THE DAISY. 63 



DAISY, HERB-MARGARET, GO WAN, BRUISE- 

 WORT. 



Bellis perenis. 



Welsh, Llygad y dydd, Blodau'r dydd. French, Marguerite, 

 Parquerette. German, Maseliebchen, Liebesbliimchen, 

 Ganse-augen-blume, Marien-blume. .Dutch, Madelieven. 

 Italian, Margheritina, Fiori di prima vera, Fiori gentili. 

 Spanish, Maya. Portuguese, Bonina. Russian, Barchat- 

 naja zwietoschka. 



LINNJEAN. NATURAL. 



Syngenesia superflua. Composites. 



Asterece. 



" BEHOLD," says Abu Nawas, the Eastern poet, 

 " Behold the gardens of the earth, and consider the 

 emblems of those things which Divine power has 

 formed : eyes of silver (daisies) everywhere dis- 

 closed, with pupils like molten gold, united to an 

 emerald stalk ; these avouch that there is no one 

 equal to God ;" while a modern British poet speaks 

 of daisies as 



" Those pearled aucturi of the earth, 

 The constellated flowers that never set." 



And this is no mere poetical license ; for, except in 

 North America, where it is treasured as a garden 

 plant, there are few regions where the daisy does 

 not bloom ; and even in some tropical lands, the 

 intense heat at the sea level merely drives the plant 

 into the more genial mountain heights, where its 



