634 | LXII. COMPOSITAE. [ Helichrysum. 
Tasmania, Oldfield ; Port Arthur, Burnett. 
l. Herb. A tall shrub, with numerous 
Hi. pholidotum, F. Mu 
Zär virgate branchlets, "almost rara of wool. Leaves small, scale-like, 
erect and ER sely appressed, lanceolate, about 1 line long, thick, concave 
above, convex underneath, without recurved margins. Flowe r- eads small 
and numerous, in a dense terminal corymb. Involucral bracts mostly with 
white concave erect appendages.— Ozothamanus pholidotus or Cassinia pholi- 
dota, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 131. 
Victoria. Desert around Lake Hindmarsh, Da/lachy, L. Morton. The specimens 
are in young bud only, aud the number and structure of the florets diat be very accurately 
ascertained, but I see no trace of receptacle-scales between the 
GR. lycopodioides, Benth. A small glabrous shrub, with erect 
ages ae arising fis ander the old Miss of flower-hea: ads! Leaves 
concave ‘bat not eatur Sch Florets above 20, a few of the outer ones 
female. Achenes papillose. Pappus-bristles barbellate and thickened towards 
the end. — Ozothamnus EU NN, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 119; 
and Fl. Tasm. i. 201. t. 57. 
Tasmania. Sugar-loaf, Backhouse, Apsley river, Burnett, both near Great Swanport. 
H. selaginoides, F. Muell. Herb. A glabrous, much- branched, 
spreading herb or undershrub, about 1 ft. high. Leaves small, spreading dei 
almost recurved, Serient t at the base, obtuse, mostly about 1 line long, 
innea, Xxv. 510; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 201. t 
mania. Table Mountain, west of Oatland, at an elevation of 3000 ft., C. Stuart, 
Deg Oldfield. 
76. WAITZIA, Wendl. 
(Viraya, Gaudich.; Morna, Lindl. ; Pterochzete, Steetz-) 
Involucre broadly turbinate-campanulate, te, hemispherical or alm poe 
the bracts imbricate in many rows, all coloured and petal-like, the inner p 
on narrow claws, spreading or im , but rarely and only sho rhode 
tubular, 5-toothe Anthers with very fine tails. Style-branches 
rete, truncate or with very short cones, almost ca apitate. Achenes $0: 
compressed, glabrous or papillose, terminating in a slender beak 
short). Pappus of capillary bristles usually cohering at the base 
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