Olearia. | LXII. COMPOSITA. 487 
Queensland. Barren ridges, Upper Burdekin river, F. Mueller ; Cape river, Bow- 
man, 
cory 
voluere hemispherical, slightly glandular, the bracts narrow, mostly acute, in 
b 
longer than the involucre. Achenes silk 
very short bristles. —Hurybia Ferresii, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 18. t. 18 ; Aster 
Ferresii, V. Muell. Fragm. v. 75. 
. N. Australia. Brindley's Bluff, near M‘Donnell Ranges, M“Douall Stuart’s Expedi- 
tion. A single specimen with the flowers scarcely expanded (Herb. P. Mueller). 
60. O. rudis, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 75. An erect shrub or undershrub, 
more or less scabrous or hirsute with rigid septate hairs or rarely nearly gla- 
brous. Leaves obovate-oblong, oblong-cuneate or, broadly lanceolate, obtuse 
i t 
scarcely shorter. Ray-florets narrow, numerous ; disk-florets scarcely so long 
as the involucre. Style-appendages very short. Achenes glabrous or nearly 
%, slightly compressed, strongly striate. Pappus-bristles nearly equal.— 
Eurybia rudis, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 58; Steetz in Pl. Preiss. 1. 418; 
ster exul, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 24; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 75. 
385 - Australia. Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, lst Coll., also n. 35, 89, 181, 
"3: Preiss, m. 63, and others. 
ar. scabra, Very scabrous and hispid. Leaves oblong-cuneate, rarely exceeding 1 in. 
Ce veins branches, Flower-heads rather smaller.—Bwrybia scabra, Benth. in Hueg. 
* S. Wales. Murray desert, near the Murrumbidgee. F. Mueller. : 
Et Wimmera, Dallachy. 
Australia. Memory Cove, R. Brown; Venus and Streaky Bays, Babbage, War- 
Var. glabriuscula. e, obovate-oblong, scabrous, but appearing gla- 
hous. —Wimmera, CS gief en Ne, Rivoli Bay, etc., in S. Australia, F. Mueller. 
T 61. ©. Picridifolia, Benth. An erect shrub, with the rigid pubescence, 
. Mflorescence and flower-heads of O. rudis, of which F. Mueller now thinks it 
“May bea variety, but the leaves are all very narrow-lanceolate or linear, nar- 
S Dwed at the base and quite entire, a form to which I have seen no approach 
| ai »" the varieties of O. rudis.— Eurybia picridifolia, F. Muell. in Linnea, 
8, Australia. Barren hills towards Lake Torrens, F. Mueller. 
$2. 0, arguta, Benth. A shrub or undershrub, of 1 to 2 ft., more or 
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