680 LXII. COMPOSITE. [ Sonchus. 
S. Australia. n Gambier, Bugle Range, Torrens river, ete., F. Mueller ; towards 
Spetieer’s Gul Gulf, Waterh 
W. alia. geet. River, Drummond, n. 75, 317, Preiss, n. 116, 117; Don 
river, crabe Murchison river, Oldfield. 
weed o redon probably indigenous to Europe and temperate Asia, but now dis- 
tributed oe Bes er part of the globe and perhaps truly indigenous in Australia. There 
are two marked Airi ; z d one (S. asper) the ribs of the achenes are perfectly SC 
in ee other, for which the name of S. tret eus is more one s retained, they are ked 
with transverse e “Both occur in Australia, as also aritime variet h the ; 
iv. penis as large as in S. arvensis, but without the glandular hispid Data Dei of that 
cies. 
' The follo ii Tasche Cichoriacee are amongst the introduced weeds in some of the 
Australian colon : 
^ Arnoseris pail, Gertn.; DC. Prod. vii. 79 (Lapsana pusilla, Willd.). A small annual, 
E or nearl Leaves all ^ mk Botas or oblong, toothed. Flower-stalks slightly 
some very small outer ones. Achenes crowned 2 hs a Zoe ute raised border.— Tasmania, 
much spread as to be apparently indigenous, J. 
orium Intybus, gir DC. Prod. vii. 84 Grey or y Chico ry). A perennial, more 
or less hairy, erect with st ff spreading branches. Radical leaves vga, a n the ground 
and lower stem-leaves inia with a large terminal lobe, upper leaves small and less cut. 
Flower-heads in ey sessile Gen zi 2 or 3 along the bran gie? vin large florets, all 
ue 
shortly dilated and s sheathing at the base, the upper ones shorter and broader. Pola 
long, thickened at the summit, each with a "e head of purple florets. Involucre of,8 to 
12 nearly equal bracts longer than the florets. Achenes narrowed m Se rung ring 
à pappus of feathery bristles omar in Ge ie fields n » Woolls. 
M saligna, ins. Do. Prod. vii. 136. ect stiff glabrous Aari or eg 
^ 2 or 3 ft. Leaves narrow, erect, cla asping the -— with pointed auricles, entire or with 
ew bc or Sms Ka Flower-heads rather small, clustered on gu pat eg of a 
oi panic uere narrow, 4 or 5 lines long, of a few imbricate Florets 6 
o 10, ofa pale ae all qure Aer much eet EN Se uced into 
a slender beak two or three times their own length and a pappus s of 1 numerous white 
~~ ament bristles, — Australia Felix, F, win lar. 
cum Dens-leonis, Desf. DC. Pro . vii. 145 (including also perhaps the whole 25 
spiel species of De Gest fs § 2) (Dan ae n). perennial with a thick bitter tap- 
l [ r Florets 3 e 
striate, tapering into a slender beak two or three times their own len an 
appus of numerous simple hairs.—Now common about Melbourne and in the sët: of the 
Avon, F. Mueller ; also in Tasmani, and in West Australia, Drummond, n. 367. 
