622 LXII. COMPOSITE, [ Helichrysum. 
Queensland. On the Maranoa, Mitchell; ridges of the Suttor, F. Mueller. 
W. S. Wales. Sources of the Boyd river, Leichhardt. 
Considered by F. Mueller, and perhaps correctly so, as a variety of H. elatum. 
15. H. adenophorum, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 38. 
scabrous without cottony wool. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, with 
revolute margins, slightly dilated and stem-clasping at the base or very 
shortly decurrent. Flower-heads large, solitary at the ends of the branchlets. 
Involucre broadly hemispherical, spreading to from l to 1} in. diameter, 
closely surrounded by 2 or 3 small linear glandular-scabrous leaves, the 
bracts white or tinged with pink, thin and petal-like, the outer short sessile 
ones sometimes very pale brown, the intermediate lanceolate-oblong, on di- 
lated claws, a very few of the innermost smaller. Florets very numerous, 
‘rather less than half as long as the involucres. Achenes glabrous, Pappus- 
bristles slender, finely but very shortly barbellate, not perceptibly thickened 
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upwards in the specimens seen à; 
S. Australia. Barren elevations, Kangaroo Island, F. Mueller ; scrub near Wallan’s 
Hut, Waterhouse. 
eneral aspect and foliage it closely resembles some specimens of Waitzia nivea, 
Ing 
but is readily distinguished by the broader claws of the inner involucral bracts, and the 
achenes not beaked. 
slender, numerous, very slightly barbellate, not thickened upwards.— Hook. f. 
Fl. Tasm. i. 213, t. 
* Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown. i 
een D E the Glenelg to Wilson’s Promontory, F. Mueller and others; Wim- 
PSY Fe ind oten T R. Brown ; sand hills, North coast, and Flinders’ Island, 
S. Australia. Cove, R. Brown ; Eucounter Bay and near Adelaide, Whit- 
taker ; Streaky Bay and Spencer’s Gulf, Warburton. 
w. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, Bazter, Drummond, 
n. 346; eastward to Cape Arid, Marwell, 
17. H. Blandowskianum, Size. ; Sond. in Linnea, xxv. 512. 
Stems, from a perennial almost woody stock, erect, branched only at the 
top, 1 to 1} ft. high, covered as well as the foliage with a dense cottony 
wool. Leaves linear or lanceolate, soft and thick, I to 2 iu. long. Flower- 
heads rather large, in a terminal corymb. Involucre broadly hemispherical, 
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