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separately. Yet in every one of these flowers 
all four parts are easily found. In a daisy the 
arrangements are more complicated. It is 
what botanists call a composite flower. The 
white part is called the “ ray ” and the yellow 
the “disk.” The disk is made up of a great 
many “florets,” each perfect and containing 
both stamens and pistil, The yellow flower of 
the common weed groundsel is similarly a 
collection of some sixty to eighty florets. In 
describing some flowers where the calyx and 
corolla are all bright-coloured, as in an iris, 
daffodil, or bluebell, they are together spoken 
of by botanists as a “ perianth.” 
It would be impossible to describe every 
