604 LXII. COMPOSITAE. [ Podolepis. 
rather numerous, scabrous or minutely barbellate.—Rutidosis arachnoidea, 
Hook. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 341 ; Rutidochlamys Mitchelli, Sond. in Linnea, 
xxv. 497, 
Queensland. Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown; Upper Burdekin and Burnett rivers, 
F. Mueller; Port Curtis, M*Gillivray ; Emu Creek, Thozet ; near Mount Pluto, Mitchell. 
N.S. Wales. Liverpool Plains, C. Moore; Darling river, Neilson ; Murray river, 
F. Mueller ; also in Leichhardt’s Collection. 
: ipedata, 4. Cunn. in DC. Prod. vi. 163. Either annual or 
with a perennial stock and annual stem of 1 to 2 ft., simple or divaricately- 
branched and retaining very little cottony wool. Leaves linear or lanceolate 
or the radical ones oblong-spathulate. Flower-heads smaller than in P. acu- 
minata, pedunculate or rarely 3 or 4 together almost sessile. Involucres 
hemispherical, about 2 in. or rarely nearly 1 in. diameter, the scarious 
laminz of the bracts smaller than in all the allied species, ovate, obtuse or 
te, not rugose, those of the intermediate bracts much shorter ME 
N. Australia. Mackenzie river, F. Mueller. 
Queensland. Shoalwater Bay and Broad Sound, R. Brown ; sandy shores of Moreton 
Bay, 4. Cunningham ; Maranoa river, Mitchell. à in 
N. S. es. Hunter's River, R. Brown; near Bathurst, 4. Cunningham ; a 
Leichhardt’ s Collection. ‘vere, I, 
ictoria. Grassy valleys, Delatite, Mitta-Mitta, Macalister, Omeo, Snowy rivers, ^* 
Mueller; Maneroo, Lhotzky. 
The Northern specimens generally have an annual appearance, with smaller flower-heads, 
than the Southern ones, which have sometimes several stems from a hard stock, but Brown 
specimens quite connect the two forms. 
_P. acuminata, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 82. Stems ey 
a perennial stock erect, 1 to 2 ft. high, simple or corymbosely pon se 
glabrous or with a few scattered short hairs and sometimes a little decidu 
Pappus-bristles numerous, white, shortly barbellate, united at the gf 
DC. Prod. vi. 162; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. d 209; Scalia jaceoides, Sims, i | 
Mag. t. 956. 
Queensland. Burnet river and Peak Downs, F. Mueller ; Rockhampton, ss 
Maranoa river and Mantuan Downs, Mitchell. Hastings rive 
N. - Port Jackson, R. Brown; New England, C. Stuart; =a rign Erpe 
Beckler ; Richmond river, Fawcett ; Nangas, Backhouse; Darling river, CN 
dition. Creswick, 
Yarra river, Avoca river, Cobberas mountains, F. Mueller ; 
