532 LXII. COMPOSITE. [ Plerigeron. 
2. P. liatroides, Benth. Erect, rigid and er ied tigi hirsute 
or at length nearly glabrous, attaining sometimes 1} ring 
when a few in. high. Lower leaves obovate, eic into a rather long 
petiole, the upper ones obloug-cuneate or linear, obtuse, sinuate-toothed or 
nearly entire, not decurrent. °F lower-heads large, not numerous, in a terminal 
corymb. Involucre mein, nearly 1 in. diameter, the bracts broadly 
ee acute or acuminate, the inner ones 7 to 8 lines long and coloured 
at t ex. Ray-florets ligulate, exceeding the involucre, the ligula fully > 
line E and 2 lines long, usually 3-lobed. Style of the sc? florets paite 
Achenes silky-villous. Pappus-bristles not numerous, almost plumose.— 
Pluchea ligulata, F. Muell. Rep. Babb. Exped. 12 ; Streptog glossa Seet, 
F. Muell. in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. vii. 491, partly ; Erigeron liatroides, 
Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1851, i. 172. 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 100 and 222; Irvine river, O/dfield 
Var. humilis. Smaller aud more hirsute, the stems in our specimens Saber from the 
base, not above 6 in. high, eg Zen with a single flower-hea 
or S. Australia e interior, Lake "Gregory, G. Hawker ; Strangways river, 
Ar Douall Stuarts Erpeditio l 
odorus, Benih. R perennial and in the normal form 
erect, CC more or = hirsute, with virgate reg under 1 ft. high. 
obtuse, irregularly toothed, above 1 in. long, the upper ones smaller and 
linear. Flower-heads mostly terminating very short branches, sessile within 
2 or 3 floral leaves. Involuere narrow-ovoid, the bracts imbricate and rigid, 
the outer ones short, acute or almost obtuse, the inner ones 4 lines long and 
with 2 or E rarel r 5 narrow | bes, more or Tess distinctly arranged in ` 
2 lips. Style of d disk. florets 2- lobed, the branches slightly flatte tened and 
obtuse. Achenes s silky-villous. Pappus- bristles — almost plumose. 
— Pluchea odora, F. Muell. Rep. Babb. Exped 
N. Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller. d 
ajor. M DAN larger -— more numerous florets, Both the florets » 
pappus Ge to be rather those of P. odorus than of P. adscendens. xp bap 
however very aonr Zorn river, r4 Muelle p; Suttor river, Bowm 
halus, Benth. Glandular-pubescent or hirsute . Leaves 
. P. macrocep lasping, but 
e or den Pec undulate ana toothed, stem-c isi Dub 
ligulate; disk-florets very numerous. Achenes densely silky-hairy.— luc 
xped. 12. 
ous. 
macroce, SC F. cs Rep. Babb. Ex "m 
tralia. of ; the interior, lat. id 
M eier: eere ie Carpentaria, F. Mueller; in the in 
5. P. microglossus, Benth. Glabrous or äer GE 
cent, the m rigid, erect, nearly simple or m mbose i 
Dm of our specimens above 8 in 
long to EE entire or denticulate, de 1 inch long, 
