Olearia.| LXII. COMPOSITAE. 485 
-W. Australia. Near Cape Riche, Preiss,.». 82, Harvey. Apparently a variable 
species, gek to distinguish on the one hand ci 0. ailenoltein - e the other from 
0. heleophila, and some glabrous ponien coming even near to O. iméricata. Si ngst 
numerous specimens of Drummond’s, we should pr robabl y refer to O. mu erer n. 77, 85, 3rd 
Coll, n. 127 (which is Burybia | eptop yl, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1851, i. n. sa Gi per- 
haps also 5th Coll. n. 384, the latter, however, possibly a form of O. imb 
. 52. O. strigosa, Benth. An erect, DE undershrub of 
l to 3 ft., more or - hispid with short septate hairs intermixed with a 
slight glandular tein nce. Leaves linear, mucronate-acute, with revolute 
te. 
scarcely exceeding the ae: Achenes SS Deity. Pappus unequal.— 
Eurybia strigosa, Steetz Preiss. i. 419; Z. aspera, Steetz, l. e. 42 
Aster Steetzit or Olearia Seti, I Muell. Fragm. v. 66. 
W. Australia. Vasse river, P 83, also a single speeimen, without the locality 
gre, in me Collection. The pets appears to be very nearly allied to the last 
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O. paucidentata, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 66. An undershrub or 
arab of 2 to 8 ft., seabrous-pabescet or hispid with short septate hairs and 
often somewhat viscid; Leaves oblong-linear or oblanceolate an nd 4 to 1 in. 
long o or shorter and obovate, Pro narrowed into a petiole, with 1 or 2 pro- 
minent teeth or lobes on ea sch side or Se? entire, the margins Que 
recurved. Flower-heads rather small, on peduneles usually longer than the 
leaves, forming a terminal leafy panicle. Involucre hemispherical, the bracts 
do involuere, Style-appendages short. Achenes pubescent. Pappus rather 
D tt, slightly unequal, with sometimes a very few short outer bristles.— 
d Join Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 420; ster paucidentatus, 
Fragm. v. 66 
B8. Austr e rex River, Drummond, lst Coll., also n. 31, 34, aud 4th Coll. n. 
i Preiss, n, 74, 84, and n. 80 in part ; Franklin n and Blackwood rivers, Oldfield 
ag latifolia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 172; Plantagenet and Stirling ranges, RS 
"T © species varies much in the breadth of the leaf, the more or less copious indumentum, 
1^ the size of the flower-heads 
4. O. stricta, Benth, An erect undershrub or shrub, of 1 to 3 ft., 
zë branched very glandular- Geen Ae t and hirsute with shor! septate 
clus inear, flat or with recurved margins, not exceedin ng 3 in., often 
ete î wae ‘the axils. Mosor kadr ege short A Tiarat iha, and 
luere Within the last leaves, forming a long, narrow, leafy panicle. Invo- 
hemispherical, with narrow, herbaceous, acute bracts, the inner ones 
; à 3 lines long. Ray-florets 12 to 15; disk-florets not longer than the 
S SC Sigh m pubescent. Pappus of nearly equal bristles, with 
Dot m 
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