Senecio. | LXIL. COMPOSIT®. 673 
E mM 20 bracts, has appeared as an introduced weed in some parts of N. S. Wales 
oolls. 
86. BEDFORDIA, DC. 
Flower-heads Geet and discoid. Involuere of nearly equal bracts 
` apparently in a single row, the argins imbricate and scarious. Receptacle 
hed. 
- papillose from below the middle. Achenes angular or striate. Bees 
humerous denticulate bristles.—Shrubs more or less stellate- tomentose. 
Leaves alternate, entire or irregularly crenate. Flower-heads éier $ solitary 
or in clusters or dense panicles shorter than the leaves. Flore s yellow 
The e genus is limited to the two species endemic in Australia. F. Mueller has sci 
to unite it with Sen necio, but the stellate tomentum and axillary inflorescence are quite un- 
known in that — genus, and the style is almost as much that of some Asteree as of 
ecio. The te at it is true in the Andine S. iodopappus, Sch.-Bip., but that 
i cts. 
or panicles - salicina. 
Leaves linear, rarely above 2 i in. long. ` Flower-heads solitary « or 2 together 2. E linearis, 
- B. salicina, DC. Prod. vi. 441. A shrub attaining sometimes B 
to is ft., the branches, under side of the leaves, and involucres covered with 
à stellate tomentum Fee close or loose. and almost floccose. Leaves an- 
| mu. Se gett det the leaves. Involueral bracts about 8, 2 to 24 
es long, obtuse or scarcely acuminate. Achenes glabrous, striate, with 4 
or 5 prominent ribs.—Hook. Lett. on Duke Bed? with a fig. ; Hook: f. FI. 
Tas. i, T9 Cacalia salicina, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 37. t. 179 ; Bot. 
| Reg. t. 9 ; Culcitium salioinum, Marra Syst. iii. 481; Senecio Bedfordii, 
P. inar Oat Hort. Melb. 1 
iech, Bullaruok forest, Whan ; gier Creek, Corner Inlet, Wilhelmi. 
|, Tasmania. Port Dalrymple - Derwent river, R. Brow n; common on the skirts of 
[^ and in the brush, J. D. Hi 
2. B. lineari S, DC. Prod. vi. 4417 A shrub of about 4 to 6 ft., 
se tomentum. Leaves rather hong pr wi: entire, wi h re- 
ov. 
TE Culcitium MS gre "e iii. 4815 rura Billardierii, 
e Muell. Ca Hort. Melb. 1 
; common ago in the central moun- 
Port Dalrymple, Bro wn ; 
EE IA E parts of the ind | in rocky soil, J. D. Hi P I 
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