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BELUsPERENNis var. M AJOR FLORE PLENO,
GREAT DOUBLE DAISY,
Clafs and Order.
SYNQENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA,
Generic Ch$rafier.
Recept. nudum, conicum. Pappus nullus. Cal. hemifphjericus:
fquamis fequalibus. Sfm, fubovata.
Specific Cbarafier and Synonyms.
EELLIS pcretmis fcapo nudo. Linn. Sjjf. Vegetal, ed. 1 4,
Murr. />. 770.
BELLIS hortenfts {lore plena. Bauh. Pin. f. ^61.
BELLIS minor hortenGs flore plena.
Double Garden Daify. Park- Parad. p. 3 22.
The daify, a plant common to. Europe, in its wild ftate
delights in open fituations, which are moderately moift, its
root is perennial, and increafes greatly; the ufual colour of
its flowers is white, the florets are fometimes tipt with red,
but morft frequently red or; the under fide.
When double, the daify becomes much more ornamental,
and in this ftate many varieties of it have long been cultivated,1
very generally in gardens; thofe principally found in our
uurferies are
The large double daify with florets of a deep red colour
on the under fide, figured on the plate ; the flowers of this
(art will fometimes expand nearly to the fize of a half-crown
piece, and are the moft fhewy of any that we have feen j the
foliage of this fort is alfo proportionably larger.
The pale red double daify, more delicate in its appearance,;
|>ut fmaller, varying in its {hades of colour.
The pure white double daify.
The deep red double daify; in this the petals are ufually
mbular or quilled-
Befides thefe, there are
The coxcomb double daify, both red and white, in which
the flowering ftem rifes up preternaturally flattened, and
carries on its fummit a long-extended ridge of flowers, fre
quently of an enormous fize; this monftrous production feems
to arife from the cqalefcence of two or more flowering ttems:
and as it is of accidental origin, fo we find that a dart/ which has
been a coxcomb one year, (hall lofe that appearance entirely
the next, and out of a long edging of daifies growing luxu
riantly,