46 Tloncultural and Botanical Notices, 



bracteatum, but is much handsomer : " he has not stated in what. 

 The following particulars on it are derived from the description 

 and figure: — Stem, 2ft. high, bearing a branched head; but 

 whether additionally to the height of 2 ft., or as part of it, is not 

 stated : stem, glabrous ; branchlets, hairy ; leaves, linear-lanceo- 

 late, at the base obtuse, and, in some instances, almost heart- 

 shaped ; upper leaves, awl-shaped ; all the leaves ciliate on the 

 edge, at least at the base ; and roughish on the upper face (surface, 

 in contradistinction to the lower face, subface), it may be supposed 

 with hairs ; heads of flowers (flowers in the language of those not 

 versed in botanic language) borne singly on the tips of branch- 

 lets. The application of the epithet bicolor is not explained. 

 "Introduced by Mr. Low of the Clapton Nursery." [Dot. Reg., 

 Dec.) 



2361. BE'LLIS. 



*integrifolia M.r. entire-leafed O P>" I jnj' W Purplish Y Shady hills and banks of rivers 

 inTenesiee. {Michaux.) Arkansa Prairies. {Nuttall.) Abundant in some parts of Kentucky. 

 {Dr. Short.) Rio Brazos and San Felipe de Austin in Texas. {Drummond.) 1834? S It Bot. 

 mag. 3455. 



The daisy of America. Michaux was the first to record a notice 

 of this species. Subsequently certain other botanists had not met 

 with it; " and a general opinion prevailed, that no species of our 

 favourite daisy was to be found in the New World." {Hooker.) 

 The localities that are cited above, additional to that by Michaux, 

 are sufficient to show that this opinion has ceased to be well- 

 founded. Mr. Drummond " sent numerous specimens and seeds." 

 From the latter, Mr. Murray [curator of the Gla.sgow Botanic 

 Garden] has raised plants, which blossomed in a cool frame, and 

 in the open air, during . . . June and July." The more obvious 

 of the features of J5ellis integrifolia are these : — Stems rarely 

 simple and unbranched, generally branched ; and, frequently, 

 many arise from the same root, and are spreading and ascending; 

 branches filiform ; leaves oblong or spathulate, entire; pedun- 

 cles terminal upon the stem or branches, elongated, naked, each 

 bearing a single head of flowers, that, before the flowers expand, 

 has a pendulous position. Corollas of the ray fourteen to twenty, 

 white, with a purple tinge, especially on the outside; the outline 

 of the ray exceeds in extent the breadth of a sixpenny piece. 

 {Bot. Mag., Dec.) 



2«8. CALLIO'PSIS. [co Sw. fl. gar. 2. s. 315 



* 22016a Drummondji D. Don Drummond's O or 2 s Y with a reddish-brown spot ... 1835 S 



" We have named the species after its indefatigable discoverer, 

 the late Mr. Thomas Drummond, whose zeal and talents so 

 eminently fitted him for a successful collector." (Z). Don.) " Not 

 less ornamental than the more common Calliopsis bicolor [Core- 

 6psis tinctoria Nut."], which it much resembles in habit, but from 

 which it differs," in points deemed characteristic of the condition 

 of a species. " It is, like that species, a hardy annual of easy cul- 

 ture, perfecting its seeds freely in the open border." The figure 



