The recent plant I have not had the opportunity of see- 
ing: but from the accurate drawing made by Mr. WILLIAM 
Curtis, and with the assistance of native dried specimens 
in my possession, gathered by the late Mr. Lawrence, on 
the summits of the western mountains of Van Diemen’s 
Land, I am able to draw up the following character. 
Descr. Root perennial. Stem eighteen inches or more 
high, simple, terminated by a single, large head of flowers, 
and, as well as the foliage, of a bluish or glaucous colour, 
and clothed with appressed rather silky hairs. Leaves ob- 
long, alternate, gradually smaller upwards, the lower and 
root-leaves much the longest, and broader upwards, so as 
to be spathulate. Capitulum nearly globose, dirty yellow- 
ish-white. Involucre of several imbricated, ovate or obo- 
vate leaflets, margined with brown, as are some of the upper 
leaves. The head of flowers itself, if carefully examined, 
will be seen to be made up of numerous compact smaller 
or partial capitula, each of about five flowers, and sur- 
rounded by about five lanceolate membranaceous scales of 
a partial involucre. Of the florets some appear to be 
neuter, others perfect. Corollas infundibuliform, the tube 
remarkably slender. Germen slender and filiform in the 
abortive florets, obovate, compressed and silky in the fertile 
ones. Pappus of about fourteen sete, which are beauti- 
fully plumose. 
Fig. 1. Partial Capitulum with its Involucre, 2. Single Floret, with one 
of the Scales of the Involucre :—magnified. 
