668 LXII. COMPOSITA. [Senecio. 
into few lanceolate entire or slightly toothed lobes or segments, of which the 
iddle ones usually large, the upper and lower ones small, the whole leaf 
4 to 5 lines long, with few smaller outer ones. Ray-florets about 10 to 15, 
the ligule long and spreading ; disk-florets numerous, shortly exceeding the 
involucre. Achenes glabrous. 
N.S. Wales. Grose river, R. Brown; Hastings and Clarence rivers and Mount 
Mitchell, Beckler ; swamps near Port Jackson, Lowne, Clowes ; Blue Mountains, Miss 
Atkinson ; Bent's Basin and near Camden, Wools. : : i 
ia. Shady moist valleys of the Dandenong ranges, of Mount Disappointment an 
on Delatite river, F. Mueller. . à 
15. S. amygdalifolius, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 232. A tall, erect, gla- 
brous perennial. Leaves petiolate, ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute 
and acutely and coarsely serrate, 2 to 4 in. long. Flower-heads rather large 
and few in a loose corymb or smaller and more densely corymbose. Invo- 
5 li 
N.S. Wales. Hastings river, Bechler ; Port Macquarrie, Backhouse, also Vicary. 
16. S. velleioides, 4. Cunn. in DC. Prod. vi. 314. An erect glabrous 
perennial, attaining 3 ft. or sometimes more. Leaves ovate-oblong or lanceo- 
late, the lower ones shortly petiolate, the intermediate ones 2 to 4 in. long, 
coarsely serrate, narrowed below the middle but sessile and stem-clasping 
with broad rounded auricles, the upper ones cordate-ovate or lanceolate, entire, 
broadly stem-clasping. Flower-heads not large and often rather nume- 
rous, in a terminal corymb.  Involuere campanulate, the bracts 3 to nearly 4 
lines long, with a very few small outer ones. Ray-florets usually about 10 or 
rather fewer, spreading and rather long; disk-florets scarcely exceeding the 
M Achenes glabrous or slightly pubescent.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 
, N. S. Wales. Rocky hills to the north of Bathurst, 4. Cunningham ; Nepean river, 
R. Cunningham ; Blue Mountains, Miss Atkinson; Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. ` 
ictoria. Wooded hills, Wilson's Promontory, Apollo Bay, Upper Barwan river, Dan- 
denong range, ete., F. Mueller. 
. Tasmania. Derwent river, R. Brown; damp shaded alpine parts of the colony, grow- 
ing in very rich soil, J. D. Hooker. 
ustralis, Willd. Spec. ii. 1981. A tall perennial, either quite 
glabrous or the under side of the leaves slightly cottony-white. Leaves, 1 
the typical form, linear or lanceolate, sessile, quite entire or the base di- 
lated into small acuminate auricles, the larger leaves 5 to 6 in.long. Flower- 
heads small and numerous, in a large terminal corymb. Involucre cylin- 
drical, of about 10 to 12 bracts, not 2 lines long, with scarcely any sma 
