Vittadinia.] LXII. COMPOSITE. 491 
into a petiole, under 3 in. long when broad, sometimes above 1 in. when 
row. Flower-heads solitary, terminal. Involucre of 2 or 3 rows of narrow 
bracts 3 to 4 lines long, or the outer row shorter. ay-florets narrow, about 
as long as the pappus or rather’ longer, but usually eie i so as to appear 
much shorter; disk-florets slender, much longer than the involucre. Achenes 
narrow nearly as long as the involucre, Wës at the base, more or less 
pubescent, striate with 6 to 8 fine ribs on face. Pappus longer pa 
the achene, of copious rather unequal br og? bristles, a few o uter nes 
much shorter.— Aster Behrii, Schlecht. Linnea, xxi. 446 ; F. Muell. Sage 
Y. 87; Vittadinia triloba, V. cuneata, and probably ale V. dentata, DC. 
-V. 281; Eurybiopsis ot and E d racilis, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. 
Journ, vi. 110; Æ. Hookeri, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 453; Vittadinia 
scabra and V. cantata, Hook. 1 f. Fl. Tasm. i. 181. 182 ; V. triloba, V. cuneata, 
and 7. scabra, A. Gr ray in Proc. Amer. Acad. v. 118; Diplopappus austral- 
asicus, Cre Bull. Mose. 1881, i. 171 
land. Bustard Bay an ren of Inlets, Banks and Solander; Keppel Bay, 
3 Port Curtis, M "lier he; — in these specimens not so prominently e 
but i different from those of F. 
t" Por & di ackso e tanter s River, R. Brown ; Clarence river, Beckler 
lachlan river, 4. Cunningham ; A d and Marray desert, and towards the Bartlet 
Range, Victorian Eé sed Expediti 
Victoria, Com n dry mis E from Lake Gescht in vg Land, to the 
Western eg p. iba, ‘Marr ray desert, era, etc., F. M and o 
ái ée a. Derwent river, R. as wn ; in dry stony podes in r D. Hooker 
s. 
ei m From the Murray river to St. Vincent's and Spencer's gulfs, F. Mueller 
0 a 
tralia. From the S. coast to Swan River, dues n. 95, 36, 87, 386 ; 
A Gs » ». 213, 5th foe n. 373; Preiss, n. 102 and 104; Murchison river, Oldfield. 
Var, x SSES often twice 3-lobed.—Port Jackson, R. Brown ; i Be o d, 
C. Stuart ; Bent’s d Lachlan rivers, Z. Morton > Yarra 
tiver, F holy : Basin, Woo//s; Upper Bogan an 
gu. tenuissima. inear-subulate. Flower-heads small.—Port Jackson, R. Brown, 
I Burnett river, D “Ma ller (heads very young, and the identity doubtful). 
bristle pterocheta, V. Muell. Achenes with very fine scarcely conspicuous strie. Pappus: 
dion most plumose.—Castlereagh river, C. Moore ; Darling desert, Fictorian Expe- 
a megacephala, F. Muell. ae int Ray-florets longer than the pappus. 
Pencer's Gulf, F. Mueller ; Tasmania, G 
SECTION TI, Eurysiopsis, 4. Gr gg very flat, the margins 
ity hae without any ribs on the faces, or very rarely one short 
b Ki scabra, DC. Prod. e 281. A rigid herb of 1 to 2 ft. with erect 
ranches, or rarely small, somewhat woody at the base and. divaricately 
