with vant ha: 
Shakspeare, in his pt Tale, alludes to: ‘this story, as 
“<O Proserp 
For the si xt _ erat ites thou let’st fall 
Fro: 
nr dares, and take 
The winds of March ott ra uty,” 
Drayton, in his Pastorals, makes Daffodillies and Lilies the 
same :— 
See that there be stores of Jilies, 
(Called by shepherds, daffodillies.) 
The Daffodil, and Jonquil, are varieties of the Narcissus, 
mre the names are often used indiscriminately. 
Maj Common, with double 
It is the largest of the 
t flo bearing its fin 
spre 
Lean de! Gitined, somewhat glaucous. 
DAHLIA. 
DAHLIA. 
Order.—POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Nat. Ord. 
the late Professor Cavanilles, in honor of 
omy a oman botanist, author of a little yolume 
of t botanical observations. 
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South - America Ponape 
d som 
ower, but the tc mostly re, or or purse like the Chinards 
, and likewise variable in this respect. The herbage 
with envied leayes. 
It is an sitacanal fl ower 5 i first i introduced into England by 
Lady Bute, i 
poorer 
t rom America—but lost tig of til — 
duced by Lady Holland, in the year 1804. The first in’ 
tion marked the ye arwhen France became revolutionized, ne 
sieanti; teak whsien saw Napoleon made Emperor of the Fren ch 
nation. 
Pe cultivation these flowers have had rar ae doubled 
nd quadrupled, until they have become as — soy 
‘titan while their colors have been even 
their petals. 
General character a double Calyx ; the outer of many leaves, 
Corolla, rad: compound, its rays equal in number to the 
segments of the calyx ; ovate, three-toothed ; receptacle chaffy ; 
stigmas downy, 
DAISY. 
Class 19.—sYNGENESIA. Order.—POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA, 
Nat. inn. uss. 
informs us tees it now Bertin. te > Belides, 
to the nymphs called Dryads, 
in ancient times 
that presided ov 
ee ee ne | grass with Bphigess, (a rural 
th ie 
chards,) and to escape from him she was transformed into the 
humble a beari aring her name. 
the fair queen <Alceste, (wife of Adme- 
tus, ki ing o f Pherz, in Thessaly,) who sacrificed her own life 
to preserve that o of her husband, was, for ‘or this : admi ira ble p proof 
of 
the Daisy. 
The English name of Daisy is deriv iF rte a Saxon word, 
meaning Day’s eye, in which way it is written by Ben Jonson. 
And Chaucer no tv the “ee of the dai a? No doubt from the 
pete of the ate pe at night; which it also 
Star of the mead! sweet daughter de nae 
Whose opening eee invites the ing i 
From the moist cheek and bosom’s 5 chilly fold, 
To kiss the tears of eve, the dew drops cold, 
weet Daisy. 
‘When smitten by the morning ray, 
I see thee rise alert and gay, 
Then cheerful flower! RY spirits play 
With kindred gladne 
And, when at dark, by dews — 
wsink'st, the in image = i Heo 
Wath y pens: oi tose 
Of careful sadness. 
The little daizie, that at evening closes. 
O’er waste and woodland, roc a ape plain, 
a: humble buds unheeded r 
he rose, has but a sum: 
ex'teiga, 
bil daisy, never dies. 
James Montgomery. 
Wee, toa Here ge MK Sewer 
ein 
nie na 
* 
There, i in thy anaes ‘ently clad, 
na 
w g ; 
But now the pas uptears thy bed 
And low thou lies! Burns, 
he rich profusion of the Daisy in its genial soil, and its 
long-continued bloom, casting a lustre over the rural scenery 
lar felicity, in two short lines, by an admired poet 4 
oe those pearled Arcturi tm the earth, 
The constellated flower that never sets. 
The white Daisy, “‘ pearled Aoi is singled out 
simicabie t n the assemblage of beautie es—as is 
ously brilliant star Arct i tell 
Northern isphe and lik e it, the dai y 
everpresent by its constant bloo 
The general character of the seg is, a common cal ye ; j CO- 
roll, 0 mpound radiate; corollules, tubular, numerous in the 
sk. 
as most 
is the sic pal 
f ou if 
rake 
ee SES oT OM 
EONTODON sc Sle 
Class 19,—erwarvest. 
at. . Jus. 
CHICHORACEX, 
derived from the Greek tron, LEONTOs, a 
composres SEMI-FLOSCULOS®. 
Vertumnus, (the Deity who presided over the spring and or- 
lion, and 
shape of its jagged leaves to the teeth of a 
20 
‘odon, L., 
and nous, tooth, called from a similarity in the 
lion. 
