Brachycome.) LXIT. COMPOSITA. 511 
Achene-wings entire or slightly toothed . . 35. B. glandulosa. 
Glabrous, 3 to 2 in. high. In rni bracts jg Pres wings 
Gees toothed . 96. B. collina. 
a, Gaud. in PS s Bot. 408, d Lade) described for identification, 
Wretitred ns DC. with doubt to Vittadinia. 
Section I. BRACHYSTEPHIUM.—Achenes often EC especially 
when young, but with thickened margins, never winged, an metimes at 
length as thick as broad. Pappus Sonsprtons stellately E Invo 
lueral bracts enr iind scariot 
This section diffe Paquerin dë n the pappus; the achenes are also mor 
generally thick "zg za de, d the er ones es aes often thickened unequally.at the top, 
turning Deen the pappus becoming quite excentrical. 
sifolia, Fisch. and Mey. Ind. ii. Sem. Hort, Petrop. 31. 
A tufted Beer flowering however the first year so as to appear annual, 
glabrous or hirsute with septate hairs. Stems usually simple, 1 to 2 ft. high 
or rarely reduced to a short scape. Lower leaves often crowded, obovate spa- 
thulate or obl ong, coarsely toothed or pinnatifid, the lobes broad or narrow, 
sometimes again ‘divided, the upper leaves smaller and less divided, and the 
Upper part of the stem a long almost leafless peduncle. Flower-heads larger 
than in any other species. Involucre above } in. diameter, the scarious 
margins of the bracts broad. ay ordis white, long and numerous. Style- 
branehes with a lanceolate papillose Ajpendags, but without the longer hairs 
at the base figured by Lessing (Syn. Comp. f. 16). Achenes oblong, thick- 
ened upwards, marked with PRE a furrows, the outer ones obliquely i in- 
curved at the top, with a dense “tuft of short capillary bristles.— Hook. f. 
Tasm. i. 187; Pyrethrum diversifolinm, Grah. in Hook. Exot. Fl. iii. t. 215; 
Bot. Reg. t. 1025 ; Brachystephium leucanthemoides, Less. Syn. Comp. 389 ; 
vi. 304. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown; Clarence river, Beckler (with smooth and 
With tuberculate niinc 
ictoria. On the Yarra, F. Mueller, Robertson ; in the Australian Alps, F. Mueller ; 
alla. am 
asmania, Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; common in grassy pastures throughout the 
tralia. Near Adelaide, Blandowski. 
Var. humilis. Very small in all Si ER but zs a en Baron a starved 
state. E humilis, DC. i. 39. an river, 
Var. maritima. SC es mostly twice  pinnatifid nee thick. em green WË of 
Bus's Sua its, R. Bro 
. B. rM carpa, Sond. and F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 476. A small 
perennial. but evidently flowering the first year so as to appear sits ot 
slightly branched, rarely much “abo ve 6 in. high. Leaves mostly oblong- 
tineate, obtuse and coarsely toothed at the end or shortly lobed above the 
_ ‘iniddle, narrowed into a rather long petiole. Flower-heads small, on slender 
S Peduncles, Involueral bracts broad, scarious at the end. Ray-florets rather 
, umerous f te, somewhat compressed, the edges ob- 
tuse, the sides eng tuberculate, pes very black. Pappus of short bristles 
stellately Sprei idin 
Ten Wile B. Da rling river, CS Expedition. 
ictoria, Murray river; F. Mue 
