Heliehrysum.| LXII. COMPOSITA. 623 
spreading to a diameter of 2 to 1 in., the outer bracts few, densely woolly with 
small laminze, the intermediate with narrow claws and white petal-like radia- 
ting laminze, the innermost small. Florets very numerous, not half so long 
as the involucre. Achenes papillose. Pappus-bristles about 12, slender, 
slightly thickened and barbellate upwards. 
Victoria. In the Grampians, W/Aelmi ; Wimmera, Dallachy ; Glenelg river, Robert- 
son, Allitt. » 
. Australia. Near Adelaide, Blandowsky ; Mount Gambier, Rivoli Bay, Encounter 
Bay, F. Muelier. 
Section III. OxvrEPIs.—Perennials or undershrubs. Tnvolucre hemi- 
spherical or broadly campanulate, bracts all with linear claws and radiating 
laminæ, narrow-acute and often revolute. Pappus-bristles simple or shortly 
barbellate, not thickened nor more barbellate upwards, 
18. H. oxylepis, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 35. A perennial, with erect or 
ascending stems of /1 to 2 ft., branching, hard and almost woody at the base, 
with a little loose wool. Leaves linear, with revolute margins, or very 
| harrow-lanceolate and flat, 13 to nearly 3 in. long, becoming nearly or quite , 
glabrous, the upper ones few and very small. Flower-heads rather large, 
lit 
y aeensiana. Bustard Bay, Banks and Solander; sandy shore, Moreton Island, P. 
ueller, 
N. S. Wales. Grose Head, R. Brown ; also Backhouse. 
This may possibly be a variety of H. collinum. 
Sang, H. collinum, DC. Prod. vi. 190. A herb or undershrub (of 1 to 
38.31. with the habit of some of the compact varieties of H. elatum, dotted 
With white cottony wool. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, mostly 1 to 2 in. long, 
ides. Flower-heads rather large, soli- 
ae ] few outer ones female. 
-Achenes glabrous. Pappus-bristles numerous, fine, minutely serrula e 
„Queensland, Bare ridges of Endeavour river, and around Port Bowen, A. Cunningham ; 
Harvey *s Bay, Sandy Cape, R. Brown (with smaller flower-heads). 
N.S. Wales. New Englend, C. Stuart ; Bent's Basin, Woolls. 
i ith 
vi. 190. Apparently an undershrub, wit! 
In iN E ot H. collinum, of which it 
peduncles are usually 6 to 9 
the appressed claws of 
L3. H. rupicola, 
De habit, foliage, and nearly all the characters 
My be a variety ; but the ‘almost leafless woolly 
E long, the flower-heads rather smaller and flatter, 
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