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Lindberg, G. A., Rliypsalis Regnelli G. A. Lindberg n. sp. Hierzu Abb. 29—32. 



(Gartenflora. Jabrg.'xXXIX. 1890. Heft 5. p. 118.) 

 Migabe, K., The flora of the Kurile Islands. (Memoirs of the Boston Society 



of Natur. History. Vol. IV. 1890. No. 7. p. 203—275 und Karte.) 

 Mueller, Ferdinand Baron von, Record of two New Victorian Highland Compo- 



6ites. (From the Victorian Naturalist. 1890. February.) 



Hellch rysum Sfirlinqi. 



[Thall , shrubbj', soniewhat viscid; leaves chaitaceous, short stalked, 

 narrow- or elongate-lanceolar, gradually long-pointed, flat, entire, above 

 dark green and nearly glabrous, beneath as well as the branchlets and 

 peduncles beset with closely interwoven greenish- or greyish-white short 

 iiairlets ; carinular venule prominent , besides two longitudinal thinner 

 upwards evaniscent venules nearer the margin of the leaves ; panicle of 

 headlets soniewhat corymbous, terminating branchlets; headlets rather 

 small, nearly hemispherical ; invohicre much depressed, its outer consti- 

 tuting bracts pale-brownish, from orbicixlar to ovate, bearing soft partly 

 lanuginous hairlets ; inner involucral bracts terminating eaeh in an elliptic- 

 cuneate white conspicuous lamina; receptacle almost flat, glabrous; flowers 

 numerous, some few of the outer estaminate ; acheues somewhat papillular- 

 rough ; bristlets of pappus thickened and slightly denticulated at and near 

 ■the Upper end. 



On shrubby declivities between the Ovens-River and Mount Hotham, 

 at elevations between 3000 and 4000 feet. 



A slender shrub, attaining a height of ten feet, of strong rather pleasant 

 odor, Leaves to four inches long, to one inch broad. Inflorescens attai- 

 ning a widtli of five inches. Headlets about half au inch broad. Expan- 

 ding lamina nearly or fuUy as long as the other portion of the inner 

 involucral bracts. Pappus-bristlets slightly exceeding the coroUa. Achenes, 

 when well matured, somenhat furrowed. 



Ivrespective of ni}^ noticing this plant on a luie, new to nie, during a 

 receut excursion of members ot the Australian Association for the Advance- 

 meut of Science to the Australian Alps, sprigs of this new shrub were then 

 also gathered iudepeiidently by Mr. C h. Frost and by Mr. Gustafsen. 

 Ihe species has been dedicated to Mr. James Stirling, the Government 

 -Geologist, who not onlj' has been identified with scientific highlands- 

 exploratJons in Victoria for a series of years, but who also as the leader of 

 the alpine party of the association, by hys energy, circunispectne.'^s and 

 geniality won the highest praise of all, who shared in this particular 

 pleasurable exploit, so thnt this opportunity is gladly seized oo, to comme- 

 morate pernianently his honoured name also in the Vegetation of our 

 higliland-regions. 



Systematically Ihis species is to be placed near H. ferrngineum, from 

 ■which this new congener ditfers however widely in extensive viscid exu- 

 dation, in larger leaves still paler beneath, in much larger and accordingly 

 few headlets with inore numerous flowers, in involucres broader than long, 

 in pappus-bristlets more conspicuously thickened at and near the summit. 

 As regards general aspect, our uew plant resembles far more some species 

 of Anaphalis, particularly the Indian A. chmamon'ea and the New Zealandian 

 Ä. trlnervis, but the headlets of flowers are monomorphous on all the 

 specimens exaniined, nor have the two last mentioned plants clavellate 

 pappus-bristlets, leaving other diversities out of consideration. 



Aster Frostii. 



Somewhat woody, rather dwarf, closely beset with intricate stellular 

 hairlets ; leaves from ovate- to cuneate-elJiptic, almost sessile, entire or 

 imperfectly denticulated, soniewhat recurved at the margin, paler on the 

 lower side than on the surface ; headlets of flowers relatively large, singly 

 terminal or occasionally two or few together, conspicuously stalked; in- 

 volucral bracts in about two rows, of nearly equal length, from linear- to 

 narrow-lanceolar, bearing a dense vestiture; receptacle alveolar; flowers 

 in each headlet very numerous, the marginal flowers with conspicuous blue 

 or white corollar expansions : achenes glabrous ; pappus-bristlets ciliolar- 

 serrulated, the outer extremely short. 



Ou Mount Hotham, at au elevation of about 6000 feet. 



