Microseris.] LXII. COMPOSITE. 677 
xs. S. Wales. Goulburn plains, 4. Cunningham ; Nangas, M‘Arthur ; New England, 
R 
Victoria. Common about Melbourne and to the Glenelg, aech F. Mueller, and 
others ; Skipton, Wan; Mount Remarkable, Delatite river, F. Muell 
_ Tasmania. Derwent river, R. Brown; abundant in good soil in ge parts of the 
Hoo 
: er. 
S. Australia. Bad Creek aud Guichen Bay, F. Mueller. 
eal 
KP diae. Pappu bristles strongly ciliate, almost plumose. I can perceive no 
rence. 
ustralia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 366 ; Scott's Brook, near Cape Arid, Maxwell. 
91. HYPOCHGRIS, Linn. 
(Cyenoseris, Endi.) 
Involuere broad or narrow, often elongated after flowering, the bracis im- 
ess or nearly so. ped 
.. The genus is ig over the a ier, extending also to extratropical South 
America. The on ly Australian ei is found nearly over the whole range of the genas. 
l. H. glabra, Linn.; DO. Prod. vii. 90. A glabrous annual. Leaves 
all radical, narrow, spreading, more or less t toothed or pinnately lobed. 
Stems 6 in. to 1 ft. high, usually divided into a few slender branches, leafless 
xcept small scales at the base of the branches. Flower-heads solitary at the 
ends branches. Involucre cylindrical, at first s mall, but lengthening 
t to from 4 to 2 in. when in fruit, of a few imbricated bracts, the outer 
Ones. short and appressed. Achenes striate and transversely pitted, the 
Pappus of the outer ones i sentio that of the others borne on a long beak ter- 
Minating the achene.—Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 488 ; Cyenoseris australis, Endl. 
n Bot. Zeit. 1843, 459. 
N.S. Wales. Paramat 
Victoria, Robertson ; near die y Bi, De Dallachy. 
` "Tasmania, Gunn ; Flinders Island, Mill 
. S. Australia. Common, F. Mueller se p der 
 W. Australia. Kalgan river, Oldfield ; Swan River, Drummond, n. 74, igi n. 119. 
H. radiata, Linn. ; DC. Prod. vii. 91. A perennial resembling H. glabra, but — 
with e flower-heads, the leaves gece? and all the achenes terminating in a y ot era 
Waring the pappus, a common enum species, is amongst the introduced Pa in ds 
Ke rhood of Paramatta, Wool. 
92. PICRIS, Linn. 
- Involuere of several nearly equal erect inner bracts, with 2 or 3 rows of 
