SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLU A. Bellis. 947 
strap-shaped, sharp-pointed, hairy. FI. Brit. Root tuberous at inter¬ 
vals, the tubers transversely striated, ovate, with fibres from each side ; 
(Hook.) hence in general form resembling a scorpion, and thus Bauhin, 
“ D. radice Scorpii.” Lamarck. E.) 
Great Leopard’s-bane. About Hoddam Castle, Annandale, and several 
other places in the Lowlands. Lightfoot. Near the World’s End, Har- 
rowgate. Mr. Manby. Banks of the Severn, below Bridgnorth. (By 
the road-side, near Saling Hall, Essex. Mr. Walford, in FI. Brit. Moun¬ 
tains of Northumberland. Gerard. Hedge in a lane leading from Wid- 
dington, to a wood called the Jock, Essex. Mr. T. F. Forster, in Bot. 
Guide. Woods at Catton, by Norwich. Mr. Liridley, in FI. Lond. E.) 
P. May—June.* * * § 
BEL'LIS.t Recept. naked, conical: Dozen none: Calyx he¬ 
mispherical, with equal scales: Seed inversely egg- 
shaped. 
B. peren'nis. (Fruit-stalk naked, radical: leaves obovate, crenate: 
root creeping. E.) 
Curt. — (E. Bot. 424. E.)— Kniph. 1— El. Dan. 503— Wale. — Blackw. 200— 
Ludiv. 184— Matth. 912—Bod. 265. 1—Lob. Obs. 252. 2, and Ic. i. 476. 1 
— Ger. Em. 636. 5—Pet. 19. 2—Ger. 510. 4 —H. Ox. vi. 8. 2 6—Ger. 510. 
3 —Ger. Em. 636. 4 —Park. 530. 11— H. Ox. vi. 8. 29— Fuchs. 147— 
Trag. 161. 
Stalk hairy, solid at the bottom, hollow upwards, sometimes with a few 
leaves. Relh. Leaves blunt, spread upon the ground. Florets in the 
centre yellow, those in the circumference notched at the end, white 
above, more or less empurpled beneath. (. Receptacle hollow, conical. 
Few plants vary in size more than the Daisy according to the nature of 
the soil in which it grows : in poor land dwindling to little more than an 
inch in height, with a wiry stem; in rich mould rising to four or five 
inches in height, with all its parts proportionably expanded. These dif¬ 
ferent appearances have induced some Botanists to describe varieties, or 
even new species, but which, on change of situation, have failed to main¬ 
tain a permanent character. E.) 
Common Daisy. J (Scotch: Gowan. Irish: Noinin. Welsh: Llygad y 
dyddcyffredin. Gaelic: Noinein. E.) Meadows and pastures. 
P. March—Oct.§ 
* (Thi s plant can scarcely be deemed an aboriginal. The older authorities did not con¬ 
sider it indigenous, and though now occasionally found in an apparently wild state, it has 
merely in the course of time become naturalized. It had formerly a place in our gardens, 
the root being esteemed a valuable alexipharmic, but whatever may have been its virtues, 
its deleterious effects, when given incautiously, are unquestionable. Matthiolus records the 
instance of a dog being killed by it; and there is some reason to believe that the mortal career 
of the celebrated Conrad Gesner, the German Pliny, or as Boerhaave styles him, that “ Mon¬ 
strum Eruditioniiy ” was prematurely closed by experimenting with this fatal herb. E.) 
+ (From bellusy pretty. E.) 
t (Q. d. the eye of day , opening with the sun. Bairnwort in Yorkshire, probably 
from the delight which children take in gathering these flowers. £.) 
§ The leaves are slightly acrid. The roots have a penetrating pungency. Horses, 
sheep, and cows refuse it. Linn. (Ludovici recommends it as an antiscorbutic. But, with¬ 
out insisting on its problematical virtues, this interesting little plant proves infinitely more 
attractive as La Belle Marguerite of the French, (perhaps so designated from its yearly 
aspect) j the H Bonnie gem,” of the Ayrshire ploughman; the 
<£ Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower,” 
