514 LXII. COMPOSIT#:. [ Brachyeome. 
head not large. Involucral bracts obtuse and rather broadly scarious. Achenes 
compressed, ‘but with obtuse edges, not at all winged. Pappus very small.— 
Senecio scapiger, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. iii. 559; Brachystephium Eiescg 
DC. Prod. vi. 304. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson or Blue Mountains, Seier, n 
Victoria. Grassy valleys, Buffalo Range, Delatite river, Lee Mountains, F. 
Mueller. 
11. B. Muelleri, Sond. in Linnea, xxv. 415. Glabrous, tufted at the 
base, and probably perennial. Stems decumbent, sen and single headed 
or slightly branched, not exceeding 6 in. in our specimens. Leaves in the 
lower part narrow, 1 to 2 in. long, deeply alge on with da gett 
nate, entire or toothed lobes. Flower-heads not small. Involueral bracts 
oblong, acuminate. Achenes rather narrow, dag young, but apparently with 
thick obtuse margins and narrow sides, as in B. par rie but quite gla- 
brous. Pappus minute or none 
ustralia. Near Gawler Town, F. Mueller. 
B. parvula, Hook. f. Fl. Tazm.i.185. ` A small glabrous para 
with a densely tufted stock and diffuse wee branched stems, rarely at- 
taining 6 in. Leaves linear or linear-cuneate, obtuse, rather thick, the radical 
and lower ones oe d, - or 3-toothed at the end, but often all entire. 
Flower-heads rather small. Involucral bracts obi. cuneate. Achenes flat, 
broad, with thiekened a margins, not winge minute or none. 
Victoria. Sandy banks of the Yarra, F. Mueller, Wat Adamson. 
Tasmania. Flinders’ Island, Milligan. 
This species resembles B. pusilla in aspect, but besides t 
Sg — appear to be the same in the ray as in the disk, an 
he evident] rennial duration, 
lik, d all broader than in B: 
. graminea, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 49. Slender and usually gla- 
brous; stork perennial, creeping or sometimes tufted. Stems occasionally 
ort and numerous, more frequently elongated, decumbent or erect, lealy a 
the base als or above the middle. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, mostly 
very thick obtuse kee margins, the somewhat concave si ` Bellis 
late, and the whole achene sometimes glandular. Pappu 
gramine, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 54. t. 2 ; Papurint. yrenine, Gel 
v. 307; Hook. f. FI. asm. i. 166. 
Vic Wet place d : Wi Hall’s Creek, saline river, 
Mountains, S — ie E F. Mue D. Hooker. 
Tas Port Dalrymple, R. set i marshy places, not uncomm on, J. hers. 
S. Ai svelte, Fro rom ae Murray to St. "Vincent’s Gulf, F. Mueller a ot 
14. B. angustifolia, 4. Cunn. in DC. Prod. v. 306. A pere nial with a 
creeping rhizome and ascending or erect stems, ES, mes short, See ` 
to 10 in. long, leafy at the hase, more or less glandular-pubescent es ue 
under the flower-head. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, So wi pro 
rowed into a petiole, 14 to above 3 in. long, rather firm, and the mi 
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