Helipterum.] LXI. COMPOSITE. 641 
3. H. anthemoides, DC. Prod. vi. 216. Rootstock perennial, with 
numerous erect simple rather slender stems, rarely much above 1 ft. high and 
often short, glabrous. Leaves linear, often rather crowded, mostly 4 in. long, 
y linear-lanceolate and longer, glabrous and smooth or more frequently 
marked with impressed dots: "Flower-heads solitary. Involucre hemisphe- 
rical, spreading to about to 1 in. diameter, including the ray, the outer 
white. Receptacle flat. Florets all Kee Achenes densely silky- 
hairy. Pappus-bristles 15 to 20, equally plumose.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 
215. t. 61; Helichrysum anthemoides, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. iii. 484; Heli- 
plerum punctatum, DC. Prod. vi. 216. 
ponenstand, Bowman ; near o Faraday, Mitchell; head of the Gwydir, Leich- 
qm ales. Port Jackson to the Blue ët ee? R. Brown, Zeen? n. 944, and 
E P4 England, C. Stuart; Richmond river, Fawcett; Macquarrie river, Fraser, A. 
Yictoria. Port GN Gunn; Grampians, Wilhelmi; Wimmera, Dallac. 
Tasmania. Derwent rive er, D Brown ; Formosa, Wester Mountains, e EH 
ete., uis and others. 
s. Australia. Near Adelaide, Whittaker ; Mount Remarkable, F. Mueller. 
SC: H. p olygalifolium, ‘DO. Prod. vi. 216. A gels annual branch- 
at or e ear the base, pen, or erect, $ to 1 ft. high. Low ene 
. 9nes with a broad slightly woolly ae Sai aud spreading petal-like lamina, 
Ten K in. long, of a a pale or bright yello ceptacle flat. Florets all 
Sevag Molle’s oig Lear river, and Peel’s Range, Fraser, A. Cunning: 
= Darling and Lachlan rivers, Victorian and other Expeditions. 
8. A tralia. Mafia Hie; F Mas ell er; Venus and Streaky bays, Warburton. 
| Shall tuft. A few inner achenes abortive, "M a reduced pappus.—.4crocüi- 
: nium rubellum, A. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. i : 
, Drummond, n. 947, Roe. I have 2 sueceeded i in ene any tails to 
- Australia 
De anthers in this species, but may have overlooked them if exceedin 
cephalum, Z An annual with numerous mostly 
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: oa Se of h v } ft., glabrous or nearly so. Leaves Sa or slightly: 
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