624 LXII. COMPOSITS. [ Helichrysum. 
the involucral bracts very woolly and their laminze smaller and revolute, the 
Ze intermediate moe See h exceeding the Mee are yet much shorter 
n their claws. Florets and pappus of H. collinu 
cé eensland. Cape Grafton, Banks and Solander ; ro des shores of Cleveland Bay, 
A. Sr Genk zeg Goold islands, M‘Gillivray ; ‘Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
. H. podolepideum, F. Muell. Rep. Babb. Exped. 13. An under- 
Me or perhaps a low shrub, densely clothed with a cottony wool. Leaves 
petiolate, obovate or oblong, 1 to 2 in. long, soft and E: Flower-heads 
nearly 4 in. diameter, the bracts numerous, appressed, narrow, with narrow, 
florets, of a pale straw-colour or dirty white. Florets exceedingly numerous, 
all (or nearly all?) hermaphro e Achenes glabrous, Pappus-bristles not 
very numerous, shortly barbellat 
Sl ag S. Wales. Mount aie Victorian Expedition ; near the Barrier Range, 
anto 
S. Australia. To the N.W. of Lake Torrens, Herd. F. Mue 
a _ This species, as well in habit as in characters, connects the diis Oxylepis with 
Iziolena tomentosa 
Section IV. ee ae —He pe with corymbose flower-heads. 
agit ovoid- turbinate or almost globose, the bracts coloured, in many 
iating. Female florets in 1 or 2 rows, but not so numerous as the herma- 
rech ones. Achenes glabrous or papillose. ebe few, simple 
e base, plumose at the end. 
. H. apiculatum, DC. Prod. vi. 195. A perennial or per rhaps 
nu usually brauching and hard at the base, with several erect stems, AC 
1 to 2 ft. , clothed ^ with a soft silvery tomentum, which rarely disappears 
Doch the older leaves. Radical and vts leaves oblong-cuneate and petio- 
ones l to 2 in. long. Flower-heads in more or less dense terminal corymbs. 
Involueres in the original form broadly turbinate or nearly globose, about , 
in. diameter, of a bright golden colour, but sometimes much smaller, à? 
rows, female, slender, e. a reduced or abortive pappus, those of the disk 
0 fine 
very numerous, Achenes “pla brous. Pappus of the me of 4 Re L 
p. in Linnea, xiv. 503; C. apiculatum, Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 475; Lt 
vitellinum, Sond. and Muell. in Linnza, xxv. 514 (the root apparently ps 
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