BRACHYCOME IBERIDIEOLIA.-— IBERIS-LEAVED BRACHYCOME. 
Class XIX. SYNGENESIA. Order I. SUPERFLUA. 
Natural Order, COMPOSITE 
Capitule many flowered, heterogamous, florets of the ray in a single series, ligulate, pistilliferous, those 
of the disk tubulose, hermaphrodite. The scales of the campanulate, involute in few rows, and membranous 
at the margins. Receptacle conical, slightly pitted. The corollas of the ray ligulate, those of the disk 
tubulose, with the limb five-toothed. Anthers devoid of a tail. Achenia (seed vessels,) flattish, compressed, 
without a beak. Pappus very short, occurring in the form of a bristly crown. 
A perennial herbaceous plant, smooth throughout; stem erect, branched, leaves pinnately cut, segments 
linear-subulate, distinct, entire. Peduncles naked, bearing a single capitule. Scales of the involucre oblong, 
somewhat pointed and membranous at the top. Florets of the ray tubulose, tube somewhat bulging, and 
hairy below, limb smooth, five toothed. Stamens five, anthers syngenesian, and devoid of an appendix. 
Style one, stigmata two, club-shaped and hairy. Achenia flattish, club-shaped, and crowned by a scanty, 
bristly pappus or seed down. 
This is one of the plants discovered on the Swan River, on the west coast of New Holland, by Baron 
Hugel. It is called the Large Swan (River ?) Daisy, from its resemblance, in its botanical characters, to the 
genus Beilis, from which, when the pappus is entirely wanting, as occasionally occurs with this species, it 
scarcely differs, save in the membranous tips of the scales of the involucre. Though we hail it as a pleasing 
accession to our already rich store of cultivated flowers, we much question whether the settlers on the Swan 
River will accept of it as a substitute for the daisy of their native land, with all its touching associations 
and poetical enchantments, and which has possessed a charm and an interest for the self-exiled missionary, 
scarcely to be understood, save by those long severed from their native strand. The devoted and accom- 
plished missionary, Dr. Carey, while at Mysore, 
“Where Flora’s giant offspring tower 
In gorgeous liveries all the year.” 
cherished an English Daisy with an almost passionate regard. He thus wrote to a friend in Yorkshire: — 
“With great labour have I preserved the common field daisy, which came up in some English earth, for 
six or seven years, but my whole stock is now only one plant. I have never been able, even with sheltering 
them, to preserve an old root through the rains, but I get a few seedlings every year. The proportion of 
small plants in the country is very inconsiderable, the greater number of our vegetable productions being 
either large shrubs, immense climbers, or timber trees . 55 
This Brachycome was introduced by means of seeds sent to Mrs. Wray, of the Oaklands, near Chel- 
tenham. It flowers abundantly in the open border, but is so intolerant of wet, that to ensure its preser- 
vation, it should be taken up, and transferred to the green-house, in autumn.* 
James Montgomery, struck with the passionate regard of Dr. Carey for the daisy, has expressed as 
follows, the sentiments which he supposed the missionary might feel, at the sight of this flower: — 
Thrice welcome, little English flower ! 
My mother-country’s white and red, 
In rose or lily, till this hour, 
Never to me such beauty spread : 
Transplanted from thine island-bed, 
A treasure in a grain of earth, 
Strange as a spirit from the dead, 
Thine embryo sprang to birth. 
Thrice welcome, little English flower ! 
Whose tribes, beneath our natal skies, 
Shut close their leaves while vapours lower ; 
But, when the sun’s gay beams arise, 
With unabas h ’d but modest eyes, 
Follow his motion to the west, 
Nor cease to gaze till daylight dies, 
Then fold themselves to rest. 
* We have borrowed this description from Mr. Maund's agreeable work “ The Botanist.” 
