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Brachycome.) LXII. COMPOSITÆ. 517 
E S. Wales. Argyle county, Backhouse, M‘Arthu 
Victoria. Grassy valleys near Mount Ness Dandenong range, Plenty Creek, Upper 
KR river, F. Mueller ; Wendu valley, Rober 
asmania. rers alrymple, R. Brown ; abot i in grassy meadows throughout the 
island, J. ^ Hoo 
S. Aus bui. Nae Mount Gambier, F. Mue 
Var. pubescens. Leaves pubescent, flower-heads stall —New England, C. Stuart. 
cardiocarpa, F. Muell. Herb. A glabrous perennial with a 
tufted iu Leaves radical, linear, quite entire in all our imens, an 
often very narrow and many inches ong, but sometimes short and resembling 
those of B. sc Scapes usually erect, often above 1 ft. high, 
3 or 4 distant leaves, : rarely decumbent and leafy at the base. Flower-heads 
rather large. — Involueral bracts broadly scarious. Achenes flat, bordered by 
broad thin wings, entire, undulate, or rarely crenate or lobed as in B. margi- 
nata, the pappus as long as the breadth of the achene or rather more.—B. 
line Ee Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 185, not of DC. 
Victoria. Swamps of Gipps’ Land, F. Mueller ; Heaths, Glenelg river, Robertson ; 
Portland, Aën. 
Tasmania. Mount Wellington, Formosa, etc., generally growing in water, J. D. 
Hooker and others. 
: Aus mies Rivoli Bay, C. Mueller. 
ar. alpina. Smaller, with shorter Ze re Munyong and Cobra Mountains, 
ech at an ES of 4000 to 6000 ft., F. Mueller 
4. B. n ivalis, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soe. Vict. i. 43, and in Hook. 
Kew diri. vii. 148. A glabrous perennial, with a thick tufted or shortly- 
creeping stock. Leaves radical, pinnate, with once or even twice pinnatifid, 
or rarely entire linear segments, the whole leaf usually 3 or A in.long. Scapes 
longer than y eh E leafless. pit ect rather large. Invo- 
lueral bracts n rrow. Receptacle at length very conical. Kehenes flat, with 
abroad w wing. E conspicuous, the bristles iini united in a ring. 
Victoria. Sum e Australian Alps, Mount Buller and Cobberas mountains 
(with en are mostly gie pinnate), äere ng mountains and suns Wellington (with 
mostly twice pinnate), F. ller. 
LEN. Bes scapiformis, DC. SE . 806. A perennial with a tufted or 
slightly -creeping stock, glabrous or nearly so. Radical leaves obovate or 
oblong- -cuneate, coarsely toothed towards the end or rarely nearly entire, nar- 
owe 
her lang. Involucral Large "pde and acute. Achenes flat, the acute 
r less expanded into a wing. Pappus conspicuous, of short 
E <a dilated into isst he k. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 185. 
house ; S. Wales. Lachlan river, 4. Cunningham; Argyle County, M'Arthur, Back- 
d f ^y Gwydir, Leichhardt. 
Moun KG ist places, Aerch of the Victoria ranges, Wilhelmi; Mount Barkly, 
t Timbe F. Mueller 
intop, Meri A teak, i E. row: abundant in good soil and in marshy places 
geg “beg m J. D . Hoo. 
A rather eg in slender variety with narrow leaves, broader, more 
