"I see thee glittering from afar, And there thou art a pretty star; Not quite so fair as many are In heaven above thee! Yet like a star, with glittering crest, Self-pois'd in air, thou seem'st to rest: May peace come never to his breast Who shall reprove thee!" We may add that we know but of four references to the daisy in Shakspeare. In _Cymbeline_, act iv., scene 2:-- "Let us Find out the prettiest daisied plot we can." In _Love's Labour's Lost_, act v., scene 2:-- "Where daisies pied[49] and violets blue Do paint the meadows with delight." Again, in _Hamlet_, act iv., scene 7:-- "There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples." [Illustration: FIG. 33.] And, lastly, in _Hamlet_, act iv., scene 5:-- "There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died." In Milton there are but two allusions. In the Masque of _Comus_:-- "By dimpled brook and fountain-brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep." And in _L'Allegro_:[50]-- "Meadows trim with daisies pied." THE TULIP. "The pied windflowers and the tulip tall." --SHELLEY. It is probable that, for the majority of floral amateurs, the name of the tulip is inseparable from a plant which, with the hyacinth and the lily, becomes, in the merry spring-time, the ornament of our gardens. Yet, towards the end of March, the observer will occasionally discover, in the woods and groves, the _wild tulip_,[51] the _Tulipa sylvestris_ of Linnæus, which may, perhaps, be very properly taken for the type of a small tribe of the Liliaceæ. It is easily recognised by its flower, which resembles a large yellow campanula, slightly green on the exterior. Like all plants of the same family, it has but a single floral envelope or perianth, which may be either a corolla or a calyx as you will. The initiated protest and asseverate that it is a calyx; but the _profanum vulgus_, who compose the majority, will have it to be a corolla, on account of its colouring. To cut the knot, and please all parties, our beautiful floral envelope has been denominated a _petaloid perianth_.