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Definitiom of Bare or hitherto Undescrihed Australian Plants, 

 cJiif^y collected withm the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria ; by 

 Dr. Ferdinand Mueller, Government Botanist for the Colony 



of Victoria. 



{Continued from p. 150.) 



Antennaria, Gmrtner. {Sect. Actina.) 



Scales of the involucre radiating. Heads of the fertile plants with 

 several rows of female flowers in circumference, and with hermaphrodite 

 ones in the centre. Heads of the sterile plants with only hermaphro- 

 dite flowers, a few rarely fertile. Pappus at the extremity clai^ellate, 

 with the exception of that of the female flowers, which is not thickened. 



113. Antennaria uniceps,'S.MM^][,\ depressed, rooting, densely fo- 

 liate ; leaves subcoriaccous, somewhat rigid, channelled-linear, acute 

 mucronulate, glabrous • petioles clasping, scarious, woolly fringed ; ^ 

 flower-heads solitary, almost sessile ; scales of the involucre glabrous, 

 somewhat red, at the base green, the outer ones ovate, inner ones 

 narrow- lanceolate, not radiating; pappus of the sterile flower-heads 

 scabrous, very slightly thickened at the apex. 



Hab. On gravelly places near springs, or such as are subject to in- 

 undations in the Muayang Mountains (5-6000 feet). 



A small tufted herb, of some resemblance with Baoulia lentncatdis , 

 The fertile flowers are yet unknown. 



114. Antennaria ww^^y^wa,* P. Muelh ; stems herbaceous, creeping, 

 corymbose, short, upright, csespitose ; leaves dense, flat, oblong or 

 ovate-cuneate, somewhat acute, entire, spreading, clasping at the base, 

 one-nerved, on both sides covered Avith a thin, appressed, silver-grey 

 toment; flower-heads terminal, generally solitary, sessile; involucres 

 hemispherico-campanulate ; its scales smooth, acute, entire, the middle 

 ones lanceolate-oblong, white at the top; achcnia tereti-oblong, sca- 

 brous. . 



Hab. On the rocky summits of the Cobboras 'Mountains, covered 

 nearly tliroughout the year with snow. 



A truly alpine species, like most others of this interesting genus, 

 formerly not found represented in Australia, unless erroneously referred 



by CandoUe to Gnaphalium (as G. catipes). 



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