598 LXII. COMPOSITAE. e [Iviolena. 
T Wimmera, Dalla 
S. A E Avoca, Geng Murray river, F. Mueller ; in the interior, MDouall 
Stuart’ s “Eepeditio 
. I. supina, F. Muell. Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 87. A low decumbent 
or divaricately-branched perennial, glabrous or scabrous- -pubescent. Leaves 
mostly e E re Com rather thick, either all under 4 in. long or the 
larger ones 4 owed into a short petiole. Peduncles not very long, 
with a few e"? “distant leafy braets. Involncre as in Z. leptolepis, broad 
with narrow rigid ent bracts. Florets as in that species, but 
perhaps 1 or 2 of the outer ones may be more slender and female. Pappus 
of 20 to 30 very fine capillary bristles, shortly barbellate upwards. 
S. Australia. Memory Cove, R. Bro ig mod: Island, F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. Kent's group, Bass's Straits, R. Brow 
narrowly linear- dierum woolly, the dag ones with small narrow scarious 
tips, not radiating. aa numerous, scarcely exceeding the involuere. 
Achenes angular, rather long, glabrous or slightly hirsute. “Papp us of 10 to 
20 capillary | bristles, barbellate from the pu. en as pigs as the corolla.— 
wien Sonderi, F. Muell. in Seem. Journ. Bot. i 
N. S. Wales. shay river, ys pes Mrs. Ford. 
à Port Lincoln ; Murray vs ert, F. Mueller ; Flinders Rangf, 
Howitt s Expedition ; Head ‘of the SCH Bight, Deliss 
5. I. viscosa, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 66. An erect, much-branched 
annual, ‘of 1 to 2 fi, with a hard stem, more or less hoary-pubesce cent with a 
= Filo 
peduncles or leafless branches. Titülüge broad! ovoid, 3 to 4 lines ope 
the bracts narrow-linear, herbaceous, glandular-pubescent, with very naro" 
scarious margins and small white spreading laminze, a few of the outer ones 
shorter, without scarious margins or tips. Florets very numerous, all a 
maphrodite. Achenes nearly terete, very shortly hirsute. Pappus s of 15 to 
or more capillary bristles, very shortly and finely barbellate.— —DO. Prod. ae 
162; Steetz in Pl. Preiss i. 458 ; Helichrysum asteroides, SE E Vs 
W. Australia. Kin s, R ; 
ham, Mig. Drummond, Sean Som, ko ueniet ape Gen we 
70. ATHRIXTA, Ker. 
(Asteridia, Lind]. ; Chrysodiscus, Steetz ; Trichostegia, Tw Turcz.) 
erous, s, very 
Taria broadly campanulate or hemispherical, the bracts numero? y 
near with subulate tips, or almost filiform. Receptac ie 
