t$4 FLORA OP TASMANIA. [Composite. 
flowers, and broader, yellow disc of tubular male ones. Involucre of two series of green scales, with membranous 
margins. Receptacle conical, pitted. Achenia compressed, epappose or crowned with a very short pappus. (Name 
from fipaxys, short, and KOfirj, hair; in allusion to the short pappus.) 
§ 1. ScAPOSiE. — Leav- ■< on scapes. 
1. Brachycome decipiens (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 114) ; glaberrima, foliis omnibus 
radicalibus stellatim patentibus coriaceis oblongo- v. lanceolato-spathulatis obtusis subacutisve grosse obtuse 
crenato-serratis, scapis foliis subsequilongis nudis v. rarius 1-2-bracteolatis, involucri squamis linearibus 
obtusis margine atris, acheniis oblique obovatis non alatis pubescentibus. {Gunn, 511.) (Tab. XLVII.) 
Hab. Abundant in grassy meadows, etc., throughout the Colony, Lawrence, Gunn. — (Fl. Aug.-Nov.) 
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Distrib. South-eastern Australia. 
The remarkable similarity of this plant to the common English Daisy (Bellis perennis) is very curious, and has 
perhaps given rise to the impression that the latter plant is a native of Australia (see Schleiden, ' The Plant'). There 
are indeed specimens of B. perennis in our Herbarium from Gunn, but grown in gardens, where however it does not 
thrive.— Very variable in size. Rhizome very short, thick, sending out numerous stout, fleshy fibres. Leaves 1-4 
inches long and f-1 broad, very coriaceous, lanceolate or oblong, spathulate, more or less toothed, narrowed into 
a broad petiole. Scapes one or more, erect, each bearing one head J-l inch across. Involucral scales linear-oblong, 
blunt, with broad, black margins. Ray white. Achenia compressed, hairy, crowned with a few short, spreading, 
compressed, toothed scales.— Plate XLVII. Pig. 1, floret of ray; 2, scales of pappus; 3, arms of style; 4, floret 
of disc ; 5, scale of its pappus ; 6, stamen ; 7, style :— all magnified. 
2. Brachycome tenuiscapa (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. iiot. vi. 114); glabrata v. glaberrima, 
rhizomate brevi robusto, foliis coriaceis omnibus radicalibus confertis anguste subcuneato-spathulatis obtusis 
apices versus grosse paucidentatis trifidisve, scapo elongato gracili solitario unifloro nudo vel bracteolis 3-4 
mfenoribus subfoliaceis instructo, involucri squamis late linearibus obtusis, acheniis non alatis obovatis gla- 
berrimis, pappo coronaeforrni minuto. {Gunn, 321.) (Tab. XLVIII. B.) 
Hab. Arthur's Lakes and Middlesex Plains, Gunn.— (Fl. Jan., Feb.) 
Distrib. Australian Alps, Victoria, Mueller. 
A much more slender and graceful species than B. decipiens. —Rhizome stout. Leaves numerous, spreading, 
coriaceous, ±-l| inch long, obovate or cuneate-spathulate, coarsely toothed or lobed— chiefly towards the apex- 
very variable in length and breadth. Scapes slender, erect, much longer than the leaves, with several foliaceous 
bracts below the middle, rarely naked, pubescent or glandular towards the top. Capitula small, i-f inch across. 
Involucral scales linear, blunt, not margined with black, or very obscurely so.— Plate XLVIII. B. Pig. 1, scale of 
involucre ; 2, flower of ray ; 3, arms of its style ; 4, immature achenium ; 5, flower of disc ; 6, stamen ; 7, arms of 
the style; S, ripe achenium: — all magnified. 
(Steetz in Plant. Preiss. i. 429) ; glaberrima, rhizomate elongato gracili 
repente ramoso, foliis omnibus (v. plerisque) radicalibus anguste lineari-elongatis integerrirais v. irregulariter 
pinnatifidis, scapis erectis ascendentibusve gracilibus 1-2-foliatis, involucri squamis lineari-oblongis obtusis, 
acheniis late alatis disco sulcatis alls rugosis.— L. pogonocarpa, MuelL in Eort. Kew. {Gunn, 397, 513.) 
Hab. Marshy places, etc. : Marlborough, Arthur's Lakes, and South Esk Eiver, Gunn.— (Fl. Dec, 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, Mueller. (Cultivated in England.) 
A slender, graceful species, everywhere quite glabrous. -Rhizomes long, slender, creeping, and rooting. Leaves 
all radical or a few on the scapes, 3-10 inches long, very narrow-linear, not * inch broad, blunt, quite entire 
