Ch. XIX. | CLASSIFICATION. ~h 
are tubular (Fig. 71, a); they have both stamens and pistils ; 
Fig. 71. they are funnel-shaped, and five 
/ toothed; the florets of the ray 
Fig. 71, }, are flat, and have pis- 
tils without stamens. 
498. 6. The Stamens, c, are five, 
united by their anthers, forming a 
tube. 
499, 7. The pistil, in the disk 
florets, through the tube formed 
by the anthers, d; the stigma is 
parted into two divisions which 
rare reflezed (bent back); the 
d pistil in the ray through the tube 
\) “of the floret. oF 
MW 500. 8. The Daisy has no pe- 
f Ni ricarp, or seed vessel, the seeds 
grow upon the receptacle, e, they are single and shaped some- 
what like an egg; they are also naked, that is, destitute of the 
downy plume called egret, which is seen upon the dandelion, 
and many other of the syngenesious plants, 
501. 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 recepta- 
cle, whether naked or chaffy, is very important to be observed 
in the syngenesious plants; it sometimes constitutes a distine- 
tion between genera. 
502. The botanical name of the daisy is BELLIS perennis. 
{t belongs to class 17th, Syngenesia, because the anthers are 
united; order 2d, Superflua, because the pistils in the ray are 
superfluous, or have no stamens. The generic name Bellis, is 
perhaps from the Latin word bellus, handsome; the specific 
name, perennis, signifies that it is a perennial plant, or one 
whose roots live several years. 
503. The common name, daisy, is derived from a property 
which many of the syngenesious plants possess, of folding up 
their petals at the setting of the sun, and expanding them with 
its rising. The poet Chaucer, who lived in the fourteenth cen- 
tury, is said to have first noticed this circumstance, and to have 
498. Describe its stamens. 
4199. How is the pistil situated ? 
‘500. Where do the seeds grow? 
501. Describe the receptacle of the daisy. 
502. What is the botanical name and classification of the daisy ? 
503. Why was this flower called daisy 2 
