Celmisia.) ` LXII. COMPOSITA. . 489 
The genus comprises but few az natives of the Antarctic regions and New Zea- 
hand ; the single — hy quern being the same as one of the New Zealand ones. It is 
closely allied to iniit. species of Aster, differing chiefly in the anthers not 
obtuse eg the "Sg Ce Ce it is chiefly distinguished by its habit iid longer style- 
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tufted stock, forming often large silvery-white patches. Radical leaves linear 
or rarely linear-lanceolate, with a broad sheathing base, softly mucron kgs or 
obtuse, the margins SE varying in length "from ‘barely 2 in me 
specimens to 8 or 10 in. in others, densely white tomentose e the 
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aen } to 1$ in. ius Involuere broadly turbinate or hemispherical, 
woolly or at length glabrous, the inner bracts } in. long. y-florets above 
30, pink or white; “disk- florets about as idag as the involucre. Achenes 
fully 3 lines long, more or less silky- pubescent. Pappus-bristles very un- 
equal, the shortest half as long as the longest.—Gaud. in Freye. Voy. 410. 
t.91; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 181; Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. 134; C. asteligfolia, 
Hook. f. Fl. Ant. i. 35 ; Aster ere F. Muell. Fragm. v. 84. 
Bogs of the Blue Mou ains, A. Cunningham and others 
Wi x ustralian Alps, at an Geet of 4000 to 5000 ft., and summit of Mount 
"s Ne I Grampians, F. Mu rete 
Derwent river, wn; Viez in hn on the summits of the moun- 
Tee ki an leat of “3000 to di tt. J. D. H 
The spe s also in New Zealan 
Var, atta, F. Muelle a $i in. to 1 ft. long, $ to 14 in. wide, narrowed below 
the middle, th argins not WS —High Alpine pum on the M‘Alister river, Hai- 
dinger Range a Mount ue er, F. Mueller. s specimen from Mount Barkly appears to 
Connect this with the common narrow-leaved for 
Var. ? sarifraga. Very ent? in all its parts. Stock ae — j and — to 
+, covered with the remains of old leaves. ar dense tuft, narrow-linear, 
thd ma under 1 in. lon weng, näi soa Flower- vii ia, Fecit, 
d aehenes much smaller than in the com C. nifl. — able Mountain, Derwen 
Ter, R. Brown ; summit of Mount Lipsy toe Ol dfield 
13. VITTADINIA, A. Rich. 
(Microgyne, Less. ; Eurybiopsis, DC.) 
voluere hemispherical or campanulate, the bracts imbrieate im several 
ows, With dry or scarious margins, without herbaceous tips, in the Australian 
of ^ narrow and mostly acute. Receptacle pitted, without scales. Florets 
: iie o female numerous and erowded, so as to form more t than one row, 
ate and rbd in the — species. Disk-florets numerous, but 
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ength woody at the base, or in species not Australian shrubs. Leaves 
