lagenophora.] LXII. COMPOSITE. 507 
Seapes thickened, sh orter or rarely longer than the leaves. geg 
minute, p opening out into a short concave e + $ SE 
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Img, acute or x obtuse. Ray- florets -— E exc fien te the invo- 
hem. Achenes at least as long as the involucre, “the margins usu ually glan- 
dular-pubescent, contracted at the base and abruptly contracted at the t top 
into a neck sometimes as long as the breadth of the achene, sometimes very 
short.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. E 188; Bellis stipitata, Labill. Pl. Nov . Holl. ii. 
53.1. 205 ; Lrauchenus sublyratus, Cass.; DC. Prod. v. 308 ; Brachycome pu- 
mila, Wa Ip. Rep. ii. 584, according to Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 428 ; Legeno- 
plora gracilis, Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 431. 
seed, Sib river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, Leichhardt 
S. Wales. rt Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 505, and 
others; Clarence, Nace, and Hastings river, Beck/er. 
, Vict " arshy places and common along streams in subalpine situations 
Gen Gipps j See and = nee to the Geita jish “the Yarra and Glenelg rivers, F. 
KE, be «son, aud other 
ania, Port Dalry ER, R. Brown; abundant throughout the island, J. D. 
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ustralia. Mount Gambier, Rivoli Bay, F. Mue 
ustralia. ine George’s Sound, Menzies ; i "River, Drummond, lst Coll. ; 
Ta Iso in Ceylon, Khasya, the Indian Archipelago, and S. China. There a 
ral t ioe | oneri SN varieties :—1. microcephala, glabrous or hirsute the flower- 
$ without the rays scarcely 3 lines E and the rays short, the inmou tro- 
-Peal and subtrapical for m, and, 2. normalis, Rer ze? ve flower- ci without the 
i "ys about 4 lines diameter and the rays rather longer ; this — o southern 
Mets. billardiére’s own plage rh are almost pban pues een wo. 
Of L. montana, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 113, and Fl. "Tus . i. 189, the 
Tëual specimens, with ace de narrow n arly glabrous leaves, are Frodig i in the size of 
the fower-heads, but many specimens, ite from Victoria, pass gradually into the 
Lu i . latifolia, Hook. f. in Hoo gto Journ. vi. a oe dos n i. 189. 
Een small obovate hirsute leaves, passes also gradually in 
mii n's herbarium is a remarkable variety from P ort Phillip, with ani Vo stems 
| the involucral bracts very narrow, almost setaceous. 
Huegelii, Benth. in Hueg. Ennm. 59. Very near L. Billardieri, 
ud coarser plant, hirsute or sometimes nea arly glabrous. Leaves 
o 1$ D. long, often with 
3 in. diameter without the rays, the geg MY 
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ria. Yd river, P, Mueller, Wendn vale, Robertson. 
