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* BRACHYCOME iberidifolia. 
Large Swan Daisy. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Nat. ord. Asterace& or Composit; Tubuliflore, Asteroidee, Bel- 
liew, DC. 
BRACHYCOME Cass. Capitulum multiflorum, heterogamum, floribus 
radii uniseriatis ligulatis foemineis, disci tubulosis hermaphroditis. Involueri 
campanulati squamz pauciseriales, margine membranacee. Receptacuium 
conicum, sub-alvyeolatum. Corolle radii ligulatee, disci tubulose limbo 5-den- 
tato. Anthere ecaudate. Achenia plano-compressa, erostria. Pappus bre- 
vissimus, setoso-coroniformis. Herbie Nove Hollandie perennes, erecte ; 
foliis alternis glabris parcé dentatis pinnatilobatis v. trifidis; capitulis solita- 
riis ramos apice terminantibus, disco luteo, radio albo. Endlich. gen. pl. 
no. 2349. 
B. iberidifolia ; glaberrima, caule erecto ramoso, foliis pinnatisectis: seg- 
matis lineari-subulatis distantibus integerrimis, pedunculis nudis mono- 
cephalis, involucri squamis oblongis acutiusculis apice membranaceis, 
achzeniis subteretibus elavatis levibus v. vix tuberculosis pilis paucis his- 
pidulis apice plicatis, pappo subnullo. Bentham in Hugel’s Enumerat. 
p- 59. no. 198. : 
Pappus sepius deficiens; nunc 1-2-setosus. Corolle tubus papilloso-glan- 
dulosus. Flores albi, lilacini, vel atro-violacei. 
The genus PBrachycome is nearly allied to the Daisy, and 
like it consists of small herbaceous plants, with a nearly flat 
involucre and radiant flower-heads. It is, however, techni- 
cally distinguished from the Daisy by the scales of the invo- 
lucre being membranous, not green and leafy, and by the 
pappus existing in the form of one or two bristles, and not 
being altogether deficient. 
Of this genus the greater part consists of little mean- 
looking flowers altogether unsuited to gardens; but that 
which is now figured is evidently one of the handsomest hardy 
* From fpayve short, and «xopy hair; in allusion to the shortness of 
the pappus. 
