654 LXII. COMPOSITAE. [ Gnaphalium. 
Queensland. EE islands, R. Brown; Keppel Bay, Thozet ; Brisbane 
river, Beaton Bay, F. M 
N. S. Wales. Port ach R. Brown, Sieber, n. 343, and others; New England, 
C. Stuart ; Clarence river, Beckler; Darling river, Victorian Expedition 
Victoria. Murray ri ver, D allachy ; ; Creswi m - > allara be GC 
gene Common in many parts of the is 
ice? Near Adelaide, Torri river, S rane 7 ` Mueller ; Kangaroo 
island, Kos 
W.A South coast to Swan River, T iiis a. 22, 5th Coll. n. 310, 
Preiss, n. 46, a sid Lee Maien river, Oldfield. 
The species is also in New Zealand, and heey over some parts of the Eastern Archi- 
pelago, and northwards to Japan, m whence we have many specimens, easily recognized 
by Thunberg’s peel pn but firs identified by Miquel. With reg te I the several 
synonyms quoted by De Ca ndolle id copied by F. Mueller, some e must r n doub btul, for 
De Candolle gives the — nial sign to his esch whilst all the erotica emer ] have 
seen show an annual root, as described by ‘Thanber, 
3. G. c Sg Labill. Pl. Nov. géi ii, 44. 4. 189. Very nearly 
allied to G. japonicum, and referred to it as a synonym by F. Mueller. It 
appears, however, to be always perennial, forming a tufted stock or emitting 
underground creeping rhizomes, the stature is usually smaller; the indumentum 
closer. Leaves more acute, the radical ones more persistent, usually glabrous 
above, white underneath. Flower-heads not forming so compact a head, and 
each involucre broader, — brown. een and achenes the same as in 
G. japonicum.—DC. Prod. vi. 235; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 216 ; Euchiton 
collinum, Cass. (DC.). 
. S. Wales. New England, C. d Bae ce Beckler. 
Tasmania. pastures, not very c D. Hoo 
Var.? radicans, F. Muell. Dwarf and erry Eiere, few, much larger than in 
inary form. 
Victoria. Summits of dere Australian Ge F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. EA Archer 
Var. ? monocephalum, Hoo . f. Fl. Tes . 364. Very dwarf, with linear leaves and 
sulitary flower-heads. pi em ved FM heiter. 
These os arieties may possibly prove to be reduced states of G. alpigenum, for the spe- 
ion. 
G. gymnocephalum, DC. Prod. vi. 235, from Port Ja ckson, G. cephaloideum, be 
DC. Prod. vi. 236, raised in Continental gardens from ies s Australian seed, are proba- 
bly, as suggested by De Candolle, G. collinum and G. j m (Q. involucratum) re — 
béier éi but without the inspection of bileni a ty ‘ti is napal to ascertain the 
poin 
the heads nearly monccious, in some the florets all or nearly all herm 
dite but sterile, in others nearly all ren, with 1 or 2 hermaphrodite in the 
"centre. Inyolucre ovoid, about 2 lines long, Y at the base only, the 
braets ob EN obtuse, scarious, usually of a pale brown. Pappus- -bristles 
numerous, quite free. 
