182 COMMON DAISY. 



like an English Daisy not to excite pleasing 

 recollections, associated with that little flower, 

 though others bespeak the antipodes of 

 England." Leyden, when in India, wrote of 

 his longings to look on the Daisy flower; 

 Pringie, in his day-dream in the African desert, 

 saw the meadows " gemmed with the primrose 

 and goAYan ;" and om' late lamented botanist 

 Gardner had, in the interior of Brazil, a thought 

 of the Daisy — 



" I wander alone, and often look 

 For the primrose bank by the rippling brook ; 

 "Which, waken'd to life by vernal beams, 

 An emblem of youth and beauty seems ; 

 And I ask wliere the violet and daisy grow, 

 But a breeze-born voice, in whisperings low. 

 Swept from the North o'er Southern seas. 

 Tells me I'm far from the land of these," 



The Daisy is not relished by cattle, and is 

 disliked even by geese. Its leaves, though 

 acrid, are sometimes boiled and eaten, and they 

 were, in former times, considered a valuable 

 application to recent wounds. The Italians 

 call the flower Pratolina, Meadow Elower ; or 

 Fiore de Primavera, Flower of Spring; and 

 the French term it La petite Margmrite, It 

 is the only British species. 



