A beautiful perennial (?) everlasting-flower, inhabiting 
the dry country about the Swan River, whence it was intro- 
duced in the year 1835, by Sir James Stirling. The first 
time it was publicly seen in this country was at one of the 
great exhibitions held in the Garden of the Horticultural 
Society in 1836, when the judges awarded to Robert Man- 
gles, Esq. who exhibited it, a Knightian Medal. To that 
gentleman I am indebted for an opportunity of figuring it. 
It is indeed a lovely plant, with its starry heads of the 
most rich and transparent yellow, having quite a metallic 
brilliancy, when illuminated by the sun. It may be said 
indeed that Elichrysum bracteatum and bicolor are more 
showy ; but they want altogether the softness and delicacy of 
Morna, while the latter is destitute of none of their richness 
and brilliancy. 
The genus differs from Leptorhynchos, in its pappus not 
being feathery or paleaceous, nor its achenium papillose, nor 
the beak of that organ short; and in its whole habit. Mil- 
lotia has a cylindrical involucre, whose scales are in one row. 
The most striking features of Morna, in a distinctive point of 
view, are its scabrous setaceous pappus, its long-beaked fruit, 
and the stalked leaflets of its involucre. 
