52 NATIVE FLOWERS OF VICTORIA. 
myrsinoides, is growing in favour, and it is now 
advertised in English catalogues. 
One of the synonyms of Aster is Olearia, and plants 
of this genus are often so termed. Thus the last- 
mentioned plant may also be Olearia myrsinoides. A 
very closely related species is Olearia speciosa, a 
Grampian plant. These shrubs are aU suited to 
ordinary garden soils. 
Aster exul is found in the dry district coun- 
try. It has large individual flowers, pure white, 
and carried in flne distinctive clusters. The Alpine 
Daisy, Celmisia longifolia, sometimes called Aster 
celmisia, found only in the mountain regions, is cer- 
tainly a handsome plant. Its leaves, springing from 
the root crown, covered particularly on the backs with 
a mat of silvery and velvety hairs, form a crown 
from which rise the silvery stems, often a foot high, 
with large white terminal daisy flowers, many spring- 
ing from one tuft or crown of foliage. The white 
flowers, which are frequently two inches across, are 
tipped with purple on the back of the ray florets. 
The Alpine regions are gay with masses of this flower 
in January. 
The little Daisies are so plentiful everywhere and 
withal so modest, growing and trailing in low situa- 
tions, shining among grass and herbage, of shades of 
heliotrope, gradually merging and fading to white; 
they are true Australian representatives of their 
Scotch relation of which Robert Burns wrote : 
“Wee, modest, erimson-tippM flower, 
Thou’st met me in an evil hour; 
