84 BOTANY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 



last John Mason Good wrote some very beauti- 

 ful lines, which you can read from the book. 



L. Not worlds on worlds in phalanx deep, 



Need we to prove a God is here, 



The Daisy fresh from winter's sleep 



Tells of his hand in lines as clear. 



For who but he that arched the skies 

 And pours the daysprings living flood, 



Wondrous alike in all he tries, 

 Could rear the Daisy's purple bud 1 



Mould its green cup, its wiry stem, 



Its fringed border nicely spin, 

 And cut the gold embossed gem, 



That set in silver gleams within'? 



Then fling it unrestrained and free, 



O'er hill and dale and desert sod, 

 That man where'er he walks may see 



In every step the stamp of God. 



E. Polygamia Frustanea consists of radiated 

 flowers, the disk ones of which are perfect, but 

 those of the ray almost petals, having most ge- 

 nerally an imperfect seed at the base, from hence 

 the name denoting its being frustrated ; such 

 are the Sun Flower and Blue Bottles Cyanus. 



Polygamia Necessaria has the rays fertile, and 

 those of the disk constantly sterile. We are told 



