178 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Composites. 
§ 6. Leaves small (less than half an inch), narrow, tomentose below. Heads small, solitary, sessile, axillary or 
terminal. Ligules large. 
14. Eurybia ramulosa (DC. Prodr. v. 270) ; fruticosa, ramis ramulisque gracilibus virgatis pu- 
bescenti-tomentosis scabrisve setuloso-hirtis, foliis parvis alternis subfasciculatisve linearibus obtusis acutisve 
integerrimis superne scaberulis muricatisve marginibus revolutis subtus tomentosis, capitulis ad apices 
ramulorum brevissimorum secus ramos foliatos dense racemosis sub-20-fioris, involucro flores subsequante, 
pappo uniseriato subsequali, acheniis sericeis. — Nob. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 108. 
Var. a; ramis pubescenti-tomentosis scaberulisve, foliis parvis linearibus, capitulis ramulis brevissimis 
secus ramos racemosis. — E. ramulosa, DC. Prodr. v. 270. Diplosteplrium ramulosum, Nee*, 1st. 193. 
Aster ramulosus, Lab. Nov. Noll. ii. 50. t. 196. {Gunn, 1133, 1134.) (v. v.) 
Var. @. elongata; ramis cano-puberulis, ramulis elongatis, foliis sparsis superne Iambus, capitulis 
majoribus floriferis. {Gunn, 1136.) 
Var. y. jloribmida ; ramis pubescentibus, ramulis brevibus, foliis patentibus superne opacis vix scabe- 
rulis, capitulis perplurimis.— E. Epileia, DC. Prodr. v. 270. {Gunn, 38.) 
Var. 8. densa; ramis pubescentibus fastigiatis, foliis minimis. {Gunn, 827.) 
Var. e. ericcefolia ; ramis pubescentibus, foliis densis subimbricatis. 
Var. £ laxa ; ramis pubescentibus pilosisque, foliis latioribus marginibus subrevolutis superne muri- 
cato-scaberulis. {Gunn, 1135 Cult.) 
Var. 7}. grandifolia; ramis tomentosis, foliis majoribus lineari-obovatis obtusis. {Gunn, 1133.) {v. v.) 
Var. 0. aculeata; ramis setuloso-hirtis, foliis superne muricato-scaberulis. — E. aculeata, DC. Prodr. 
v. 270. Aster aculeatus, Lab. Nov. Roll. ii. 52. t. 200. Aster exasperatus, Link, En. ii. 328. Diplo- 
stephium aculeatum, Nee*, Ad. 192. {Gunn, 38.) {v. v.) 
Ha.b. Common throughout the Island. — (Fl. Oct.-Dec.) {v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia and New South Wales. 
A very common and variable plant. De Candolle distinguishes the E. aculeata by its having hairs on the; 
branches (ramis setuloso-hirtis), and E. ramulosa by these being pubescent and scabrous (pubesccnti-scabris) ; but 
if the two are different, the best character is the muricated or scabrous upper surface of the leaves of E. aculeata, 
which, though described as also being so in E. ramulosa, I do not find to be always the case. An original specimen 
of E. aculeata, from Labillardiere's Herbarium, communicated by Webb, has the upper surface of the leaf quite 
glabrous and smooth, though described and figured by Labillardiere himself as muricated.— A shrub, 3-6 feet high, 
with pubescent and sometimes setose or scabrid branches. Leaves very small, £-i inch long, linear or linear-oblong, 
alternate or fascicled, scabrid above, with revolute margins, tomentose below. Heads very numerous, larger or 
smaller than the leaves, sessile on very short branchlets, which, being extremely numerous, give the inflorescence a 
racemose appearance.— The varieties enumerated are not distinct forms I fear, and some may very probably have 
been gathered from one individual. 
15. Eurybia lepidophylla (DC. Prodr. v. 270) ; fruticosa, ramulis robustis dense lanato-tomentosis, 
foliis exiguis diametro ramulo brevioribus conferto-fasciculatis oblongis rotundatisve crassis marginibus re- 
volutis integerrimis coriaceis subtus albo-tomentosis, capitulis ad apices ramulorum brevissimorum solitariis 
sessilibus sub-S-floris, pappi setis 1-seriatis subsequalibus v. 2-seriatis inasqualibus setis extimis brevibus. 
Var. a; ramulis robustis, acheniis sericeis villosisve.— Aster microphallus, Lab. Nov. Roll. ii. 51. t. 
199 ; DC. Prodr. v. 270. A. lepidophyllus, Per*. End. ii. 442. {Gunn, 149.) 
Var. 0. Lawrenciij ramulis gracilioribus, acheniis glaberrimis. (An species distincta?) {Gunn, 826.) 
Hab. Var. a. Sand-hills always near the sea, on the northern parts of the Island, Lawrence, Gunn. 
\ ar. £. Western Mountains, 3000 feet, and Middlesex Plains, Lawrence, Gunn.—(F\. Jan., Feb.) 
