NR LXII. COMPOSITAE. [ Helichrysum. 
Flower-heads — Involucral bracts without white 
ips. Florets 12 to 18 . . 49. H. scutellifolium. 
Leaves small, convex or kee du derneath, concave a abov 
ON, ere e? we? iiy spree scale-like. Flor 
head mbos . 50. H. pholidotum. 
Leaves Iech, get or spr readi ing. Flower- heads capit ate 
Involueral bracts with concave tips. Florets above 20 UR ee H. lycopodoides. 
Involucral inner bracts with spreading tips. Florets 
‘to 12 Sey ey SZ 52. H. selaginoides. 
on I. LAWRENCELLA.—Annuals. Involucre phe or cam- 
linear-scarious claws and radiating coloured laminæ. Receptacle flat or 
convex. Achenes with erect transparent obtuse hairs (or elongated pie 
the central ones sometimes abortive and glabrous. Pappus equally and 
CRM uir barbellate. Annuals. 
1. E. Lawrencella, F. Muell. Herb. An erect slender branching an- 
nual, often exceeding 1 ft., glabrous or nearly so in the typical form. Leaves 
linear, very narrow, frequently opposite. Flower-heads on long peduncles. 
Involucre hemispherical, in the ordinary form about 3 in. diameter without 
the rays, the outer bracts brown, lanceolate, appressed, "with scarious margins 
and slightly woolly, the inner with a broad linear claw, a nd oblong obtuse 
spreading petal-like laminz, 4 to 6 lines long, pink or white. Receptacle 
flat. Florets all hermaphrodite, about as long as the claws of the inner 
bracts, Achenes, at least the perfect ones, more or less hispid with trausp® 
rent hairs (or elongated papille). Pappus of numerous barbellate bristles, 
not thickened upwards.—Lawrencella Gees Lindl. Swan en Amp-: 
WV. Australia. Swan River, Drummon Coll.; Cape Riche, Salt river and 
Sg Bay, Macwell ; inis river, nem pé large ower henis IS 
r. Davenportii. Glabrous or papillose-pubescent, the lea metimes lanceolate. 
Hee iai py the asit florets sterile with elon y^ ted abortive ARUM and the pap 
bristles sie plumose.—H. Davenportii, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 32. 
s. Neales river, M*Douall Stuart. 
w. aur lia. Near Sapphire Lake, Ha — E Bowes river, Oldfield. 
I should have creme this as a distinct species, but that a SE thp very few specimens 
seen (in Herb. F. Mueller) some have precisely the foliage of Get es? ` oe ery 
hose we have of the typical form with smaller flower-heads a few oft entral fl 
t 
occasionally abortive «i elongated pidas and Oldfield's Murchison ghe geen ge 
the heads quite as large as in H. Davenportii, but all the florets per erfect. 
. H. subulifolium, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 194. An erect. glabrous 
annual, with the narrow leaves of H. Lawrencella, but, they are 8€ seldom 
opposite and the stems are simple or not much bran ched. Flower- -heads 
large, on long peduncles. Involucre yA e 2 $ to above d ie diameter 
the inner with linear claws and large oblong vege lomifim vi a wit 
golden colour. Receptacle very convex. Florets as long as the kt of 
inner bracts. ae hispid with erect transparent hai Pappus ie 
not so numerous as in H. Lawrencella, strongly barbellate, n not thie 
upwards. a 
W. Australia, Drummond. Greenough river and Champion Bay, Oldfield Ve 
particularly large flower-heads A 
