D 
516 ixit. COMPOSIT®. [ Brachycome. 
Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown ; Keppel Bay, Thozet. 
N.S. Wales. Darling river, Dallach 
misaa Victoria ranges and Mount "Sturgeon, F. Mueller ; sandy heaths, Glenelg 
river, Robertson 
S. Au stralia. Lofty Ranges, Cudnaka, Crystal Brook, F. Mueller. 
Section III. BRACHYCOME.— Achenes flat, the margins acute or winged, 
or ina av species obtuse. Pappus conspicuous. 
19. B. exilis, Sond. in Linnea, xxv. 473. A slender annual, with erect 
or Weg branched stems, usually only 2 or 3 in. high without the 
s, glabrous in the original form pul pes pinnatifid, with few 
dut. E acute lobes. Peduncles slender, erect, 2 to 4 in. long. Flower- 
ll. Involucral bracts few, oblong, scarious. Nen pn with 
thickened margins, not winged. Pappus at first conspicuous, but w n the 
achene is ripe not longer than its breadth, and sometimes much ur 
B. e T Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 43, and in Hook. Kew 
Journ. viii. 
N. Wales. In the interior, C. Moore ; basin river, demi Expedition. 
Victoria. e river, Darelin Creek, Esau river, etc. er. 
CH onde Lofty an and Barossa me Port pef F. "Mueller. 
Var. (?) scabrida, Sonder. Lar, ranched, with broader leaves and SES 
flower-heads.— Murray river ‘and geen, in Kier? cases old and imperfect specime 
20. B. ptychocarpa, F. Muell. in, Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. ee? in 
Het Kew Journ. vii. 148. A -— glabrous a annual, very much like - 
S "eg e Mee. few and unsatisfactory.—Steiroglossa li 
r 
N. 5. Ge Lachlan river, A. — Ü 
tte, Buffalo range, F. Mueller ' 
debilis, Sond. in Linnea, xxv. 477. A small annual, more ^ i 
less We exactly like the scabrous form of B. exilis, except that the invo- 
lucral bracts are rather narrower, and the achenes are bo rdered by a eg 
broad wing. Pappus rather long for the genus. 
Victoria. Glenelg river, F. Mueller 
SE Australia. Kensington, St. Vincent's Gulf, Port Lincoln, F. Mu eeh ibly 
a jome very young specimens from the Darling river, Victorian Expedition, may pos 
ong to this species. 
22. B. decipiens, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. yi d, eer 
Tasm. i. 184. £. 48. An almost stemless SECH usually g glabrous, with 
precisely the aspect but not the involucre of t uropean Daisy ( 
rennis). Stock short and tufted. Leaves radical (oov E broad 
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