482 LXII. COMPOSIT/£. [ Olearia.’ 
usually distant, linear-oblong, obtuse, entire or with a few coarse teeth or on 
barren shoots cuneate and lobed, mostly 2 to 1 in. long. Flower-heads 
small, in a loose leafy panicle or almost solitary. Involucre ovoid-turbinate, 
imbricate, the inner bracts about 3 lines long. Ray-florets 6 to 8; disk- 
florets slightly exceeding the involucre. —Style-branches rather long, but 
with short lanceolate appendages. Achenes silky-hairy. Pappus-bristles 
unequal.— Eurybia decurrens, DC. Prod. v. 269. 
S. Wales. Lachlan river, A. Cunningham; Darling and Murray desert, Victorian 
Expedition and others. 
S. Australia. Port Lincoln, R. Brown, Wilhelmi ; Spencer’s Gulf, F. Mueller. 
3. O. glutinosa, Benth. A bushy shrub of 3 to 5 ft., very glutinous, 
but otherwise glabrous. Leaves narrow-linear, acute or obtuse, 4 to 1} in. 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, Mise. 68; E linifolia, Hook. f. in Hook 
Journ. vi. 109, and Fl. Tasm. i. 179 ; E glutescens, Sond. in Linnea, MT 
462; Aster glutescens or Olearia glutescens, V. uell. Fragm. v. 775 e? 
orarius or Olearia oraria, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 78 (in an older state). 
Victoria. Port Phillip, R. Brown; from the mouth of the Glenelg to Wilson’s Pro 
montory, F. Mueller and others. islands of 
Tasmania. Sandy seacoasts in the northern parts of the island and in the 
Bass’s Straits, J. D. Hooker and others. ; Vi 
S. Austr Murray river near Moorundi and Lofty Ranges, Wilhelmi; Take "P 
toria and Port Gawler, F. Mueller. 
ft., glabrous 
44, O. passerinoides, Benth. A bushy shrub of 1 to 2 
and glutinous. Leaves crowded, linear, erect, obtuse, with somewhat revolute 
margins, but the broad midrib exposed, mostly 2 to 3 lines long Wan 
heads small, sessile within the last leaves. Involucres ovoid, 
about 24 lines long. Ray-florets about 6 to 8 ; disk-florets rather more wn? 
rous, not exceeding the involucre. Style-appendages short. Achenes sho 
airy. Pappus-bristles unequal.— Diplopappus passerinoides, Tors. MEL 
s 1851. ii. 63; Aster vernicosus or Olearia vernicosa, F. Muell. Frag 
v. : 
W. Aus ount Bariy 
Eyre and Phillips ranges, Mar j, and el 
with more acute bracts. of 2 to 
45. O. teretifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. v.77. A bushy shrub 9 “ihe 
5 ft., glabrous and viscid. Leaves linear, erect, closely appressed, Gs 
margins closely revolute so as to be nearly terete, usually not ex 
ften 2 
on the floweri ines long 0n uM 
ng branches, looser and often line ci 9 lines b" — 
Flower-heads small, terminal, sessile. Involucre ovoid, not 
ding 1b" — 
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