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and leafy near the base. Lower leaves petiolate, oblong or lanceolate, upper 
ones small and linear. Flower-heads solitary on long almost leafless pe- 
duncles. Involucre hemispherical, 4 to 6 lines diameter, the outer oraets 
broad, short and scarious, the inner with broad rigid claws and small scarious 
scarcely spreading laminz. Receptacle slightly convex, prominently honey- 
com Florets all hermaphrodite, the central ones sterile. Achenes 
densely silky-villous. Pappus of about 20 rigid equally plumose bristles.— 
. discoideum, A. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 231; H. anactinum, F. 
Muell. Fragm. iii. 137. 
p "vage Drummond, n. 96, 4th Coll. n. 214, 5th Coll. n. 374; Champion Bay, 
eld. 
d habit recalls sometimes that of Podolepis Lessoni, but it is at once known by the 
short florets, the villous achenes, and plumose pappus. 
Var. majus. Stems 1 to 14 ft. high. Lower leaves 2 to 3 in. long. Flower-heads 
nearly 1 in. diameter*—Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 152. 
one. Achenes gl 
Mather shortly plumose.— Helichrysum stipitatum, F. Muell. 
Finke river, M*Douall Stuarts Expedition. The species is evidently 
S. Australia, i 
` allied to D. incanum, but known at once by the subulate outer involucral bracts. 
pink or brown or passing into a pale or bright yellow. Receptacle flat. 
à : . f. Fl. Tasm. i. 
3; eu in i t. Mag. t. 2881; Helichrysum molle, 
P Llichrysum incanum, Hook. Bot. Mag N. S. Wales, 359 : 
, DO. Le: Waitzia 
hyrhyncha, F. Muell. in Linnzea, xxv. 407, and Helipter wm brachyr Kyn- 
į ‘lum, Sond. in Liunæa, xxv. 517 (with yellow involucres). 
. Queensland, Mitchell. ; AUN , 
: re Wales. Port Jackson, F. Mueller; Blue Mountains, 4. —À Ma runt 
