180 BOTANICAL NOTES. 
Near Mount Tyndall; Snake Plains, Mount Wellington; 
Cutting Grass Swamp, Mount Arthur, near New Norfolk. 
Actinotus bellidioides (B).—This plant is no less remarkable 
for the peculiar suppression of one mericarp than for its 
extreme variability. J.D. Hooker, in Lond. Journ. vi., 471, 
described four species, Hemiphues affinis, tridentata, belli- 
dioides, and suffocata. In the Flora Tasmaneze he combinse 
them under the name H. bellidioides, and he there figures one > 
“variety, var. fulva with petals,a development that is received in 
doubt by most botanists. The material he had at his 
command was meagre, and though we are not now supplied 
with a perfect series, we have forms that would probably have 
modified his views. Bentham transferred the species to the 
genus Actinotus. In all forms hitherto described the leaves 
‘are either entire or crenate on the margin. I have now in my 
possession a form rather more robust than most specimens, 
with the leaves palmately divided nearly to the petiole into 3 
or 5 lanceolate segments, otherwise it does not differ from the 
type of A. bellidioides; it was found on Mount Tyndall by T. 
B. Moore. The variety figured by Hooker as var. svffocata 
was, unfortunately, in advanced fruit only. My friend Wm. 
Fitzgerald has put me in the position to examine the plant 
in all stages, and its constant dwarf habit, total absence of 
‘ealyx-limb, and reduction of stamens to 2 only, warrant us in 
considering it specificaily distinct. 
Actinotus suffocata.—Very similar in habit and detail to the * 
smaller forms of A. bellidioides, but still smaller. Leaves oblong, 
glabrous entire, 1 to 2 lines long on a hairy petiole as long as 
itself. Peduncle half-inch long, slender, bearing a small 
head 14 lines diameter, bracts about 8 or 10. Flowers about 
6 to 10. Calyx-limb none. Petals‘none. Stamens 2, articu- 
late opposite the styles. Fruit about half-line long. Mount 
Dundas, and other mountains in the®vicinity. (Plate II.) 
Isoétopsis graminifolia (Turez).—This peculiar and interest- 
ing little isoétes-like composite constitutes the sole member of 
the genus, and has hitherto been found in Southern and 
Eastern Australia only. I have lately found it rather 
abundantly on grassy hills about Hobart. Baron von Miller, 
who kindly identified it for me, is of the opinion that if 
is certainly endemic. 
Helichrysum obtusifolium (F. v. M., et Lond.).—A perennial 
everlasting, but often flowering the first year so as to appear 
annual. It has the appearance and details otherwise of H. 
dealbatum except that the leaves and flower-heads are smaller ; 
in these details it approaches our southern perennial, H. 
Spiceri, which, however, has still smaller flowers. Baron von 
Miieller wishes me to introduce the plant in this paper. It 
was lately found at Clarke Island by Mrs. McLaine. 
