THE DAISY 



BELLIS PERENNIS 



IF an Englishman knows and cares for no other 

 flower, he knows and cares for the Daisy 



" Methinks that there abides in thee 

 Some concord with humanity 

 Given to no other flower I see," 



says Wordsworth. It stands to him in a special 



way as the emblem of childhood, innocence and 



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d, sheath of bracts, b, ray floret, c, disk floret, d, stamen heads joined. 

 d, stigma, style, ovary, f, section through bloom showing filaments distinct. 



home, while it is pre-eminently the children's flower 

 —the first flower a child is taught to know. All 

 the poets love the Daisy from Chaucer downwards. 

 " It is of all floures the flour," he says, and specially 



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