512 LXII. COMPOSITE, [ Brachycome. 
9. B. radicans, Siect: in Pl. Preiss. i. 429. A glabrous slender er 
ennial, with a tufted stock, emitting slender creeping rhizomes, Le 
radical, narrow-linear, entire or with a very few linear lobes, rarely Ber 
in. and often 3 or 4 in. long. Nas oe fimile slender, from 3 or 4 in. to 
thick bise crenate margin. Pappus of very short stellately spreading 
bristles.— Hoo asm. i. n 
Victoria. Wet g grassy places 
"Tasmania. Marshy ome leout. se Ca river, etc., Gunn. 
4. B. goniocarpa, Sond. and F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 474. Sie 
diffuse, much-branched annual, os exceeding 3 in., glabrous or sprin 1 
with septate hairs. Leaves linea or linear-cuneate, the lower ones a y 
pinnatifid, the upper ones de lobed or toothed at the end or pe e 
Flower-heads not 3 lines diameter; very convex after flowering. Involucra 
braets obovate, concave. Ray-florets few and very small; disk-florets ber, 
numerous, the corolla minute. Achenes thick, Keier -cuneate, yer 2E 
angular, with obtuse rugose angles; the outer achenes incurved at Lë 
Pappus of the outer florets ws “oblique, that " the disk stellately spre 
porri Phi rin Dallachy. 
S. Aus Murray nc Burra-Burra mines, F. Mueller. 
y tese Drummond, 5th Coll. a 391. 
5. B. pachyptera, Turcz. in. Bull. Mosc. 1851, i. 175. A a 
parently stemless, but densely tufted annual. Leaves radical, linear, 3 Pe 
or shortly pinnate above the middle, with linear segments. Sca p^ wn 
2 to 4 in. high. Involucres 3 to 4 lines diameter, the bracts very 0 T 
broadly scarious. Receptacle small. Achenes numerous, slightly tag cic tn 
with thick almost corky edges, bordered by a longitudinal line o long eri 
hairs, and with a narrow acutely prominent glabrous ridge on eac 
Pappus of Mort scaly bristles, e 
N.S. Wales. Molle's Plains, Fraser ; Darling river, Victorian Expedition ; 
we Dettachy 
tralia. Murray river, F. Mue 
wi Ans ia. Between Swan River pe King George's Sound, Drumm 
n. 
Murray 
ond, 4th Coll. 
hen 
SECTION II. PAQUERINA.—Achenes often compressed, eped i as 
young, but with thickened SECH never winged, and sometimes 
b * appus minute or non 
ye o» olia, Benth. in Huey Enum. 59. An erect, Pii 
To Ma branched ST about 1 ft. hig gh. Leaves pinnatey 6 
PE 
- 
Ip 
Ray-florets blue or rarely white, rather large. 
more or less angular or furrowed, sometimes slightly flattened, 
of the ray usually much em thicker, sometimes almost Ar k 6; Steetz 
very minute or none.— Bot. Reg. 9; Dot. Mag oto Steetz) ; 
in Pl. Preiss. i. 425 ; B, capillacea, Walp. Ge, ii. 584 ern 
Steiroglossa chamemillifolia, DC. Prod. v 
