ELLIS PERENNIS. COMMON DAISY. 



BELLIS. Llmim Gen. PL Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua. 



Rail Synopfis Gen. 8. Herb;e flore composito discoide, seminibus pappo destitutis 



CORYMBIFERJE DICTyE. 



BELLIS perennis, fcapo nudo. Linntel Syfiem. Vegetab p. 640. FL Sueck.p. 296. Haller hijl. p. 30. Scopolu 



FL Carniol. v, 2. 146. 

 BELLIS fy lveftris minor Bauhinp'm. 261. Gerard emac. 635. Parkin/on 530. Rail Syn. p. 184. Hudfon FL 



Angl. 320. OEder. FL Dan. Icon. 503. 



RADIX perennis, fibrofa. | ROOT perennial, and fibrous. 



FOLIA ovata, dentata, hirfutula, in petiolos longos | LEAVES oval, indented, nightly hirfute, running 

 decurrentia ; difrupta iila trahentia. % down the footftalks, which are long and if broke 



I acrofs appear ftringy. 



SCAPI teretes, hirfuti, triunciales, uniflori, ad apicem $ STALKS round, hirfute, about three inches hio-h, fup- 



fiftulofi. I porting one flower, at top hollow. 



CALYX communis fimplex, foliolis sequalibus jig. 1. | CALYX the common calyx fimple, the leaves equal, /fo. r . 

 apice membranaceis, hirfutis, obtufis /g. 2. lente % at the top membranous, hairy and obtufe,'^. 2. 



and". I one of the tips magnified. 



COROLLA compjl/a, radiata : Corollula hermaphro- y COROLLA Compound and radiated : the Corollula or 

 ditas, tubulofie, numerofie in difco. Foeminina | flofculi in the difk or middle numerous, tubu- 



ligulatse, calycis foliis plures in radio. Flofculi | lar, and hermaphrodite, thofe in the radius or 



Hermaphrodlil infundibuliformes quinquefidi % circumference flat, more numerous than the 



flavi, jig. 3, 4. lente audi: : Fceminai ligulati, | leaves of the calyx, and jemale. the Hermaphro- 



lanceolati, al'bi,j%> 10. % dite Flofculi funnel fhaped, divided into five 



I fegments and yellow, ^jr. 3, 4. magnified. The 



I Female flofculi tubular at bottom, flat towards 



i the extremity, lanceolate, and white, fig. 13. 



STAMINA Hermaphrodltls: Filament a quinque I STAMINA in the Hermaphrodite flower: five Fila- 



breviffima, 7%-. 5. Anther a cylindracea, tu- % ments very fliort, jig-. 5. Antherje united into 



bulofa, jig. 6. | a tube, jig. 6. 



PISTILLUM Hermaphrodltls; Germen ovatum, 7^-. 9. | PISTILLUM of the Hermaphrodite flower: Germen 



Stylus filiformis, fig. 8. Stigma craffiuf- t oval, fig. 9. Style thread-fhaped, fi<r, g. 



culum, bifidum, fig. 7. Foeminea : Germen | Stigma thickifh and bifid, fig. 7. of the Fe- 



ovatiuri, fig. 13. Stylus filiformis. Stig- | male flower: Germen oval, fig. 9. Style 



mat a duo patula, linearia, fig. 1 1. | thread-fhaped, two Stigmata narrow and 



y fpreading,/g-. 11. 



SEMINA ovata, comprefla, marginata, pappo defli- ? SEEDS oval, flat, margin'd without any pappus or 



tuia, fig. 14. I down, fig. 14. 



RECEPTACULUM nudum, conicum, j%. 15. f RECEPTACLE naked and of a conical figure,/^. 15; 



The Daify has been recommended by fome writers to be given in hectic fevers, caufed by drinking cold water 

 when the blood has been heated by exercife, either infufed in water or milk. 



In fome parts of Germany, it is faid to be boiled and eaten with meat as a pot-herb ; but it does not feem to promife 

 much either as phyfic or food for man. Sheep and horfes refufe it, and it is very probable that none of our cattle eat 

 it willingly ; if fo the owners of lands pay dear for their enamelled meads, and daified carpets, but this part of huf- 

 bandry feems as yet littje underftood or attended to. As rural oeconomifts we have ventured to fay thus much in 

 difpraife of this flower, notwithftanding the lavifh encomiums the father of our Englifh poets has beftowed on it : 



In fpecial one called Se of the daie 



The Dailie, a floure white and rede, 

 And in french called La bel Margarete 



O commendable floure, &c. — 



- — ■ Above all flouris in the mede 



Than love I mofi: thofe flouris white and rede 



Such that men call in Daifies in our Town. 

 Chaucer is perhaps the firfr. that takes notice of the Horologium Florae or opening and flmtting of flowers at a par- 

 ticular time of the day. 



She that is of all flouris the floure, 



Fullfilled of all virtue and honoure ; 



And ever alike fair and frefh of hewe, 



As well in winter as in fummer newe, 



As foon as ever the Sunne ginneth Weft 



To fene this floure, how it will go to reft, 



For fear of night fo hateth fhe darknene 



Her chere is plainly fpread in the brightnefle 



of the Sunne. • 



Well by reafon men it calle maie 



The D'aifie, or elfe the Eye of the Daie 

 And at the laft there tho began anon 

 A Lady for to fing right womanly 

 A Bargonet in praifing the Daifie 

 For as methought among her notis fwete 

 She faid Si douce ejl la Margarete 

 Retuned by Dryden in his own numbers : 



And then the Band of Flutes began to play, 



To which a Lady fung a Virelay ; 



And frill at every clofe fhe would repeat 



The Burden of the Song the Daljy Is jo fiwett 



'the Daljy is jo jweet when fhe begun 



The troops of Knights and Dames continued on 



The Confort and the voice fo charm'd my Ear 



And footh'd my Soul that it was Heaven to hear. 



Etymologifts agree with the Old Bard in his derivation of the Daify, viz. Days Eye. Under the French name 

 Margarette it is probable a compliment was intended to fome lady, but Critics are not agreed who this lady was. 



Like many other flowers the Daify becomes double by culture, and frequently prolijerous, in this ftate it is 

 called the Hen and Chicken Daify. 



