose, and edged with small, 

 rounded lobes (crenate) in the London Pride ; while the 

 margin of the Dandelion leaf has large teeth pointing 

 backwards (runcinate), which have earned for the plant 

 its popular name. 1 The tips of the leaves, too, vary from 

 blunt and rounded in the Daisy to sharp-pointed or acute 



1 Dandelion is a corruption of Fr. Dent-de-lion. 



