490 LXII. COMPOSITA, [Vittadinia. 
alternate. Flower-heads terminal, solitary or forming loose leafy corymbs. 
Ray-florets white or blue. Disk-florets yellow. 
The gone extends to New Zealand and extratropical S. America, and ina a Geer modi- 
fied form) to the Sandwich Ilan Of the 4 Australian een one is pes Zea- 
land, and = closely allied to the S. American one; the others are endemic. gen 
the group is nearly allied to Sot Aster, and especially to ir rigeron, but, as y by 
ra y roc. Amer. Acad. v. 116), it cannot well be united with either. From Eurybia 
itd iffers in the more numerous ray-florets and the more flattened achenes, Trom Erigeron in 
ha abit, eid i from both in the subulate tips to the styles 
Section I. Vittadinia vera.—Achenes with 2 or more ribs on each face. 
Involuere imbricate in several rows. Achenes — than the in- j 
volucre, with 2 I" ies wg on each face. Pappus not so long. . 1. V. drachycomoides. 
Ween of 2or3 Achenes nearly as long as "e involucre, 3 
any-ribbed or finely striate. Pappus as long agai . . + 9. V. australis. 
Section IT. Eurybiopsis. Achenes very flat, the margins slightly thickened, without 
prominent ribs on the faces. 
Scabrous-pubescent or hirsute, se NE or cuneate. D 
florets scarcely erc, the 8. V. scabra. 
Glabrous or scabrous-pubescent. ym s linear o or Z- lower ones y 
linear- pia, ar fonii longer disi the p 04. V. macrorrhiza. 
Section I. VITTADINIA VERA, 4. Gray.—Achenes with 2 or more ribs 
on each face, 
. V. brachycomoides, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 86, as an Aster. De? 
Se a thick woody stock, erect or decumbent, not much branched, 4 to ly 
ft. long, „with more or less o E loose white ru gees: tomentum. 
land. SH Bay, Banks and Solander ; Keppel Bay, R. Brown, i 
fu Tsland, M*'Gillivray ; Rockha ampton, Dadlachy. 
Var. (?) datifolia. Mei broader, oblong, entire or too thed. Inv ig ias 
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mens nearly glabr i Yo za M auia 
Rockingham geg cp dine ets a caer any Tand, C ne also Purdie’ s River in 
the interior of N. Australia, M ‘Douall Stuart s y reirei — Posdbly a distinct species. 
2. V. australis, 4. DC. Prod. v. 980. Heuertz = 
erect and apparently CH y ge the frs t year?) or with dM 
ascending stems from a woody base, rarely above 1 ft. high, 
tomentose, ere soft Ke, Sec) or woolly hairs, or scabrous-hispi 
rigid hairs arising from rele. Leaves in the typical form 
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or spathulate to eeng entire or coarsely 3-toothed or lobed, narrow 
