152 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
do in other parts of the world. A brief review of sanc- 
tuaries and Nature reserves in the other States, and an 
account of what is being done in the way of Wild Life 
Protection in other parts of the world, was given, and the 
address was illustrated with a fine series of lantern views. 
AUSTRALIAN DAISIES. 
By A. A. Hamilton. 
The Australian members of the Daisy family, repre- 
sented by the genus Brachycome, are worthy of the favour- 
able attention of the horticulturist. B. diversifolia, Fisch 
and Mey, has, as the specific name indicates, variable 
_ leaves, ranging from simple on the stem to the much divi- 
ded leaves of the basal rosette, similar to those of the 
“Marguerite Daisy,’”? Chrysanthemum frutescens L.* This 
species is usually found in cool elevated situations; speci- 
mens collected by the writer were obtained near the top 
of Blackheath Glen, but it is more strongly entrenched jn ‘ 
the southern sub-alpine regions in the neighbourhood of 
KGandra, Cooma, Yarrangobilly Caves, ete. An interest- 
ing reference to the eminent botanist, Robert Brown, oc- 
curs in the following note on this species in Edward’s 
Bot. Reg., t. 1025, where it is figured under Pyrethrum 
diversifolium Grah:—‘That it is not a Pyrethrum 
is evident, but we willingly leave it to be determined by 
Mr. Brown, from whom alone any useful information re- 
specting the New Holland Compositae is to be expected.’’ 
A further note, Joc. cit., is as follows:—‘‘It is stated by 
Dr. Hooker to be an annual, but we believe it will prove 
to be a perennial.’’ The experience of the writer is that 
the plants are biennial, or at most, triennial. After the 
second season they commence to deteriorate, the foliage. 
becomes coarse, the stem woody, and the flowers smaller 
and fewer. B. nivalis, Fv.M., from Mt. Kosciusko, has 
delicate fern-like leaves, and is probably the prettiest of 
the “Snow Daisies,’’ though it has several rivals.  B. 
stricta, D.C., is a somewhat shrubby plant, with conspicu- 
ous flowers, found in the coastal area; a patch of plants 
of this species grew on the roadside between Manly and 
Narrabeen, near Deewhy. . There are several other species 
more or less worthy of cultivation, all of which, together 
with those previously mentioned, have white flowers. The 
