THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 153 
blue-flowered ‘‘Swan River Daisy,’’ of Western Australia, 
B. iberidifolia, Benth., is already a well-established garden 
favourite, though the white-flowered form of this species 
is not so frequently grown. In a description of this 
species, in Curtis’ Bot. Mag., t., 3876, the following re- 
ference is made to the colour of the flowers:—‘‘The 
variety of colours exhibited by flowers obviously of the 
same species in the Swan River colony is quite extra- 
ordinary, and is a frequent subject of remark by Mr. 
Drummond in his observations on the botany of ‘that dis- 
trict.’’’ (Drummond collected and sent to Kew and 
other European establishments seeds, and numbered sets 
of botanical specimens from Western Australia. — Many 
of the specimens became types, and are quoted under 
Drummond’s numbers by Bentham (Fl. Austr.) and other 
botanists. A lengthy list of plants dedicated to him by 
various authors, together with much interesting inifor- 
mation concerning him, will be found on p. 14, Records 
of Australian Botanists, by J. H. Maiden.) Both B. 
iberidifolia and B. diversifolia have been cultivated in 
British gardens for more than half a century. All the 
species enumerated are hardy in the Port Jackson dis- 
trict, the adaptability to varying environmental condi- 
tions in this group being especially marked. Although 
much of the native vegetation is undoubtedly intractable, 
there are many notable exceptions. A striking example 
of the adaptability of certain species might, a few years 
ago, have been observed in the native flower border at 
the Centennial Park, where ‘‘Snow Daisies’? from Mt. 
Kosciusko, Hibiscus tiliaceus, L., from the northern rivers; 
and ‘‘Salt-bushes’’ from the Western Plains, were grow- 
ing side by side. Many of the Brachycomes form clumps, 
which may be divided in the same manner as those of the 
common garden daisy, Bellis perennis, L., but the ma- 
jority are prolific seed-bearers, and grow so freely from 
seeds that division of the off-sets is hardly worth prac- 
tising. The inadvisability of the use of stimulants in the 
cultivation of indigenous plants is occasionally advanced, 
but this group is certainly benefited by a generous supply 
of well-rotted manure. 
