bellis perennis and Sinapis arvensis were not to be confounded, and Triticum repens was a sure sign of a bad farmer.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
Cum Antonius, Caesaris in omnibus bellis comes et tunc consulatus conlega, capiti eius in sella aurea sedentis pro rostris diadema, insigne regium, imposuisset, id ita ab eo est repulsum, ut non offensus videretur.
"Selections from Viri Romae"
Charles François L'Homond
Shakespeare, Burns, Chaucer, Wordsworth, and all the British poets who have written familiar lines about the daisy, extolled a quite different flower from ours-bellis perennis, the little pink and white blossom that hugs English turf as if it loved it-the true day's-eye, for it closes at nightfall and opens with the dawn.
"Wild Flowers Worth Knowing"
Neltje Blanchan et al