SYNGENESIA-POLYGAM.-SUPERF. Bellis. 447 



angular, leafy, hairy ; branched and glutinous at the upper part. 

 Leaves rather soft and downy, heart-shaped, more or less regu- 

 larly toothed, or wavy ; the radical ones large, obtuse, on long 

 -footstalks ; those about the middle of the stem sessile, and clasp- 

 ing ; upper ones much smaller, pointed. Fl. solitary at the ends 

 of the branches, 2 inches wide, of a uniform bright yellow, the 

 earliest overtopped by succeeding ones. Calyx-scales downy, 

 with long taper points. Seeds furrowed ; those of the marginal 

 florets smooth, and quite destitute of a crown ; those of the disk 

 hairy, crowned with copious rough down. Recept. convex, 

 pitted. 

 The characters of the various species are, as Dr. Hooker observes, 

 not discriminative. The plants themselves are, nevertheless, 

 abundantly distinct, especially D. plantagineum . 1 apprehend 

 some mistake concerning the Doronicum in Fl. Lond. t. 88. 



404. BELLIS. Daisy. 



Linn. Gen. 429. Juss.]83. Fl.Br.897. Tourn.t. 280. Lam. 

 i.677. Gcertn.t.l68. 



Nat. Ord. Composite, y, discoidece. Linn. 49. Corymbiferce, 

 sect. 3. Juss. 55. Three following genera the same. 



Common Cal. simple, erect, of from 10 to 20 lanceolate, 

 equal scales, in 2 rows. Cor. compound, radiant ; Jiorets 

 of the disk numerous, perfect, tubular, with 5 equal 

 spreading segments ; those of the radius ligulate, lanceo- 

 late, slightly notched at the end, more numerous than the 

 scales of the calyx. Filain. in the tubular florets only, 

 capillary, very short. Anth. in a cylindrical, notched 

 tube. Germ, in all the florets fertile, obovate. Style thread- 

 shaped. Stigmas spreading, oblong, rather shorter and 

 thicker in the florets of the disk. Seed-vessel none, but 

 the spreading unaltered calyx. Seed obovate, compressed, 

 without any margin, crown or seed-down. Recept. co- 

 nical, hollow, naked. 



Species few, of humble growth, with simple, obovate, 

 chiefly radical, leaves. Fl. in Europe with a white or 

 reddish radius, on simple stalks. Several caulescent spe- 

 cies have been found in New Holland, with blue or pur- 

 ple flowers. 



1. B. perennis. Common Daisy. 



Root creeping. Flower-stalks radical, naked. 



B. perennis. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 248. Willd. ?;. 3. 2 1 2 1 . Fl. Br. 897. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 6. t. 424. Curt. Lond.fasc. ] . t. 62. Hook. Scot. 

 246. Fl. Dan. t. o03. Bull. Fr. t. 1 73. 



