appendix. Style one, stigmata two, club-shaped and hairy. Ache- 
nia flattish, club-shaped, and crowned by a scanty, bristly pappus or 
seed-down. 
Popular and Geographical Notice. 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 en¬ 
chantments, 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 accomplished 
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 pre¬ 
served 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.” 
Introduction j Where grownj Culture. Introduced by means 
of seeds sent to Mrs. Wray, of the Oaklands, near Cheltenham, to whom 
we are indebted for the specimen now figured. It flowers abundantly 
in the open border, but is so intolerant of wet, that to ensure its pre¬ 
servation, it should be taken up, and transferred to the greenhouse, in 
autumn. 
Derivation of the Names. 
Brachycome, from /3pa%ug short; and koixt } hair, alluding to the short pappus. 
IberiDIFOLIA, from iberis, a kind of candy tuft, and folium a leaf. 
Synonyme. 
Brachycome iberidtfolia. Bentham in HugePs Enumeration of the Swan 
River Plants, p. 59, No. 198. Botanical Register, 1841, fig. 9, 
