Composite—Bellis, 235 
aud North America. From the Latin bellus, signifying 
pretty. 
1. B. perénnis (fig. 125). Common Daisy.—The double 
white, crimson, and striped varieties are amongst the prettiest 
of dwarf herbaceous plants, but they seem to be fast going out 
of vogue. Perhaps, like some other fashions, they will again 
come into favour. A handsome variegated form called aucu- 
befolia is worthy of notice. The Hen-and-Chickens Daisy is 
a proliferous variety of this species, in which the flower-heads 
branch out and form several smaller ones. 
9. BRACHYCOME. 
Very near the last genus in structure. Involucral bracts 
membranous at the margin. Receptacle pitted, naked. Fruit 
compressed, surmounted by a very short bristly pappus ; hence 
the name, from Spayvs, short, and «oun, hair. An Australa- 
sian genus of upwards of thirty species. 
1. B. iberidifolia. Swan River Daisy.—An erect glabrous 
annual about a foot high. Leaves pinnate; segments linear. 
Flowers blue or white with a dark centre, about an inch in 
diameter. <A very pretty plant. 
10. GRINDELIA. 
Frutescent or herbaceous plants, often glutinous. Flower- 
heads solitary, terminal, yellow. Pappus composed of 2 to 8 
narrow deciduous bristles. About a dozen species are known. 
The genus was named in honour of a German botanist. The 
species are all American and rather tender. 
1. G. grandiflora.—An erect biennial species a yard or more 
high, branching near the top. Radical leaves spathulate; cauline 
sessile, clasping, dentate. Flower-heads large, ray-florets orange. 
A native of Texas, flowering all the Summer. 
G. squarrésa is a dwarfer species with sharply-toothed leaves 
and single-headed flowering stems; and G. inuloides is an ever- 
green dwarf species. . 
11. SOLIDAGO. 
A genus of upwards of 100 species, chiefly from North 
America. They are usually tall rather coarse-growing herba- 
ceous or frutescent herbs with alternate entire or toothed leaves 
and terminal scorpioid cymes or panicles of yellow flowers in 
small but numerous heads. Receptacle naked. Ray-florets 
