406 : CXXII. IRIDEX. [Patersonia. 
P. longifolia, R. Br. Prod. 303. Very near to P. sericea, but 
3 ime scarcely above 1 line broad, sometimes very long, sometimes 
not much exceeding the spike. Scape 3 to 8 in. long. Spike smaller 
than in P. sericea, the outer bracts often not much above 1 in. long, but 
in SA respects like those of that species drying black, covered when 
young with a silky wool, and prominently striate when the wool wears 
T €—— longifolia, F. Muell. F UAR vii. 35. 
Wales. Grose river, R. Brown; Hunter's river, Oldfield ; Port Jackson 
Bins Mountains, 5 Moore, Vica, inni others ; Cape Sturt, ackliouse.— Perhaps 
á icity of P. s 
. P. sericea, R. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 1041, Prod. 303. Stems 
scarcely any. Leaves radical, Tur erect and rigid, ' rarely above 2 lines 
broad, the edges very woolly at the base when young. es shorter 
times very minute Blamante at E shortly free but at len h often 
wer. le joi 
wv 
ions "Por Bowe Brow qoem inna F. Melle; ; Wide bay, 
Leehharde; ¢ Clason Mountulca: fpei Dawson river, Woolls. 
. Wal on, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 196, and others; New Eng- 
land, "O. Stuart 3 Dana ce river, Mod sire river and Mount Mitchell, Beckler ; 
southward to Twofold ke F. 
Victoria. Ge ver and Maná "Wellington, F. Mueller 
Var. ^ egi eae diis fully 3 lines broad.— Blue idani Fraser. 
, Edw. Bot. Reg. t. 51, seems to represent a glabrous state of P. sericea, 
it is ety ‘not the P. glabrata, B. Br. 
dark-ooloured and striate as in J . sericea, but rarely much above 
Flowers usually numerous, the wool of the ovary and of the 
Dade of f the tube loose and very co . Perianth-tube not exceeding 
the bracts; outer s ts of the li very broad and rounded, of à 
deep weise ; inner segments small, obovate or oblong naa 
cape sli E mu: .—Sweet, Fl. Austral. t. 15; 
uell. Fragm. vii. 3 
w. ace Lucky E ER. Brown, and probably the same locality, Baxter. 
Var. Jatifolia. Leaves 3 lines broad.—P. pannosa, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 29. 
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