Olearia.] Lu. COMPOSITÆ. 475 
Achenes hirsute. Pappus with an external series of very short bristles.— 
mg viscidula, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 50; Aster Siemssenii, F. Muell. Fragm. 
Y. (1. 
| N.S. Wales. 
A Cunningham ; near Goulburn, C. Moore. 
Near Cook's River, R. Brown ; in the interior, Fraser ; near Illawarra, 
Section III. Ertoraicug, Archer.—Indumentum of the under side of 
e leaves consisting of densely’ imbricate woolly hairs. Leaves alternate. 
— Anthers not auriculate 
Most of the species of this section are remarkable for their small leaves. In some viscid 
species the woolly tomentum nearly disappears, but it always remains sufficiently conspicuous 
ou the under side of the leaves to distinguish them from those of the section Adenotriche. 
E O. tubulifiora, Benth. A tall shrub, with numerous erect virgate 
aches i 
ES often, clustered in the axils, mostly 4 to 1 in. long, the margins revo- 
ute, glabrous or scabrous- pubescent above. Flower-heads small, sessile or 
c 
nearly so in the axils, and shorter than the floral leaves. Involu id, 
inder 2 lines long, the bracts very obtuse.  Ray-florets 3 or 4, shorter than 
the undivided part of their style, tubular or scarcely expanded into a minute 
ictoria. Mount M‘Ivor, F. Mueller, | 
Australia. Lake Alexandrina, St. Vincent's Gulf, Lofty Ranges, etc., F. Mueller, 
Hillebrand, Blandowski 
DE 
h urybia artemisioides, Sond. in Linnea, xxv. 456, or Aster artemisivides, F. Muell. 
Y. D D 2 
0. tubuliflora, but Sonder describes the ligula of the ray florets as equal to its 
"Fame as O, 
SE suggests that it is a variety of O. ramulosa, and that is probably the case with 
"à F. Mueller’s specimens from Lake Alexandrina, where the two species appear to grow 
t o. axillaris, P Muell Fragm. v. 64. An erect much-branched 
m of 3 to 6 ft., more or less hoary or white with a elose woolly tomentum. 
lien from obovate or oblong-cuneate and 1 to 4 in. long to linear or linear- 
late and 1 to 2 in. long, obtuse, entire, with revolute margins, woolly- 
E 3 " ^ 
: ^od on both sides or glabrous and shining above. Flower-heads sessile in 
. axils, and shorter than the floral leaves, or very rarely 1 or 2 together on 
sh 
7^ F. Muell. Fragm. v. 64. 
Victoria. co Dampier’s Archipelago, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham. 
Common on the sandy seacoasts, F. Mueller and others. 
