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Hab. Juxta Coolgardie repperi mens. Aug. florentem. 
Nec ultra 0:4 cm. alt., plerumque vero humilior. Folia 
radicalia pauca, caulinis similia; caulina modica, 0:5-0'8 em. 
long., ascendentia. Involuerum 0'3 em. long. et diam., puberu- 
lum; squame extime vix 0:2 em. long., intime extimas duplo 
excedentes, omnes scariose et subnitide. Flosculi cirea 12, 
minuti. Corolle pappi setas paullo excedentes. Pappi sete 
presertim sursum dense plumos&, 0°13 cm. long. 
This has somewhat the appearance of a very much reduced 
state of Helipterum hyalospermum, F. Muell., which, as becomes 
a member of the section Euhelipterum, has hemispherical not 
ovoid flower-heads. The heads of the most reduced forms of 
H. hyalospermum are considerably larger and have more florets 
than those of H. verecundum. Moreover the involucral bracts 
are much larger, and their laminar appendages are longer and 
relatively narrower. There are also differences in the florets, 
achenes, and pappus. 
H. Zaccheus, to which it is most closely allied, has oblong 
not ovoid capitula, narrower involucral scales (of which the inner 
have a narrow yellowish-green lamina), papillose achenes with 
10 sets to the pappus, &c. 
HELIPTERUM POLYCEPHALUM, Benth. Gibraltar, September. 
H. extauum, F. Muell. Near Coolgardie, August. An ex- 
iremely small condition, only some 5 mm. high. 
H. DIMORPHOLEPIS, Benth. Near Coolgardie, August ; Gnarl- 
bine, September. 
GNAPHALIUM LUTEO-ALBUM, Linn. Creek N.W. of Wilson's 
pool May. A dwarf state, barely 3 cm. high. 
Q. JAPONICUM, Thunb. Bullabulling, September. A small 
form not exceeding 10 cm. in height. 
ERECHTHITES HISPIDULA, DC. Gibraltar, September. 
SENECIO LAUTUS, Forst. Common in the neighbourhood of 
Coolgardie in August. 
S. VULGARIS, Zinn. Abundant in the Coolgardie district in 
springtime; probably introduced. 
