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*HELICHRYSUM macranthum. 



Large-fioiuered Helichrysum . 



SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



Nat. ord. Asteraceje, or Composite. 

 HELICHR YSUM. SuprA vol. 1 . fol. 2 1 . 



H. macranthum ; caule herbaceo ascendente v. erecto subsimplici scabro apice 

 monocephalo, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis v. infimis spathulatis obtusis inte- 

 gerrimis basi in petiolum angustatis et amplexicauli-dilatatis utrinque viri- 

 dibus scabris, capitulo magno niveo extus subroseo, squamis interioribus 

 radiantibus latti ovatis obtusis mucronulatis, receptaculo nudo, pappo scabro. 

 Benthamin Hiigel's Enumeratio,p. 65. 



The Swan River colony is "the land of promise" for 

 collectors of beautiful plants. What it produces is in part 

 known from the species already from time to time intro- 

 duced, chiefly through the exertions of Captain James 

 Mangles, R.N. but what remain behind are far more in- 

 viting:. None but a Botanist, who has examined the dried 

 specimens obtained from this favoured spot, can imagine 

 how lovely is its Flora, what numbers of species, blushing 

 with the most delicate colours, or glowing in all the richness 

 of a climate where the sun is never clouded, still exist there 

 unknown to any but the settler and the savage. All these 

 will find their way to our gardens — by slow degrees, if the 

 attempts at introducing them are confined to one or two 

 individuals — but quickly, if those who have friends and re- 

 lations in the colony will bestir themselves. 



How well they would be repaid for their endeavours may 

 be learned from this beautiful everlasting-flower, common in 



* See fol. 1814. 

 November, 1838. Y 



