A beautiful perennial (?) everlasting-flower mhabiting 

 the dry country about the Swan River, whence it was mtro- 

 duced^n the year 1835, by Sir James Stn-lmg. The first 

 time it was publicly seen in this country was at one ot 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 

 Jentleman 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 qmte 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 dehcacy ot 

 Morna, while the latter is destitute of none of their richness 

 and brilliancy. 



The genus difi"ers from Leptorhynchos, in its pappus not 

 being feathery or paleaceous, nor its acha^nivmi papillose, nor 

 the beak of that organ short ; and in its whole habit. Md- 

 lotm has a cylindrical involucre, whose scales are m one row 

 The most striking features of Morna, m a distinctive point of 

 view, are its scabrous setaceous pappus, its long-beaked truit, 

 and the stalked leaflets of its involucre. 



