670 LXII. COMPOSITAE. [ Senecio. 
annual, 6 in. to a foot or rarely 14 ft. high, glabrous or sprinkled with a few 
on white hairs. Leaves linear with a few small distant teeth or irregularly 
pinnatifid with few distant linear lobes. Flower-heads small, solitary or 
clustered at the ends of the branches of a loose irregular panicle.  Involuere 
cylindrical, of about 8 bracts, about 2 lines long, with 1 or 2 minute outer 
ones. Ray-florets about 6, the ligule oblong but very short and rolled back. 
Disk-florets 10 to 12, slender, 5-toothed, scarcely exceeding the involucre. 
Achenes densely pu übescent, those of the ray usually longer than those of the 
` disk.— Zrechthites glossantha, Sond. in Linnea, xxv. 524. 
N. S. Wales. Darling river, Victorian Expedition ; between Stokes’ Range and 
Va ëch Sag Wheeler. 
Near Melbourne, Adamson ; Wendu valley, Robertson ; Wimmera, Dal- 
lac. 
s Australia. g Ce veto F. Mueller : 
ustralia. n River, Dr kee n. 44, Preiss (no number) ; Murchison 
river, e, WE 
Var. (?) major. Flower-heads larger. Involucres e 3 lines Din with about 12 bracts. 
Florets also more numerous. Point Nepean and Wilson's Promontory, F. Mue ller, also in 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 377. This variety, pillapis a distinct species, is only to o be 
distinguished from the European S. sylvaticus by the less divided leaves. ` 
Var. (?) elatior. Tall and stout (the lower part of the plant not seen). Leaves f ` 
pa linear or lanceolate unequal lobes, the larger ones denticulate. Flower-heads num: dem 
n a large terminal corymb, otherwise as in the t typical form. ' Achenes glabrous. —B it 
eier Herb. F. Mueller 
- Series II. Discorpgr.— Flower-heads small, discoid. Involucre cylin- 
drical. 
2 o us, DO. Prod. vi. 371. An erect rigid perennial of 
1 to 2 ft., covered when young with white cottony wool whic usually per- 
sists on the under side of the leaves, or rarely nearly glabrous. Leaves linear 
or asns — or wagen toothed, rarely almost pinnatifid, 1 to to 3 or 
even , usually narrowed into a petiole which is somete 
slightly died ge the base but not dëitiegg eene rather small, 
more prominent than in most species. Florets €: 30, all di Lee? 
ing the involucre. Achenes pubescent.— S. barkhausioides, er 
Mose. 1851, ii. 86°; S. helichrysoides, F. Muell. in =a Vict. Tist, 1855,3 
N. S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler (a drawn-up imperfect specimen) ; banks of 
Lake George, A. Aene ingham o 
Vict rassy subalpine ridges, Macalister river, Mitta-Mitta Range, Lake Ome? 
F. Mueller, 
asmania. Derwent river, R. Brown (appears to be this species). ] 
s. Australia. Salt Gulley Behr ; Ty about t Wheal Barton mines, F. Mueller. 
W. Australia, Drummond, Sih Coll. à. 918. thie Me 
This J eng has the foliage and habit gee of Erechthites terrae: but the 1 
much larger and the florets all hermaphrodite and thed. 
22. S, Gilberti, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1851, en Beie? 
perennial, the young wee Zoe with a gegen wii wool, Let 
