daisy

• Lord! jest as fresh as a daisy--jest as though we hadn't tramped them thirty-six miles from New Market since yesterday daybreak! —  The Long Roll
• It is also known as Carpenter's Herb, perhaps, from its corolla, when seen in profile, being shaped like a bill hook; and therefore, on the doctrine of signatures, it was supposed to heal wounds inflicted by edge tools; whence it was likewise termed Hook-heal and Sicklewort, arid in Yorkshire, Black man By virtue of its properties as a vulnerary it has also been called Consolida_; but the daisy is the true Consolida minor The decoction of Prunell," says Gerard, "made with wine and water, doth join together and make whole and sound all wounds, both inward and outward, even as Bugle doth. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• It was one of the earliest discoveries of systematic botany that the daisy is a fraud, a complicated impostor. —  Certain Personal Matters
• Each of the little yellow things in the centre of the daisy is a flower in itself,--if you look at one with a lens you will find it not unlike a cowslip flower,--and the white rays outside are a great deal more than the petals they ought to be if the Innocence theory is to hold good. —  Certain Personal Matters
• Tastes vary, and poets may value the flower differently; but a rash, deliberate condemnation of the daisy is as likely to become realized as is a harsh condemnation of the innocence and simplicity of childhood. —  The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal

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