Composite.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. \&\ 
1. Celmisia longifolia (Cass. Diet, xxxvii. 259); foliis Magnate lincan-elongatis superne appro**- 
argenteo-araueosis nitidis subtus dense albo-lanatis margiuiluis revolutis, seapis mnltibraetcatis involucri- 
que squamis laxe lanatis, acheniis puberulis. — Cass. Opusc. ii. 20 ; DC Prodr. Y, 20 
ito*. 470. t. 91. C. astelicefolia, Nob. in Fl. Ant. p. 33 in not. ( Gunn, 275.) 
Hab. In bogs on the summits of the mountains, frequent at an elevation of :l-5nin' 
Wellington, Arthur's Lakes, etc., Fraser, Lawrence, Gunn. — (Fl. Jan.) (v. v.) 
Distkib. Alps of South-eastern Australia, Mueller; ami New South Wales, ./. Cunningham. 
When I had only indifferent specimens of the Australian C. longifolia, Cass., I supposed that th 
was specifically distinct from it, but better specimens of the fonner, received from Dr. Mueller, prove that there is no 
difference at all between them.— A very beautiful plant, forming large silvery patches. Leaves erect or spreading I- 1 1 1 
inches long, i-± inch broad, very coriaceous, blunt, acute or acuminate, shaggy with villous wool at their sheathing 
bases, with a shining, membranous cuticle, covered with a lax col tony web, ami densely beneath with thick 
appressed woolly tomentum; margins revolute. Scapes a span long and upwards, stout, erect, woolly, with nume- 
rous linear bracts, -*-£ inch long. Heads yellow or purplish in the centre, with long, white, rev. . . 
with pink, l|-2 inches broad. Involucre broad, seal,- narrow, linear, acuminate, the outer woolK. Ray* linear. 
three-nerved. Pappus of one series of nearly equal, scabrid, white bristles. Aclu-nia linear, angled. 
Gen. III. VITTADINIA, A. Eiek 
Capitulum multifioruin, heterogainum. InvoUteri squama pMMUemte, ingOW b» • - 
culum angustum, convexum, profunde alveolatum, nudum. Fl. radii fuinim i, 1- 
disci hermaphroditi, tubulosi. Pappus sub-2-scriatus; seta Maberulis ina-qinlongi*, ■ \i. rionbus bnvdms. 
AcAeniutn lineare, compressum, sericeum.— Ilerbaw. frotii ah ram ri, iupido-f 
cendentibus, foliosis, in scapos \-cephalos elongatis ; ktiuparvu, aliemii. 
Though very unlike Eurybia and Oelmma in habit, then is little to distinguish tin, gi ans g< aerically from them. 
the absolute character being confined to the compressed, very long achenia. In the N 
A. Richard's V. australis to Eurybiopsis of De Candolle, but upon examining its Australian oongenen I tind these 
are all referable to Vittadinia, whence De Candolle's genus Eurybiopsis should be supj 
four or five species known, which are Australian, except a peculiar species which inhabits New Zealand; all are 
probably extremely variable ; they form hispid or pubescent herbs, with A, ding branches 
that terminate in single-headed peduncles.— Leaves small, alternate. /„■■ w. Rag-flowers 
small, with inconspicuous, revolute ligulse. Pappus very rigid, white or reddish ; out. r 
in length. Achenia, when ripe, sometimes as long as the mvolucral Beaks 
of Carlo FiUadini, an Italian Botanist.) 
1. Vittadinia scabra (DC. Prodr. v. 281) ; caule basi lignoso, ramis plurirais erectis foliosis scabe- 
rulis kispido-pilosisve, foliis linearibus lineari-spathulatisve erectis v. subrecurvis integerrimis v. obtuse 
2-3-dentatis superne scabridis subtus marginibusque hispido-ciliatis, pedunculis brevibus, involucri squa- 
mis liispido-pilosis marginibus tenuiter scariosis, pappo pallide rufo, acheniis hispidis.— Eurybiopsis sca- 
brida, Nob. in Land. Journ. Sot. vi. 110. {Gunn, 696.) 
Hab. Drv stony places ; New Norfolk, Lawrence, Gunn. — (Fl. Nov., Dec.) 
Disteib. Eastern Australia, from the tropic to Victoria. 
A way rigid, much-branched herb, a span to a foot high. Stem woody below. Branches erect, leafy, scabe- 
rulous or hispid. ' Leaves erect or recurved, *-* inch long, linear or linear-spathulate, quite entire or bluntly ere- 
