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AUSTRALIAN PLANTS 



104. Bradiy come pt^chocarpa.Y, 'MvieW,; annual, glabrous; scaj)es 

 filifoiTD, generally naked ; leaves pinnatisected, with linear-acute seg- 

 ments; scales of the involucre blunt, ciliolate; achenia very small, 

 brown, surrounded by a ciliolate wing, on both sides with three liairy- 

 scabrous ribs, the middle rib more prominent ; pappus minute. 



Hab. In the Buffalo Mountains. 



Like the following, a small tender herb. 



105. Brachycome nivalis] 'F , 'Mud] , ; perennial, herbaceous, smooth; 

 leaves all radical, somewhat carnose, pinnatisected or rarely entire, on 

 long petioles, their segments distant, linear, entire or pinnatipartite, 

 acute; rachis linear; stems simple, much longer than the leaves, naked 

 or with a solitary bractea; scales of the involucre lanceolate-oblong, 

 with ciliate torn margins ; receptacle hemispherical ; achenia compressed, 

 oblong-cuneate, with a conspicuous pappus; those of the disc very 

 narrowly winged ; those of the ray surrounded with a broad, torn 

 membrane, on both sides slightly convex, rough towards the summit. 



Hab. On the highest summits of the Australian Alps, in grassy or 

 peaty soil; for instance, on Mount BuUer and the Cobboras Mountains, 

 A remarkable species, often tinged with a purple hue. 



106. Tirv^chycome muUicaulis.Y.'Miiellr, suflfi'uticose, somewhat sca- 

 brous ; stems numerous, ascending, foliate, simple or a little branched, 

 naked towards the summit; leaves nearly sessile, pinnatifid, their 

 segments linear, acute, close to each other, short in the upper leaves; 

 scales of the involucre cuneate-oblong, somewhat scabrous, blunt, with 

 membranaceous ciliate-torn margins ; receptacle convex ; achenia com- 

 pressed, oblong-cuneate, with a very short pappus, those of the disc 

 with very nan-ow hardly ciliolate wings, those of the ray with broader 

 somewhat callose margins, rough towards the summit. 



Hab. On the highest cliffs of Mount Bullet. 



107. Brachycome cJirysoglossa, P. Muell. ; perennial, glandulously 

 pubescent ; leaves only on the lovrer part of the stem, oblong-cuneate, 

 at the top rounded or truncate, with a few notches ; scales of the invo- 

 lucre blunt, obovate, with a broad membranaceous torn-ciliate margin, 

 glandulous on the back; ray golden-coloured ; achenium tawny-yellow, 

 margined, compressed, surrounded by a broad, irregularly petinate-cili- 



atc wing, thickened and somewhat scabrous on the disc; pappus con- 

 spicuous. 



Hab. In the Mallee Scrub towards the north-western boundaries of 

 the colon v. 



