The Daisy^s Paiigrce. 



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of Composites, all of which have their flowers clustered 

 into similar deivc heads simulating a single blossom, 

 and of which the sunflower forms perhaps the best 

 example, because its florets are quite large enough to 

 be separately observed even by the most careless 

 eye. 



Now, if you look closely at one of the central 



Fig. 2. —Ray floret of Daisy. 



Fig. 7. — Central floret of Daisy. 



yellow florets in the daisy, you will see that its edge 

 is vandyked into four or five separate pointed teeth 

 exactly like those of the Canterbury' bell. These 

 teeth clearly point back to a time when the ancestors 

 of the daisy had five separate petals on each flower, 

 as a dog-rose or a May-blossom still has. Again, 



