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maculata, in which case the cbaraoteristics of the former are prevailing; 

 the leaves however are generally narrower, the operculum is double like 

 that of E. maculata, and it separates by a clear transverse line ; the wood 

 also was found much lighter in colour than that of the genuine E. coryrn- 

 bosa, and the bark smooth ou the upper portion of the stem as in E. 

 maculata. The flowering time proved later than that of the former ; as 

 many as 16 flowers occur in an umbel ; the fruits are generally not so 

 long as those of E, corymbosa. 



Helipterum TroedeUi. 



Annual, never tall ; upper part of the stems and any branches beset 

 with appressed lanuginous vestiture ; leaves small, copious, from broad- 

 linear to narrow-lanceolar, nearly flat, soon glabrous ; headlets of flowers 

 small, mostly crowded into terminal corymbs ; peduncles very short or 

 even some obliterated ; involucres almost hemi-ellipsoid, terminating in 

 short white laminas ; outer involucral bracts brownish or somewhat colourless, 

 broadish, blunt, glabrous; flowers 12 — 15; corollas ouly moderately widened 

 upwards ; achenes beset with white silk-like vestiture, those of the central 

 flowers imperfectly developed ; pappus white, to about one-third or nearly 

 half its length quite tubulär, thence extending into 6 — 9 imperfectly 

 pennular-plumous bristlets. 



Near the Barrier-Kanges ; Mrs. Irvine. At Leight's Creeks, beyond 

 B eltana ; Mrs. Richards. 



Erect or occasionally somewhat depressed. Height, so far as known, 

 to 7 inches. Stems usually several. Leaves 1 /4— 3 /4 inch long, \g inch 

 bioad or narrower; involucre, irrespective of the laminas, V 4 — V 3 inch long, 

 the latter nearly half that length. Corollas almost totally enclosed, about 

 as long as the pappus. 



Somewhat similar to small forms of H. corymbiflorum, but partly 

 glabrous; allied also to H. strictum, but the leaves much narrower and the 

 peduncles very short; difiering also widely from both and indeed frorn 

 most congeners in the paucity of the bristlets of the pappus, which 

 moreover is more extensively tubulär than that of any other species. The 

 plant shows some external resemblance also to Helichrysum semifertile ; 

 but the pappus is very differeut, and so the indument of the achenes. 



This neat thongh small everlastin is dedicated to Charles Troedel, 

 Esq., an honoured friend of the author through many years, from whose 

 splendid lithographic establishmeut many hundred plates have emanated 

 ior works issued by the Phytologic Department of Melbourne. Accordnig 

 to strict right of piiority the generic name Argyranthus takes precedence 

 over that of Helipterum. 



Helipterum rubellum was found near Mount Caroline by Miss Julia 

 Wells. 



II. incanum and H. moschatum extend to the Warrego ; L. Henry. 

 H. polyphyllum ; southward to the Tweed, Rev. B. Scortechini, 

 and to Narrabri, Betehe. 



H. corymbyflorum ; Bowen-Downs, Ch. Birch. Small specimens with 

 single headlets of flowers sent from the Flinders-River by Mr. Th. Gulliver. 

 Rays rarely rosy-red. Illustrated in Wawra and Beck's „Itinera Princ. 

 Coburg." II. 35, also H. climorjjholepis, II. 36. 



H. pterochaetum; Mulligan-River; W. H. Cornish. 



H. polycephalum; near the Stirling's Range, F. v. M. Occasionally some 

 few of the outer flowers devoid of a pappus. 



II. laeve; Pulpulla, Josephson ; base of Stirling's Range, F. v. M. 

 Corollas very slender. 



H. exiguum; near Swansea, Tasmania; A. Simson. 

 H. dimorplwlepis ; Severn ; Rev. B. Scortechini.] 



ISehrillg, Alfred, Ueber Tundren und Steppen der Jetzt- und Vorzeit, mit be- 

 sonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Fauna. 8°. 266 pp. Mit 1 Abbild, im Text 

 und 1 Karte der Fundorte. Berlin (Ferd. Dümmler) 1890. M. 6.— 



