664 LXII. COMPOSITA. [ Senecio, 
Wales. From the Lachlan and Darling rivers to the Barrier Range, Victorian 
and other Expeditions. 
Victoria. . N.W. desert, L. Morton ; Wimmera, Dallachy. 
. Australia. Cooper’s Creek, 4. C. Gregory; Wills’ Creek, Howitt’s Expedition ; 
Fincke river, M*Douall Stuarts Expedition. 
The species differs from all other Senecios known to me, in the involucre with the bracts 
almost as closely connate as in Werneria and Euriops, but in other respects the characters 
are entirely those of Senecio. 
2. S. platylepis, DC. Prod. vi.371. An erect slightly branched annual 
of 1 to 2 ft., glabrous or with a little loose wool. Leaves narrow, irregularly 
pinnatifid, with obtuse or acute coarsely-toothed lobes, the petioles often di- 
ated and auriculate at the base. Flower-heads rather large, not numerous, 
in an irregular terminal leafy corymb, the peduncles dilated at the top. In- 
volucre broadly campanulate, 4 to 5 lines long, the bracts rather broad, 
united at the base, without any or with 1 or 2 minute outer bracts. Ray- 
florets 12 to 20, the ligule long and spreading; disk-florets numerous. 
Achenes striate, pubescent or hirsute. | 
N.S. Wales. Low flat land at the foot of Peel’s Range, 4. Cunningham, Fraser. 
3. S. papillosus, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. ii. 69, and in 
Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 201. A perennial with a short thick nearly Eat 
ing ligule ; disk-florets numerous, not exceeding the involucre.—Hook. 
Fi. Tasm. ii. 365. : 
Tasmania. Mo i i to be a variety 
the New Zealand S, Gellidiondan Hook i. i Le my Possibly prove | 
. S. primulifolius, F. Muell. in "Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. ii. 69. A 
perennial with a short thick glabrous or slightly woolly stock. Leaves chiefly 
radical, petiolate, cordate-ovate, obtuse, slightly sinuate-toothed or irregularly 
crenate, 1 to 3 in. long, rather thick, glabrous or with a little loose deciduous 
wool, pale underneath but not white. Flower-stems or scapes not exceeding 
1 ft., single or nearly so, bearing a few small distant leaves or sometimes one 
larger one below the middle. Flower-heads 1 or 2 or rarely 3 or 4, rather 
arge. Involuere broadly campanulate, the bracts about 4 lines long with à 
few small outer ones. Ray-forets about 10 to 12, the ligule long and 
spreading ; disk-florets numerous, scarcely exceeding the involucre. Achenes 
glabrous, but not seen ripe.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 365. 
Tasmania. Mount Lapeyrouse, Oldfield. 
