Helichrysum.] LXII. COMPOSITAE. 619 
allied, but the loose branching AA and small flower-heads appear to be constant, as far as 
shown by our numerous specim 
8. H. obtusi tte E Muell. and Sond. in Linnea, xxv. 513. Erect 
and branching with a hard often woody base, but per erhaps flowering some- 
times the first year so as to appear annual, very variable in stature, pope 
1 ft. high in the original form, silvery-white with a close cottony wool or a 
length nearly g glabrous. Lenves linear, obtuse, with revolute margins, some- 
imes narrow and above 4 in. long, sometimes very small. Flower-heads 
solitary, Saga ees the branches. nvoluere hemispherical, spreading from 
have a short claw tare white narrow liina a, ¢ to 3 in. n rarely ener 
with pink. Florets very numerous, much less than half as long as the in 
luere, a few of the outer ones female with a reduced or no pappus, the Kies 
hermaphrodit e. Achenes glabrous or papillose. Pappus-bristles 15 to 20, 
simple at the base, mie d barbellate towards the end.—Helipterum niveum, 
Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 475. 
ales. woran Bay, F. Muel 
Vict oria, 2 8 agences 7 Mater Glenelg river, F. Mueller, Robertson ; 
E Se ; Wim 
S. ia. ee “Ba ZC Adelaide, Whittaker 
d 
- Austr pes King George's Sound pe adjoining ‘districts, Bar er, Drummond, n. 
84, Preiss, n.11, and others (the leaves usually, but not always, narrower uisi in the Eastern 
pecim ens). 
Var tephrodes. -— 6 in. high and —€— S — - — sometimes 
ending in a short s Leaves few spied mall. r-heads —Ozothamnus te- 
Phrodes, Turez. in p Mose. 1851, ii. 79. e We rr om ; Encounter Bay 
mittas er; Kangaroo Island, "Fes idi Phillips river, Maxwell ; Ze Drummond, Sih 
n n. 
Var. squamiger. Like the preceding variety, but — being and the leaves all re- 
duced to minute linear scales.—Near Oldfield river, Maze 
batum, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 45. t. 190. Stems froma 
perennial tufted or shortly creeping and bog wt base, asc scending or erect, 
simple and single-headed, rarely attaining 1 ft., white with a close cottony 
Wool. Leaves radical o r at the base of the stem ms, oblong-lanceolate or slightly 
spathulate, acute or obtuse, rarely Selfie 1 in., usually flat and glabrous 
above, cottony-white underneath, the upper ones few, small and narrow. In- 
glabrous o i : us-bristles barbellate towards the end, scarcely 
— atthe FeO. es 189; Hook. f. FleTasm. i. 213 ; Gnaphalium 
. "iteum, Poir, Dict. Suppl. ii. 808. 
a ia. Derwent river and Port CES R. Brown ; in various parts of the 
tolony, generally in a poor wet soil, J. D. Hook: 
10. H. pumilum, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 213. f. 60. A small perennial, 
With a tufted stock. Gem chiefly fadle linear or linear-cuneate, obtuse 
