196 MR. 8. MOORE ON THE FLORA 
PrERIGERON LIATROIDES, Benth., var. REPENS, nob. Between 
Uladdie soak and Yilgangie claypans, March. Between Gibraltar 
and Coolgardie, October. A rather remarkable repent variety, 
exactly like the type except for its habit. 
ELACHANTHUS OCCIDENTALIS, sp. nov. Pusilla, ascendens, 
piloso-pubescens vel puberula, caulibus filamentosis, foliis anguste 
linearibus obtusis sessilibus, capitulis parvis paucifloris, involucris 
demum anguste turbinatis, flosculis sterilibus circa 3, achæniis 
fertilibus anguste obovoideis dense lanatis, pappi setis circa 12 
ovato-lanceolatis achenium subsquantibus. 
Hab. Juxta Coolgardie floret et fructificat mens. Aug. 
Usque ad 3:0 em. alt., plerumque vero humilior, basi ramosa. 
Radix tenuissimus, parum flexuosus, raro ramulosus. Folia 0:5- 
0:7 em. long., radicalia usque ad LO cm., 0:03 em. lat. Capitula 
0'4 cm. long. et lat. Involucri squame exteriores 015-025 cm., in- 
teriores nec ultra 0'35cm. long. Floseuli fæninei circa 8. Antheræ 
basi truncatæ. Achænia sub apice subito attenuata, 0'2 cm. long., 
compressiuseula. Pappi sete brunneæ, paullo ultra 0:2 em. 
long., acuminatæ, brevissime denticulatæ ; flosculorum sterilium 
pappi setæ 2, flore ipso breviores, sursum longiuscule plumosæ. 
This is a second species of a genus which, from the time of its 
foundation in 1852 until now, has remained monotypie. From 
E. pusillus it can be told at once on account of its different 
appearance, it being extremely small, with slender stems, and 
heads not nearly the size of those of Æ. pusillus. These small 
heads are fewer-flowered than is the case with the other species, 
for although Mr. Bentham says “ female florets about 5-9," in 
the head I dissected there were no less than 14; and from cursory 
inspection one gathers that the heads of E. occidentalis are the 
fewer-flowered. The achenes of the new plant, although they 
appear to be not quite ripe, are manifestly the smaller, and are 
differently shaped, and have shoulders under the place of insertion 
of the pappus, the scales of which are differently shaped. The 
pappus-hairs of the sterile florets are, in the cases examined by 
me, two in number, whereas in E. pusillus they are about four; 
the latter, too, are longer both actually and relatively to their 
corollas, and they are not nearly so plumose. 
ANGIANTHUS TOMENTOSUS, Wendl. Coolgardie and Gibraltar, 
September. 
