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Daisy. — BELLIS. (Natural Order, Composite.) P. 34. 

 — This favourite perennial is well known. The cultivated 

 kinds produce double flowers. 



Dandelion.— TARAXACUM. (Natural Order, Com- 

 posite.) Pp. 32, 34, 54, 188. — A very common weed, 

 naturalized in almost every civilised country, and very 

 abundant in Australia. The root is used medicinally. 

 The Cape Weed {Cryptostemmci) is very often mistaken in 

 Victoria for the Dandelion. 



Danubian Reed. — See pp. 17, 101, 191, and Glossary, 

 ■ Bamboo.' 



Date-palm.— PHCENIX DACTYLIFERA. (Natural 

 Order, Palme.) Pp. 64, 185. 



Denis. — (Natural Order, Leguminose.) See chapter 

 ' Australian Vegetation,' p. 90. 



Desert Pine. — See chapter ' Australian Vegetation,' p. 85 ; 

 also Glossary, ' Murray Pine.' 



Digger's Delight. — VERONICA PERFOLIATA. 

 (Natural Order, Scrophularinee.) P. 30. — A pretty, 

 blue -flowering shrub, with smooth stem -clasping leaves ; 

 found in the mountainous districts of Victoria and New 

 South Wales, and deriving its common name from a 

 supposition that its presence indicated auriferous country. 

 It is plentiful in the elevated gold regions of Australia. A. 

 beautiful white-flowering species, with bright green serrated 

 leaves ( Veronica Derwentice), occurs in Fern gullies in 

 Victoria and on moist hillsides in the Mount Lofty Ranges, 

 Adelaide, notably along the banks of the Onkaparinga. 

 It deserves cultivation for its really ornamental appearance. 

 There are between seventy and eighty species and varieties 

 indigenous to New Zealand. 



