- Brechthites.] LXII. COMPOSITA, 659 
N.S. Wales. Grose river, R. Brown; Blue Mountains, Miss Atkinson. 
3. E. a » DC. Prod. vi. 296. A rather coarse erect herb of 1 te 
2 ft. when ai pated only a ZE but with a hard base, sometimes pré- 
mo 
terminal corymb much more dense than in Z. quadridentata. Involucre in 
the normal form about 3 lines long, of about 12 narrow bracts, often squar- 
Tose at the tips and surrounded by a few minute outer ones. Florets rather 
numerous, the females in 2 or more rows, with about 6 to 10 hermaphrodites in 
the cen tre. Achenes short, angular, ded hirsute or glabrous.— Hook. f. FI. 
- Tasm. i. 219 ; Senecio a argu uis, A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. 258, and Sert. Astrol. 
104; S. Seiten, A. Rich. Sert. Ka 105 ; Erechthites decals: F. Muell. 
dn Linnza, XXV. 417; Senecio Lessdni, F. Muell. Cat. Hort. Melb. 1858, 26. 
S. ogra Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls ; New England, C. Stuart; Clarence 
a. Not uncommon in waste places, J. D. Hi eg 
Sex Een. Cudnaka, Onkaparinga, Kangaroo Island, er. 
ustralia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 376, also n. 43 (vit. narrower leaves some- 
‘times entire). 
_ The species is also in — Acorn 
ussecta, Taller with the Ges more div , once o r almost ennai afew 
ofthe "ve florets sometimes Sa ad lit ^ We end but never in apa heads examined 
Tally ligulate.—Z. Bathurstiana, DC. Prod. vi. äs 7.—Rocky hills in the selari of 
a A. Cunningham ; hbar Dalla 
e 
enecio glomeratus, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. 124, or E glomera kan var. 
D 297, and Neoceis microcephala, Cass. (DC.), Senecio pumilus, Poir. ^D. eg gres v. 130, 
Y E. pumila, DC. Prod. vi. 297, and Senecio pusillus, A. Rich. Sert. Astrol. 99; DC. Prod. 
m of which I have received from M. Decaisne a flower-head, in which the outer florets 
certainly female and 4-to SS: 
DC. Prod. vi. i 297. Apparently perennial and tall, sca- 
E with the divided leaves often cottony underneath of E. arguta 
I. dissecta, but with much longer flower-heads, the involucres exceeding 4 
tes like those Æ. hispidula but much more slender, consisting of about 12 
acts, and the panicle loose like that of Æ. quadriden entata.— miztus, 
. Rich. Sert. Astrol. 112. t. 36 (the leaves more divided ie in our speci- 
ens); E. picridioides, Sond. and Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 
ON, 90, 5 
QS ae Memory OE yd ih near Moorundee, F. Mueller ; 
s Gulf, W. 
species es devi a farther investigation from more perfect specimens. 
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