SUN-FLOWER, 
OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
WITHOUT any other knowledge of the 
structure and growth of this plant, than what 
is conveyed by the figure, which we can rely 
on being accurately drawn from nature, we 
incline to call it the Sun-Flower of New 
South Wales : a name which, till it's botanical 
characters be better known, may do. quite as 
well as any other. Some botanists, indeed, 
on seeing the drawing, have rather supposed it 
to be a species of what is commonly called the 
Ox-Eyed Daisy. The leaf, however, it must 
be confessed, neither resembles that, nor the 
Sun-Flower; so that, probably, it is, in truth, 
essentially different from both. 
The original drawing, which represented 
the flower of the natural size, was about eight 
inches high. A Memorandum beneath tells 
us, that " this plant flowers in September and 
October." It also says — " This charming 
flower, 
