18 2 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Composite. 
nate or lobed, hispid at the margins and below. Heads on short peduncles, less than £ inch broad. Pappus of 
many unequal, scabrid, red hairs. 
2. Vittadinia cuneata (DC. Prodr. v. 281) ; caule basi lignoso, ramis erectis elongatis gracilibus 
parce pubescenti-pilosis pilis appressis patentibusve, foliis anguste lineari-cuneatis interdum sublobatis in- 
tegerrimisve apicibus ssepe recurvis, pedunculis gracilibus nudiusculis pubescentibus tomentosisve, capitulis 
subcorymbosis raajusculis, pappo albo v. rufescente nitido.— -Eurybiopsis gracilis, Nob. in Land. Journ. Bot. 
vi. 110. {Gunn, 695.) 
Hab. Common in many parts of the Island, in dry fields, bushy places, roadsides, etc., Lawrence, 
Gunn.—(F\. Nov.) (v. v.) 
Disteib. Extratropical Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, and Swan River. 
A variable plant, of which V. triloba, DC., is a variety. This is one of the very few Australian Composite 
that ranges completely across the continent, from New South Wales to Swan River. It is readily distinguished 
from V. scabra by its greater size, more slender habit, generally appressed, much softer pubescence, more slender, 
pubescent or tomentose peduncles, much longer leaves (f-li inch long), subcorymbose, larger heads, and shining, 
white or dull yellow-red pappus. Rays purplish. Achenia very compressed, pubescent, furrowed, often as long 
as the involucral scales.-A. Cunningham's original specimens have smaller leaves than any others which I have 
examined, and which are from six or seven very distant localities. 
Gen. IV. ERIGERON, L. 
Capitulum multifloram, radiatum; fi. radii fcemineis, pluriseriatis v. pauciseriatis, ligulis angustis; 
disci tubulosis, omnibus v. pleris hermaphroditis. Involucri squamse herbace*e, lineares, pauciseriate. Be- 
ceptaculum angustum. Pappus 1-seriatus, setis scabris, suba^qualibus. Achenium compressum.-Herb* ; 
species Tasmania omnes alpigen*, scapes*; radicibus fibrosis ; foliis omnibus radicalibus ; scapis nndis 
bracteahsve, monocephalis ; fi. radii pauciseriatis (roseis) ; ligulis angustis, marginibus involutis. 
After much examination and some vacillation, I have determined upon referring the little group of Tasmanian 
LomposUa 'which, m the 'London Journal of Botany,' I placed in Aplopappus, to Erigeron, to which Labdlardiere 
referred the first-described species, and to which Mueller has since doubtfully referred my A. Gunnii. A few of 
the speces are also natives of the alps of South-eastern Australia; none have been found in New Zealand, but 
several inhabit Fuegia and Chili. 
The genus Erigeron, as at present constituted, includes a vast number of chiefly north temperate herbs. The 
lasmaman species are all alpine or subalpine herbs, with fibrous roots, and spathulate, radical leaves, and one- 
headed, erect scapes.-^^ 1 road Involucral scales of about two series, linear, acuminate, herbaceous. Movers 
.umaic, rayed, in two or more series, rays narrow, with involute margins; florets of the disc tubular. 
Receptacle narrow, alveolate. Pappus white or reddish, of one series, of nearly equal, rigid, scabrid hairs. Achenia 
compressed. (Name, the Greek one of this or a similar genus.) 
1. Erigeron Pappochroma (Lab. Nov. Holl. ii. 47. t. 193); glaberrimum, foliis breviter petio- 
la is obovato-spathulatis obtusis coriaceis integerrimis v. obscure dentatis, scapo solitario rarius 2-3 gra- 
cili i glabernmo apice glanduloso-puberulo superne braeteolato, capitulis parvis, involucri squamis dorso 
TlZ Pr0dT ' V ' 288> Apl ° PaPPU3 Pa PP° chrom ^ Nob. in Loud. Journ. Bot. vi. 111. (**** 
Hab. Summit of Mount Wellington, and Recherche Bay, Labi Hard Vere , GW-(F1. Jan.) 
X^T^^"' Sathered b ° th ° n M0Unt WeUin ^° n and at Re « e Bay (in the locality visited by Labil- 
Hotk L H r >! n - n0 ^f " fr ° m tb ° Se ° f ^ mUStri ° US "W himself > communicated by Mr. Webb to the 
ilerbanum. As a species this is intermediate between E. Tasmanicnm and E Gunnii, differing from the 
