Olearia.) LXII. COMPOSITAE. 477 
| usually obtuse, with recurved or revolute margins, glabrous or scabrous-pu- 
| bescent above, the under surface with more or less: of a thin intricate wool, 
or sometimes the thin loose wool covering the whole plant. Flower-heads 
` small, very numerous, usually sessile or terminating very short lateral leafy 
peduncles or branchlets, forming long leafy spikes or racemes ^ be. h 
| nches. Involuere ovoid, mAT imbricate, eg x lines lon y- 
m some Senecionide, but papillose only not hispid. Achenes short, eves 
compressed, striate or 4-angled, hairy or rarely glabrous. Pappus with a 
outer series of short bristles, but sometimes very | few only. 
re are two pee forms, which are often distinguished as species, but only differ iu 
the shape of the lea 
a. microphylla. Te eaves Se or oblong, 1 to 2 lines long. Flower-heads small.— 
Aster micr Mt Vent. Jard. Malm. under n. 83; Diplostephium microphyllum, Nees, 
Gen. et Sp. Ast, 191; Eurybia Seier "e DC. Prod. v. 270. 
S. ke, Port Ja aps n to pe Blue Mountains, A R. E Sieber, n. 338, and 
fie: n. 514, ed ER seit Eege ver, A. Cunningha 
unis. /, 1 to 6 lines ess —Aster ramulosus and A. aculeatus, 
laii. DR Nor id D E P t. 198, 200; A. exasperatus, Link, Enum. Hort. Bero l. 
ii, oe EC Sech said to be Téous the Cape); M once aculeatum, Nees, Gen. et 
and D. pee Nees, Le 193; Hurybia m C. Prod. v. 270; Hook. f. 
; th 178; E pro inqua, E. RH and E. epileia, DC. Le: E. ericoides, Steetz 
. i. 493. 
: dann New Englond, C. Stuart; Mudgee, Woolis (with glabrous glandular 
Victoria, Port Phillip, R. Brown; abundant from the Glenelg to Gipps' Land, F. 
Mueller and others dee Dallachy ; in Em Grampians (very rig id, with small flower- 
=), F. Mueller ; Mount K m ze? en t M‘Ivor (with long very scabrous or woolly 
“a ad larger lowered) F. M. 
Derwent river, Pot Dip. islands of Bass's Straits, R. Brown; 
en throughout the island, J. D. H 
SÉ Australia. S. coast, R, Bro voli, Holdfast and Guichen bays, F. Mueller ; 
d Cove, R. Bow (with thicker eege aves). 
8. O. flori A much-branched shrub of 4 to 6 ft., 
vi numerous very yen clustered leaves and a P rofusion of small flower- 
SN on very short leafy branchlets, forming leafy racemes collected into 
ge dense pyramidal panicles ; closely allied to O. ramulosa, differing in the 
long. Plorets about 6 to 10, of which 3 to 4 ligulate, their structure 
Sa as the achenes and pappus as in O. ramulosa. ——Euryb ia floribunda, 
mé f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 109, and Fl. Tasm. i..179. t. 45 ; Aster flo- 
Minas F. Muell. Fragm. v. 82. 
i; Al , F. Mue 
ne De in reg I aceite ag E edi s D uin D 
S. Australia, E Cove, R. Brown. 
29. O. lepidophylla, Benih. A much-branched shrub of 3 to 6 ft., 
