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2. T. PETASiTES. Butter-bur. April. % 
On the bants of rivers and ditches, frequent. 
Var. ( 3 . (Tussilago hyhrida Linn. Sp. pi. 1214,) on the banks of the river 
Calder, near Halifax, very abundant ; and in many other situations 
in this county. 
11. BELLIS. 
1. B. PERENNis. Common Daisy. March — October. 1/ 
In pastures and meadows, everywhere. A proliferous variety on 
Clapham moor. 
Miss Kent observes, in her interesting Introduction to Botany, “ Who can see or hear the name of the 
Daisy, the common Field Daisy, without a thousand pleasurable associations ! It is connected with the 
sports of childhood, and with the pleasures of youth. We walk abroad to seek it; yet it is the very 
emblem of home. It is a favorite with man, woman, and child : it is the robin of flowers.” 
It has likewise been a distinguished favorite with poets, which it seems well to merit by the beauty and 
purity of its blossoms. 
“ *Tis Flora’s page : in every place, 
In every season, fresh and fair. 
It opens with perennial grace, 
And blossoms everywhere. 
On waste and woodland, rock and plain. 
Its humble buds unheeded rise. 
The rose has but a summer’s reign. 
The Daisy never dies.” 
The use of the petals, which form a ray round these»little yellow florets, is to secure them from the 
effects of inclement weather, until the pollen of the anthers is discharged on the stigmas, so as to prepare 
seed for future plants ; and when this part of the economy of nature is performed, the ray of the Daisy 
remains expanded. 
“ There is a flower, a little flower. 
With silver crest and golden eye. 
That welcomes every coming shower. 
And weathers every sky .” 
“ And thou ‘ Wee crimson -tipped flower,’ 
Gatherest thy fringed mantle round 
Thy bosom, at the closing hour. 
When night-drops bathe the turfy ground.” 
12. CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
1. C. LEUCANTHEMUM. White Ox-cyc Daisy. June — July. 7/ 
In fields and way sides, frequent. 
2. C. SEGETUM. Yellow Ox-eye Daisy. June — August. © 
In corn fields, not frequent. Tadcaster. Wetherhy. Thorp 
Arch. Sutton on Derwent. Heslington fields. Buktonholme, 
near Castle Howard. Several places near Malton and on the 
Wolds. Very abundant at Brighouse, Lightcliffe, &c. near Halifax. 
13. PYRETHRUM. 
1. P. PARTHENIUM. Fevcrfew. June — August. J 
On waste ground and hedge bottoms near farm houses, not common. 
On the rocks at Clink hank, near Richmond. Sparingly near Settle. 
On the Bar walls and other places, near York. Amongst the ruins 
of Bolton Abbey. Near Halifax. 
