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indumentum is omg ES pe from that of any other section. It is only 
an iti is very close an as in O. viscidula, that it requires some care to distinguish 
it from that of the dona y nmi 
EO; stellulata, DC. Prod. v. 252. An erect shrub of 3 to 5 ft. 
ie alternate, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or aeute, more or less sinuate- 
toothed or rarely almost entire, glabrous scabrous or stellate-hairy above, 
White or rusty underneath with a Men stellate tape a eh in size 
from all under $ in. in some specimens to abo others 
Heads in the cage form rather ze? in leafy idi. "holen "quits 
e ay-florets about S to 12; disk-florets rather numerous. 
Anthers scarcely Eë Style-appendages gege eat? See more 
or less hirsute. Pappus with a distinct external series of short bristles.— 
Aster stellulatus, Geet Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 50. t. 196 ; Eurybia aget Cass. ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Tas i. 175 ; Diplostephium stellulatum, een t Sp. As t. 
187; Aster phlogopappus, ‘abil Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. "195; ; A. phlogo- 
ein, Spreng. Syst. iii. -— — eue Go (DC.); Dip- 
lostephium phlogotrichum, Nees, Gen. et Sp. Ast. 186; Olearia phlogopappa, 
C. Prod. v. 272; Eurybia Canaan DC. Prod. v. 268 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tas 
1175; E subrepanda, DC. Le 
Queensland, Port Bowen, R. Brown ; Mount Hedlow, near Rockhampton, Da//achy. 
P N. S, Wales. Hastings river, Fraser ; Twofold Bay, F. Mueller; Gabo Island, 
aplestone, 
CH letoria. Australian Alps and Wilson's Promontory, F. Mueller, near Melbourne, 
oe nia. Port prato end islands of Bass's Straits, R. Brown; very common 
ughout the isla ud, J. D. Hoo 
_ Var, canescens. Leaves ée entire, $ p s in. long, hoary-tomentose on both 
ies —Apsle y river, Fraser; Severn river, New En ngland, C. Stuart. 
ar, lirata, Leaves la nefolate, 2 to 5 in. long, nim toni by the impressed veins, 
"its ob iiy sinuate-toothed or almost enti e deeg cam, Ne — m 
Aster liratus, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1509; Di eent ium Ee um, 
eg 188; eler DC. PA v. 267; D^ f Fl. Tasm, i. 175. t 43.—Vie- 
vaad Tasmania, R. Brown, J. D. Hooker, F. Mueller, and other 
» at. Quereifolia, Leaves oblon , obtuse, entire or sais toothed, l to 3 in. long, very 
m bullate, Very scabrous above, deusely stellate-tomentose I rufous underneath. 
` Men quercifolis, Sieb. Pl. Ex. ; Km vi quercifolia, DC. P. GE ve rugosa, 
= Arch. in Journ. Linn. Soc. —Blue Mountains, e n. 340, A. Cunning- 
and others; Victoria, F. Mueller ; CES R. Bro 
8. O. aster rotricha, F. — Fragm. v.79. A shrub, rough with 
A stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, oblong-linear, very “obtuse 
M margins, more or less Sege toothed, mostly 8 to 1$ in. long, 
h very sc abrous above, tomentose underneath. Flower-heads rather 
i itary and terminal, or several in a terminal corymb. Inyolucre 
disk hemispherical, often above 4 lin. diameter. Ray-florets often above 20 ; 
-florets GE exceeding the inner bracts. Anthers, E achenes, and 
ula 
; Aster asterotrichus, F. Muell ragm. v. 79. 
land, p eo eg river, Grampians, Mount Disappoinkineal, Dandenong ranges, Gipps’ 
Y 
A parvifolia, Leaves mostly under 4 in. long. 
