620 LXII. COMPOSIT®. [ Helichrysum. 
with revolute margins, 1 to 2 in. long, glabrous above when full grown, 
cottony-white underneath. Scapes or flowering stems under 6 in. high, simple 
and single-headed with 1 or 2 narrow, small, distant leaves. Flower-heads 
of H. dealbatum, but rather smaller and the bracts rather more rigid, the in- 
termediate radiating ones white as in that species. Florets rather longer than 
in H. dealbatum, but much less than half the length of the involuere. Achenes 
in all the specimens seen more or less silky-hirsute. Pappus-bristles barbel- 
late toward the end, scarcely so at the base 
Tasmania. Around Macquarrie Harbour, Milligan, Gunn. 
exceedin 
base, but also scattered on the stem, the lowest petiolate and almost ovate, 
passing into oblong-spathulate, and the uppermost lanceolate, all flat, gla- 
brous or nearly so. Flower-heads large, the involucres spreading to 13 m. 
diameter, white straw-coloured or tinged with red, the bracts as well as the 
florets, achenes, and pappus those of H. bracteatum. 
Tasmania. Summits of Mount Pearse and of Mount Sorrell, Gunn, Milligan ; Mount 
Lapeyrouse, C. Stuart.—Notwithstanding the habit, which is that of H. pumilum, this may 
prove to be an alpine variety of H. bracteatum. 
12. H. bracteatum, Willd. ; DC. Prod. vi. 188. An erect branching 
or simple perennial, of 1 to 9 ft., often flowering the first year so as to 
also annual, glabrous scabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs, without cottony 
e : 
eli- 
Banksii, A. Cunn. in DC. Prod. vi. 
Bot. 
narrow leaves); H. acuminatum, DC. Prod. vi. 188 (with less obtuse involi 
ied H: Jt. macrocephalum, A. Cunn. in DC. 1. c. (with large flower 
eads). 
N. Australia. Port Essin ton, 4 p 
gton, Armstrong. 
Queensland. Abundant along the whole coast, Banks and Solander, R. Brown, SS 
many others. : 45, and 
: 9. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mouutains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 4 e and 
others ; lagoons of the interior, 4. Cunningham ; New England, C. Stuart ; Clarence 27 
Hastings rivers, Beck/er. 
