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Senecio.] LXII. COMPOSIT X. 671 
sessile and stem-clasping, lanceolate, deeply pinnatifid, with lanceolate often 
toothed lobes, woolly- white when young, the wool persisting on the under 
side, the larger ones 2 to 4 in. long. ower-heads small, numerous, in a 
corymbose panicle. Involuere cylindrieal, 2 to 23 lines long, of about 12 
very narrow bracts with a few small outer ones. Florets above 20, all tubular, 
rather longer than the involucre. 
. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, n. 325. This has the aspect of abi netics 
uta, but is a true Senecio. The flower-heads are much larger than in S. ramo 
smaller than in S. Georgianus. 
23. S. ramosissimus, DC. Prod. vi. 371. A stout erect perennial of 
2 to 5 ft., usually glabrous. Leaves broadly lanceolate on the main stem 
and often 4 to 5 in. lon ng, narrower or narrowed below the middle on the side 
LE Steetz in Pl. Preiss 
tralia. King Ge s Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, A. Cunning- 
E eng Swan River, Fraser, Drummond, n. 28, 328, Preiss, n. 10, Oldfield. 
. odoratus, Hornem.; DC. Prod. vi. 371. A stout erect peren- 
ends of the branches, forming usually a large corymbose panicle. Involucre 
cylindrical, rarely exceeding 2 lines, of about 8 bracts, with 1 or 2 small 
ger than the involuere when fully out. Achenes slightly pubescent, 
the pappus inserted on a callous ring more prominent than in the allie 
species, —A. Rich. Sert. Astrol. 109; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 223 ; Cacalia -— 
rata, Desf. Hort. Par. 165 and 400, “according to DC. 
Victoria.  Wendu vale, we ante Skipton, Whan; Wilsop's Promontory, F. 
Beien: Eër Zeng With 
Se" Dirympie, ings Island, R. Brown; Woolnorth, Gunn; Mac- 
ngham 
D. Hooker i p ^ Zon 
N. Zeal. ii. 146, which has indeed the foliage of luxuriant specimens of S. odoratus. 
appears to me quite distinct in the radiate flower-heads Seef n the shape of the involucre 
and florets, which are more like those of a miniature S. 
25. S. Cunninghamii, DC. Prod. vi. 371. This is now considered 
by P. Mueller as a variety of S. odoratus, of which it has the flower-heads 
and florets. It is however smaller and more woody at the base, the stems 
