. Botany for beginners : an introduction to Mrs. Lincoln's Lectures on botany : for the use of common schools and the younger pupils of higher schools and academies. Botany. Fig. C!l. XIX. J CLASSIFICATION. a 17 tubular (Fig. 71, «); they have both stamens and pistils; they are funnel-shaped, and five toothed; the florets of the ray Fig. 71, b, are flat, and have pis- tils without stamens. 498. 6. The Stamens, c, arefive, 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 wh
. Botany for beginners : an introduction to Mrs. Lincoln's Lectures on botany : for the use of common schools and the younger pupils of higher schools and academies. Botany. Fig. C!l. XIX. J CLASSIFICATION. a 17 tubular (Fig. 71, «); they have both stamens and pistils; they are funnel-shaped, and five toothed; the florets of the ray Fig. 71, b, are flat, and have pis- tils without stamens. 498. 6. The Stamens, c, arefive, 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 are reftexed (bent back); the d pistil in the ray through the tube of the floret. 500. 8. The Daisy has no pe- 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 tn the syngenesious plants; it sometimes constitutes a distinc- tion between genera. 502. The botanical nam? of the daisy is BELLIS perennis. !>. 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
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