SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. ^^7 



BELLIS Gen. pi 962. 

 Recept. nudum conicum. Pappus nuUus, Cal. he- 

 /^ , niilpha^ricus ; fquamis fequalibus. Sem, obovata. 



BELLIS fcapo nudo. Sp, pi. 1248. (Ger. cm. 636. 

 /. 4. 5- Pet. herb. t. 19./. 2. Moris hift.f. 6. /. 

 8./. 26^ 29. Blackwell t. 20D. Oed. Dan. /. 

 503. <?p/.) 



Common Daifie. Anglis. 

 Gowan. Scotis. Noinein. Gaulis. • 

 Jn pafturcs frequent. %. IV. IX. 

 The leaves are obtuftly oval, thick and crenated, 

 flightly hairy, and expanded round the root in 

 a circle : the floral ftalks are naked, a little hairy, 

 from four to eight inches high, bearing each one 

 flower : the calyx is compofed of two feries of 

 ered:, equal, lanceolate fcales, expanded hori- 

 zontally at top, and about thirteen in number : 

 • the rays of the flower are white, commonly 

 tinged with red on the outflde, and fometimes 

 all red, difpofed in two ranks, and about fifty in 

 number : the difc is yellow, and confiflis of about 

 117 florets : the rays clofe together in rainy wea* 

 ther, and in the night. 

 The tan:e of the leaves is fomewhat acid, and, in 

 fcarcity of garden-fl:ufl\, they have in fome coun- 

 tries been fubltituted as a pot-herb. It is at 

 prcfent not ufed in medicine. 



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