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660 LXII. COMPOSITÆ. [ Erechthites. 
. quadridentata, DC. Prod. vi. 295. An erect herb more or less 
clothed with a white deciduous cottony vL from 1 to above 2 ft. high, with 
a perennial rhizome. Leaves linear, " linear-lanceolate or very rarely oblong- 
lanceolate, the radical ones sometimes petiolate, the stem leaves sessile, entire 
or with a few small distant teeth, the longer ones attaining 3 or 4 in. with or 
without small stem-clasping auricles. Flowe r-heads slender in a terminal 
corymbose panicle usually loose but ipse more crowded. Involucre 
narrow, about 4 lines long, of about 12 very narrow bracts. Female filiform 
florets 30 to 40 or more, the ci in the centre few (not above 
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beak or scarcely percepti tible.—Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 483 ; : e 
i. 219; Senecio p Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl ii. 48.t. 194; 5. Cer: 
Joru Sich, Pl. Exs ; E. tenuiflora, DC. Prod. vi. 296; E. incana, urea 
n Bull. Mose. 1851, i. 85. 
ueensland, F. Mueller; Moreton Bay, Leichhardt ; Keppel Bay, Thozet. — 
. Wales. I Jackson or Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 435; rocky hills ne 
Bathurst, A. Cunningha 
ctoria. Wendu vs Robertson ; Wimmera, Dallachy ; Station Peak, Herb. F. 
Mueller. "e 
Tasmania. Table Mountain, — river and Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; 
ein t Island, Dass e Straits, Gan ; 
tralia. Spencer’ Gulf, "Thir d Creek, F. Muelle 13 
alia. River, Drummond, n. 332, and Sih Coll. n. 319; Preiss, n. doy 
126, Oldfield ; Kalgan ri river, Oldfield. 
Th and. gës: 
Var. glabrescens. hie enm the lower Sg? iere oblong, with a few cos 
teeth, upper leaves linear and entire. Æ. glabre Prod. vi. 295.—Plains eee x 
ies south of Lake George, 4. Cunn?n iam) ; Mir rà Bones hod Milne ; near 
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rne, F. Mueller, Adamson ; reen Head, Guan.—Nearly the same variety passing ` 
into the <font ge one, Wimmera, Dallachy. 
Var Very woolly-white. Leaves mostly emm oblong, entire with a 
remote teeth. —E. Gunnis, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 122, and Fl. fen, 
psi 63 ën River and Yarra-Yarra, F. Mueller ; esta on ; die summits of the We 
tains, Gunn. 
E. com DC. Prod. vi. 295, from Lachlan river, 4. tab Toe or Senecio glaw 
dulosus, A. Cunn., appears to be a luxuriant form of Æ. quadridentata 
hispidula, DC. Prod. vi. 296 (P). A stout erect perennial í Y > 
to 2 ft. or rather more, glabrous or sieni rar gp and frequently wit 
little white cottony wool on the under side of the leaves. Leaves linear ag 
lanceolate, entire, coarsely toothed or remotely pinnatifid, often eo 
sometimes with stem-clasping auricles. Flower-heads larger than in £. va 
ridentata, in a terminal loose or compact corymbose panicle. eatin 
4 to 5 lines long or even more, thicker than in Æ. quadridentata, usu? y 
15 to 20 bracis, with several small outer ones. Florets very numerous, 
females in several ro ws. Achenes slender and striate as in E. gua adri Tob 
or rather shorter.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 220; Senecio hispidulus, A. rad 
Sert. Astrol. 92 (from the description but scarcely the figure, t. 34) ; 8. icar: 
rosus, A. Rich. l. c. 107. t. 35 (from the description and plate) ; E. Ric 
diana, DO. Prod. vi. 297. 
