3)6 Ewart and White: 



bracts, whicK form a general involucre. There are 5-8 partial 

 heads in each compound head, and the whole is 3 to 6 milli- 

 metres in diameter. 



Each partial head is 1 or 2 flowered, and is surrounded bv 6 

 scarious and quite glabrous bracts, of which the two outermost 

 are small, one extremely so, being only just visible to the naked 

 eye. Of the 4 larger surrounding bracts the 2 lateral ones are 

 somewhat conduplicate, and the 2 inner are slightly concave. 

 The partial heads are very shortly stalked. 



The achene is short, nearly as broad as long, with no sign of 

 a break, flattened and covered with fairly long white hairs. 



A pappus is present in the form of a ring of short white 

 bristles surrounding the base of the corolla tube. Base of the 

 floret slightly thickened, corolla 5-toothed, pale yellow in colour, 

 Anthers finely tailed at the base, stj^le branches not thickened, 

 not spreading. 



Cowcowing, W. Australia. Max Koch, Oct., 1904. No. 1196. 



This species was received, marked W. V. Fitzgerald inedit. 

 from both the collector and the Sydney Herbarium. It appears 

 to be a valid new species, but no published description has 

 hitherto been issued. The affinities of the plant are somewhat 

 difficult to define, but in the bracts of its partial heads, and in 

 the pappus, it comes nearest to A. hrachy pappus, F. v. M., 

 and is probably best placed between that species and A. pi euro- 

 pappus, though differing widely from both plants in its external 

 habit and glabrous character. 



AsTEH SUBULATUS, Michx. (Compositae). 



An American weed introduced into Victoria from N.S. Wales, 

 where it is common, and has long been known as A. dmnosus, L. 



As the identification appeared doubtful, in 1906, after con- 

 sulting the Sydney Herbarium, reference was made to Kew, 

 where the identification was confirmed, and the name recorded 

 by me (Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., xix., 34, 1906) on the basis of 

 these authorities. 



The Gray Herbarium, however, refers it to Aster suhulatus, 

 Michx., from specimens forwarded by the Sydney Herbarium. 

 This identification is accepted by Mr. Maiden (Proc. Linn. Soc. 



