The Daisy 



therefore, very injurious to grass lands. They are, 

 further, filled with acrid sap, so cattle disdainfully 

 pass them. This explains Alphonse Karr's descrip- 

 tion : " There is a plant no insect, no animal attacks, 

 that ornament of the field with golden disk and rays 

 of silver, spread in such profusion at our feet : 

 nothing is so humble, nothing is so much respected." 



The roots, too, are acrid, and there was once a 

 popular superstition (to which Bacon refers) that 

 if they be boiled in milk and the liquid be given to 

 puppies the animals will grow no bigger. 



The Daisy belongs to that immense and universal 

 family, the Composite. 



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