Leptorhynchus. | LXII. COMPOSIT E. 611 
erte the uppermost ou he pe hinelas fist. passing ines 
scarious scales. Flower-heads campanulate or almost globular, about 4 in 
diameter, the bracts scarious E not transparent, loosely imbricate, oblong 
5? 
obtuse, shortly ciliate, the innermost row rigid, with a very small lamina. 
lorets longer than the am all hermaphrodite. Achenes contracted 
into a rather long beak. Pappus of 12 or more capillary bristles barbellate 
m the base. 
N.S. Wales. — de river, lae ee 
E Victoria. Avoca and vers, F. Mue Wi immera, Dallachy. 
S. Australia. Dry hills, ‘Salt ps Behr ; EE town, F. Mueller. 
. 8 L. linearis, Less Sy». Comp. 273. Rhizome slender and creeping, 
emitting tufts of erect or ascending stems, simple or sparingly branched, often 
lft. high, thinly cottony or glabrou s. Leaves inear, the radical ones broad 
and ] to 2 in. long, the upper ones ; gra adually narrower, smaller, and more 
| distant, usually glabrous on both sides. Flower-heads few or solitary. In- 
: voluere broadiy hemispherical, 3 to 3 in. diameter, the bracts oblong-ovate 
or almost, orbicular, not ciliate, wid broadly ovate thinly scarious laminze 
boser than in n any other species. Florets (as far as | have seen) all herma- 
 Dhrodite, longer than the involucre. Achenes contracted into a short but 
distinct beak. Pappus of numerous fine bristles shortly barbellate—DC. 
Prod. vi. 160. 
Wales. Moist penra between Sydney and Paramatta, R. B 
Open woods néi andy hills, Latrobe and Snowy rivers, e à heathy ridges 
uelle. 
erwent river, "R: Brown. 
74.. SCHGENIA, Cass. 
Thvolucre geng or campanulate, the outer bracts adpressed, scarious, 
inbricate, the inner row with petal-like spreading lamine. eceptacle 
Without Ga Florets all tubular, 5-toothed, those of the circumference 
, leraphrodite, fertile. Anthers with fine tails. Style-branches terminat- 
mg in a short cone.  Disk-florets sterile, with an undivided style chenes 
> the circumference very flat, not beaked, those of the disk abortive Pap- 
of numerous babel bristles. reet Leaves alternate or the lower 
GER Ee, e ntire. Flower-heads in a loose corym 
Ze € genus is EC to a single species endemic in Australia. Tt differs from the section 
encella of Helic chrysum, chiefly i iu the flat achenes of th ference, 
| k assiniana, Sleelz in Pl. Preiss. i. 481. An erect corymbosely- 
S eda annual ja 1 to 2 ft., Sege ër? or with more or pe of 
er bracts white or pink, oblong, 4 to 6 lines long. Perfect achenes in a 
ttle ron at the circumference, flat, with the edges ciliate with ipn hairs. 
‘rile florets numerous.— Helichrusum Cassinianum, Gaud. in Fr riye. e Bot. 
