176 FLORA OP TASMANIA. [Composite. 
(1-1 unc. longis, J-£ latis) supra puberulis glabratisve. — E. Gunniana, DC. Prodr. v. 268. {Gunn, 36, 
180.) (,. v.) 
Var. 0. brevipes; pedicellis breviusculis, capitulis majoribus, foliis anguste lineari-oblongis subsinuato- 
dentatis obtusiusculis. {Gunn, 273, 1137, 1139.) {v. v.) (Tab. XLIV. A.) 
Var. y. angustifolia ; pedicellis brevibus, capitulis ut in var. a, foliis linearibus. {Gunn, 1138.) (v. v.) 
(Tab. XLIV. B.) 
Var. 8. mkrocepkala ; omnia ut in var. a, sed capitulis minoribus pedicellisque brevibus. {Gunn, 180.) 
(». v.) 
Var. e. mm ; dense cano-tomentosa, pedicellis brevibus, capitulis ut in var. a, foliis parvis [$-\ unc. 
longis) obovato-oblongis valde coriaceis utrinque v. subtus pracipue dense cano-tomentosis.— E. subrepanda, 
DC. Prodr. v. 268 {fid. Herb. Lindley). {Gunn, 273.) (Tab. XLIV. C.) 
Var. £ salicifolia; pedicellis elongatis gracilibus, foliis elongato lineari-lanceolatis subintegerrimis 
(1-2* unc. longis). {Gunn, 36 (of 1844), 1255.) 
Var. v . scaberula ; pedicellis capitulisque ut in var. a, foliis latioribus lineari-ellipticis argute serrato- 
dentatis supra scaberulis subtus dense fulvo-tomentosis. {Gunn, 1144.) {v. v.) 
Var. 0. phhgopappa ; pedicellis capitulisque ut in var. a, foliis latioribus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis 
grosse obtuse dentato-serratis repando-dentatisve.— E. quercifolia, Cass. Diet. xvi. 47. Olearia phlogopappa, 
DC. Prodr. v. 272. O. phlogotricha, Spreng. St/st. iii. 525. Aster phlogopappus, Lab. Nov. Boll. ii. 49. 
t. 195. A. {Gunn, 1144.) (v. v.) 
Hab. Very common throughout the Island and at all elevations, ascending to 3000 feet : var. £ on 
the northern side of the Colony; var. near the sea, chiefly on the southern coasts.— (El. Oct., Nov.) 
Distmb. South-eastern Australia; Buffalo Range, Australian Alps, Mueller. (Cultivated in England.) 
An authentic specimen of Labillardiere's Aster phlogopappa, communicated from his Herbarium by the late Mr. 
Webb, proves it to be the same as De Candolle's Eurybia Gunniana, so named in Lindley's Herbarium by De Can- 
dolle himself; and it further agrees perfectly with specimens of E. Gunniana sent by Gunn from Labillardiere's 
own locality at Recherche Bay. According to a rule of priority followed by some, the name Eurybia quercifolia, 
Cass., should be retained for this plant • but there is another plant, Olearia quercifolia, DC, which must be brought 
into Eurybia, and which better deserves that name, and the name E. Gunniana was applied by De CandoUe to a 
much more common form of the species, which is now introduced into our gardens. The name of Gunniana is hence 
perhaps better retained, and all the more from its commemorating the name of the greatest explorer of Tasmanian 
Botany by one of the most beautiful shrubs of the Island, and one so common that every colonist must know it. 
Eurybia Gunniana is one of the most variable shrubs in the Island, and the varieties I have indicated, though 
not constant, may suffice to indicate the more marked deviations from one common form. Some, no doubt, may 
belong to different parts of the same bush, but with plants so protean it is impossible to pronounce upon what 
belongs to the individual and what to its parts. As a species it is distinguished from E lirata by the hoary, less 
grooved stems, much smaller leaves, with the nerves more obscure below ; from E. fulvida also, which is exactly 
ntern ed te I tween E. lirata and E. Gunniana, by the smaller leaves.-A shrub, 3-5 feet high, erect, with erect, 
leafy, hoary or tomentose, obscurely-grooved stems, and very tomentose branches. Leaves abundant, *-2* inches 
long, of all forms between linear-lanceolate or elongate-linear, and linear-oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse or acute, 
glabrous above or rarely puberulous or scabrous, densely tomentose below, with obscure nerves ; margins entire, 
crenate, repando-dentate or tabulate. Panicles few, two- to six-flowered, with long or short buds, generally slender, 
elongated peduncles and pedicels. Heads white, about H inch across, thirty-flowered. Involucral scales linear- 
oDiong, blunt, tomentose. Rays about fifteen. Pappus white or pale rufous, when dry ; set* nearly equal, except 
a tew outer sVmrt ™, <= ti __ A . . J J ^ 
outer short ones. These 
phlogopappa, than in the other vai 
conspicuous in the variety 0, which is De Candolle's Olearia 
i which he refers to Eurybia. Achenia ciliated with long hairs.— Plate 
