NOTES. 
SYNANTHY IN BELLIS. — In July of last year a gentleman in 
the north of England sent me a specimen of a ‘ new British plant/ 
The specimen did not arrive in very good condition, and the appear- 
ances it presented were so peculiar that it was no matter for surprise 
that the plant was not at first recognized as the common Daisy. 
Further examination, how T ever, rendered it certain that the plant was 
none other than Beilis perennis. A note was taken of the structure of 
the flower, but as the sender was good enough to send also some 
plants, I decided to await the production of other flowers before 
publishing any account of their peculiarities. Some of the plants 
were grown throughout the winter by my friend Mr. Worthington 
Smith, in Bedfordshire, and others were grown by myself in Middlesex. 
This year both sets of plants have produced their flowers, and 
substantially of the same character as those formed last autumn in 
Northumberland. The flowers have been analysed both by Mr. 
Smith and myself, and Mr. Smith has kindly furnished me with the 
sketches which accompany this note. 
The changes observed are first the production on the scape of a 
detached leafy bract with a distinct petiole and a narrow blade. This 
bract may be taken to be intermediate between the ordinary foliage- 
leaves and the bracts of the involucre. The young flower-head has 
an oblong rather than a spheroidal form ; the bracts of the involucre 
are fewer in number (nine in two rows), and less widely spreading 
than customary. The ray-florets are of the usual colour, but much 
less numerous than is generally the case (only five) — some are spread- 
ing, others erect and more or less twisted, and enclosing a two-lobe d 
style as usual. The florets of the disc are represented, not by separate 
corollas in great numbers, but by a single petatoid cup composed of 
several corollas, apparently flattened out as in the ligulate florets and 
united margin to margin. The free border of the tube shows lobes 
and other indications of its composite nature. Within this cup are 
the stamens, very numerous, completely detached and in a single row. 
The anthers are linear, apiculate, and longer than the filaments. 
