424 



THE COMPOSITE FAMILY. 



Fig. 503. 



In moist waste places, roadsides, 

 and sandy heaths, ranging over Eu- 

 rope, extending eastward across Rus- 

 sian Asia, and northward to southern 

 Sweden. In Britain, chiefly in south- 

 eastern England, and not known either 

 in Ireland or Scotland. FL summer 

 and autumn. 



VIII. DAISY. BELLIS. 



Low herbs, with alternate or radical, entire or toothed leaves. 

 Elower-heads solitary, on radical or axillary peduncles, with a yellow 

 disk and white or pink ray. Involucre hemispherical, with many 

 bracts of equal length, in about two rows, and green, not scarious, at 

 the tips. Receptacle conical, without scales. Achenes compressed, 

 without any pappus. Style nearly that of Aster. 



A small genus, extending over the temperate regions of the northern 

 hemisphere. 



1. Common Daisy. Bellis perennis, Linn. (Eig. 504.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 424.) 



Stock perennial, tufted. Leaves radical, obovate or oblong, slightly 

 toothed. Peduncles also radical, leafless, bearing single flower-heads. 

 Involucres green, nearly glabrous. Elorets of the ray ligulate, white or 

 tinged with pink ; those of the disk numerous, small, and tubular. 



