BELLIS Linncei Gen. PL Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua.
RaiiSyn. Gen. 8. Herbæ flore composito discoïde, seminibus pappo destitutis
CORYMBIFERÆ DICTÆ.
BELLIS perennis, fcapo nudo. Linncei Syfiem. Vegetab. p. 640. FI. Suec. p. 296; Haller. Hiß. p. on,
Scopoli FI. Carniol.v. 2. 146.
BELLIS fylveftris minor. Bauhin. Pin. 261. Gerard, emac. 635. Parkinfon530. RaiiSyn.p. 184.
Hudfon. Fl. Angl. 320. Oeder. FI. Dan. Icon. 503.
RADIX perennis, fibrofa. $ ROOT perennial, and fibrous.
FOLIA ovata, dentata, hirfutula, in petiolos Iongos § LEAVES oval, indented, flightly hirfute, running
decurrentia ; difrupta fila trahentia. | ® J---- . • n n 1 • ’ 1 >
I cfAPI teretes, hirfuti, triunciales, uniflori, ad apicem ,
•:$ fiftuloli.
? calyx communis fimplex, foliolis æqualibus, Jig. 1, ?
apice membranaceis, hirfutis, obtufis, Jig. 2. •'
leiite au£l. 1
COROLLA compojita, radiata: Corollulez hermaphro- ]
ditæ tubulofæ, numerofae in difco. Fcemi- |
ninæ ligulatæ, calycis foliis plures in radio. j
Flofculi Hermaphroditi infundibuliformes, (
quinquefidiflavi, Jig. 3, 4. lente au6l. Fcemi~
ncei ligulati, lanceolati, albi, fig'. 10.
I STAMINA Hermaphroditis : Filament a quinque
breviffima, fig. 5. A nthera cylindracea,
tubulpfa, fig. 6.
PISTILLUM Hermaphroditis : G erm en ovatum, fig.
g. Stylus filiformis, fig. 8. Stigma craffi-
ufculum, bifidum, fig. 7. Foeminoei: Ger-
men ovatum, fig. 13. Stylus filiformis.
Stigmata duo patula, linearia, fig. 11.
down the foot-ftalks, which are long, and if
a broke acrofs appear ftringy.
" STALKS round, hirfute, about three inches high, fup-
porting one flower, at top hollow.
C A L Y X : the common calyx Ample, the leaves equal,
fig. 1. at the top membranous, hairy and ob-
tufe, fig. 2. one of the tips magnified.
COROLLA compound and radiated: the Corollula
or flofculi in the difle or middle numerous,
tubular, and hermaphrodite, thofe in the radius
or circumference flat, more numerous
than the leaves o f the calyx, and female. The
Hermaphrodite Flofculi funnel fliaped, divided
into five fegments and yellow, fig. 3, 4.
magnified. The Female Flofculi tubular at
bottom, flat towards the extremity, lanceolate,
and white, fig. 10.
STAMINA in the Hermaphrodite flower: five Filaments
very fhort, fig. 5. A nthera united
into a tube, fig. 6.
PISTILLUM of the Hermaphrodite flower: G ermen '
oval, fig. g. Style thread-lhaped, fig. 8.
Stigm a thickifh and bifid, fig. 7. of the Female
flower: Germen pval, fig. 13. Style
thread-lhaped, two Stigmata narrow and
I fp reading, fig- 11.
SEMINA ovata, comprefla, marginata, pappo defti- I SEEDS oval, flat, margined, without any pappus or
tut&j fig- 14’ K down, fig. 14.
RECEPTACULUM nudum, conicum, fig. 15. § RECEPTACLE naked and o f a conic figure, fig. 15.
The Daify has been recommended by fome writers to be given in heftic fevers, caufed by drinking cold
water when the blood has been heated by exercife, either infufed in water or milk.
In fome parts of Germany, it is faid to be boiled and eaten with meat as a pot-herb; but it does not Teem to
promife much either as phyfic or food for man. Sheep and horfes refufe it; and it is very probable, that none
of our cattle eat it willingly. If fo, the owners of lands pay dear for their enamelled meads, and daified carpets;
but this part of hulbandry feems as yet little underftood or attended to. As rural ceconomifts we have
ventured to fay thus much in difpraife of this flower, notwithftanding the lavilh encomiums the father o f our
Englilh poets has bellowed on it :
—-------In fpecial one called Se of the daie
The Daifie, a floure white and rede,
And in French called La bel Margarete,
O commendable floure, &c.--------
-------- Above all flouris in the mede
Than love I moft thofe flouris white and rede,
Such that men callen Dailies in our Town.
Chaucer is perhaps the firft that takes notice of the Horologium Floras, or opening and Ihutting of flowers at
a particular time o f the day. 0
---- -— She that is of all flouris the floure,
Fulfilled of all virtue and honoure;
And ever alike fair and frelh of hewe,
As well in winter as in fummer newe,
As foon as ever the Sunne ginneth Well
To fene this floure, how it will go to reft,
For fear of night, fo hateth fhe darknefle;
Her chere is plainly fpread in the brightnefle
O f the Sunne.--------
• Well by reafon men it calle maie
The Daifie, or elfe the Eye of the Daie,
And at the laft there, tho began anon
A Lady for to ling right womanly
A Bargonet in prailing the Daifie;
For has methought among her notis fwete.
She faid Si douce ejt la Margarete.
Attuned by Dryden in his own numbers:
And when the Band of Flutes began to play,
To which a Lady fung a Virelay:
And Hill at every clofe Ihe would repeat
The burden of the Song, the Daify is fo fweet.
The Daify is.fo fzoeet when Ihe begun,
The troops of Knights and Dames continued on
The Con'cert, and the voice fo charm’d my Ear
lEtvmnl ’n look ’d my Soul that it was Heaven to hear.
F ' 0 8 the OId ,?ard “ his derivation of the Daify, viz. Days Eye, Under the French name
Likt ' “ 1S ProlLabIe a compliment was intended to fome lady, but Critics are not agreed who this lady was
[called the^Tj0^ b e c o m e s double by culture, and frequently proliferous; in this Hate it is*