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ANALYSIS OF THE DAISY. 
4. The Calyx is said to hemispherical , or like a half sphere ; it is 
common , that is enclosing many florets ; the leafets of the 
calyx, sometimes called scales, are equal, or of the same 
size. 
5. The Corolla is compound , having many florets on one recep- 
tacle, radiate , having rays; the florets of the disk tubular , 
and have both stamens and pistils, funnel shaped and five 
toothed ; the florets of the ray are flat, and haveonly pistils. 
6. The Stamens are Jive, united at the summits by their anthers 
forming a tube. 
7. The pistil , in the disk florets, passes up through the tube 
formed by the anthers ; the stigma is parted into two divis- 
ions, which are reflexed, (bent back ;) the pistil on the ray 
florets passes up through the tube of the floret, but is unac- 
companied by any stamens. 
8. The plant has no pericarp , or seed vessel, the seeds are sin- 
gle and shaped somewhat like an egg ; they are also na- 
ked, that is, destitute of the downy plume called egret, 
which is seen upon the dandelion, and many other of the 
syngenesious plants. 
9. The receptacle is conical, or in shape resembles a sugar loaf, 
it is dotted with little holes : these are the places in which 
the seeds were fixed ; the appearance of the receptacle, 
whether naked or chaffy, is very important to be observed 
in the syngenesious plants, it sometimes constitutes a dis- 
tinction between genera. 
The botanical name of the daisy is bellis perennis. It be- 
longs to the class 17th, Syngenesia, because the anthers are uni- 
ted ; order 2d, Superflua, because the pistils in the ray are su- 
perfluous having no stamens. 
The generic name Beilis, is from an ancient Latin word, 
belles, handsome ; from which comes also the French word bel ; 
the specific name, perennis, signifies that it is a perennial plant, 
or one whose roots live several years. The English name dai- 
sy is derived from a property, which many of the syngenesious 
plants possess, of folding up its petals at the setting of the sun, 
and expanding them with its rising. The poet Chaucer, who 
lived in the fourteenth century, is said to have first noticed this 
circumstance, and to have called the flower Day ! s-eye. The 
French name for the daisy is La belle Margarite. 
Many of the flowers we have now described under the head 
of compound flowers , are by Jussieu placed in a family called 
Corymbiferce, from their mode of inflorescence, which, in the 
compound flowers, is mostly, that of a corymb. 
Analysis of the daisy. 
