518 LXII. COMPOSITE. [.Brachycome. 
obtuse involucral bracts, and in some specimeus the immature achenes show no pe in 
others they are certai nly w inged, aud some large — specimens of B. scapiform 
have lod broad ees bast of the £enuiscapa.— B. tenuiscapa, Hook. f. in Hook. i 
Journ. vi. 114, and in Fl. Tasm. i. 184. t. 48. diui plains, Victoria, F. Mueiler ; Arthur's 
Take eid Middlesex Séch T nix, Gunn. 
26. B. stricta, DC. Prod. v. 305. A perennial with ascending or erect 
more or less branching stems, attaining 14 ft. when full-grown, more or less 
hirsute with short septate hairs or glandular-pubescent, Pools under the 
flower-head, very rarely reduced to short simple scapes. i er leaves 
euneate-oblong, coarsely toothed or almost pinnatifid ; upper narrow 
and more entire. Flower-heads rather large, on long peduncles. NS 
bracts narrow as in B. scapiformis, but usually more scarious and er at 
the end. Achenes very flat, with a broad thin entire or Ue wing. "prod 
much smaller than in B. scapiformis.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 186; B. leucan- 
themifolia and B. oblongifolia, Benth. in Huer Enum. 60; B. glauca, Walp. 
in Linnea, xiv. 315. 
N. S. W. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountai ns, R. Brown and others, and ne 
to Bathurst, 4.Cunnin Sien Mount Mitchell, Beck/er ; Maneroo plains and Argyle co 
Lhotzky ; Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. 
ictoria. Mount Bulle Mount Timbertop, King's Parrot’s pie Delatite river, 
pene A ete., F. Mueller; shady banks, Port Phillip, H Herb. L 
ania. Po rt Dalrymple, R. Brown; abundant in rocky zitt pe m the 
da T J. D. Hooker 
rigid appressed hairs Eug oa on long peduncles In- 
volucral bracts apparently broad. es (aceording to DC.) bordered by 
a toothed wing and tuberculate on the di 
N.S. Wales. Wet places on the Lachlan river, 4. Cunningham ; N.W. interior, 
lace hl 
er, The specimens are eebe, but have a different aspect from any other Lem 
the mucronate-acute teeth of the leaves are peculiar. 
e Billardieri, Benth. A perennial, glabrous or eege with 
piers tiit Stems branched, leafy, apparently decumbe Leaves 
cuneate-oblong, pinnatifid with short mucronate-acute lobes. pube em 
n. long, the flower-heads not large. Involucral bracts oblong. ET 
eg flat, oblong, those of the ray apparently with thickened obtuse marg! Se 
those of the disk with the margins more acute and ed ciliate or denticu- 
late, but not seen perfect. Pappus minute or alniost no 
; We Austr s il bill. Pl. Nov. Holl 
5. t. 206, from Van Leeuwin's Land, a appears from the figure and description to agree 
d better Med = species than with B. stricta, to which itis is eo piel reierr 
specim ry good, and there may still bé some doubt about the species. 
or less clothed, 
ly when young, with a white wool, probably always perennial, but 
29. B. fnac Less. Syn..Comp. 112. Glabrous or more 
especial 
often flowering the first year so as to appear annual; stems erec 
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