CONVEESATION XL 



COMPOSITE EVENING PRIMROSE MYRTLE CACTUS CURRANT 



8YRINGA CRANBERRY COFFEE HONEYSUCKLE, AND GALIUM 



TRIBES. 



"I WISH we could get rid of these troublesome 

 daisies on the lawn," said Robert ; " they are quite 

 thick again, and yet the gardener thought he had 

 rooted them all out." 



Mary could hardly bear to have a daisy found 

 fault with, wherever it might show its face, for it 

 was the first flower she could remember gathering ; 

 and she still loved to watch its crimson-tipped 

 blossom closing up at sunset and opening wide in 

 the morning, earning its title to be called the day's 

 eye. Her father told her to examine a daisy,* as 

 an example of a very extensive tribe, called COM- 

 POSITE FLOWERS, all of them approaching more or 

 less to a starry shape, and many of them called 

 asters on that account. 



The children had been picking daisies to pieces 

 while their father spoke; and Henry said he 



* Bellis per&nnis. 



