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or irregularly pinnatifid, with long, slender, patent lobes. Scapes very slender, long, rivet, with one or more in-acted 
leaves below the middle. Capitula i-f inch across. Involucral scales oblong, linear, blunt, not margined with 
black. Achenia with a broad, undulated wing on each side, its faces between the wings grooved.- Clos. ly allied 
to B. angustlfolia, but that is more caulescent, and has broader, acute leaves, with a very strong midrib. 
4. Brachycome linearifolia (DC. Prodr. v. 306); glaberrima, rhizomate brcvi crass 
raineis omnibus radicalibus angustissime lineari-elongatis ereciis flexttosis integemmis, Bcapil 
solitariis foliis longioribus 1-2-bracteatis, capitulis magnis, involucri squamis oblongis obtusis, acheniis 
obovatis puberulis non alatis. {Omm, 158.) 
Hab. Marshes : Mount Wellington, Formosa, Georgetown, etc., generally growing m 
etc.— (Fl. Oct.-Dec.) {v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, ascending to 6000 feet, Mueller. 
A very robust, large-flowered species, ♦>— 1 S inches hi«rh. perfectly glabrous. Rh,:n„w apparei,: 
an inch long, very stout, covered at the apex with the withered remains oi old leav. -. , 
merous, long, naiTow, erect, somewhat rigid and flexuose, 3-8 inches long, - 
solitary, robust, broader than the leaves, with one or two linear bracts. Capitula broad, tlat. whit, 
vate, small, pubescent, noi winged. Pappus very short, of lew hairs. 
5. Brachycome scapiformis (DC. Prodr. v. 30c.) ; glaberrima v. giabnta, r ittom 
foliis omnibus (v. plerisqur) radicalibus spathulatis v. obowUu-spathulatis obtusis grossc cn-iim 
petiolura angustatis, scapis solitariis elongalis gracilihus crcctis basin versus >ra< i> 
centibus, capitulis nmgnis, involucri squamis htuaribus acntis maigtnc niuiibia:, 
oblongo late v. anguste alato, alis integexrimis ciliatis scrratisvc— It. lcucanthemiBMli, 
Hiigel. 60. {Giant, 1CS, 320.) 
Variat insigniter statura, 4-20 unc, rhizomate apice simplici v. bi-tricipitc, in canlcm brevissunum 
divisum desinente v. abrupte foliato ; foliis magis minusve coriaceis et crenatis, anguste v. late spathulatis. 
longe v. breve petiolatis ; scapis infra medium multibraeteatis v. nudis ; capitulis ±-l unc. latis ; acheniis latis 
angustisve, late v. anguste alatis, alis integris v. laceris ciliatis v. nudis. 
Hab. Abundant in good soil, and also in marshy places throughout the Colony, Lawrence, Gunn, etc. 
—(PL Oct., Nov.) (v. p.) 
Distrib. New South Wales and Victoria. 
A very common and variable species, easilj recognized bj it- sue, 
radical leaves, long, erect, slender scapes, leafy below tin middle and ]■ — - r( (a P ] 
with lilac or pale purple rays, and winged achenia, which are extremely rari 
6. Brachycome parvula (Hook, til.) ; glaberrima, rMzomafo 
anguste linearibus obtusis apices versus sensim dilatatis ii 
radice plurimis subcaulescentibus simplicibus basi decumbent ilms I .1 m« -up, i ■ . > nlis gra. ill »i s 
capitulis parvis purpureis, involucri squamis hneari-oblongis obtusis -F< » &*> 
acheniis junioribus anguste obcuneatis cornpressis, gUberrimis, pappo 0. i (,»,„>, I'd/ 1., 
Var. a; cjespitosa, foliis omnibus radicalibus i-pollicaribus, scapis solitariis nudis en-ctts. 
Var. /3; foliis radicalibus pollicaribus, scapis v. caulibus 1-5 basi decumbentibus fohosis demum longe 
nudis gracilibus erectis. 
Hab. Flinders' Island, Millyan.— (V\. Oct.) 
A very small species, of which I have but few specimens, and these very dissimilar m habit, and belonging to 
two varieties. Whole plain *q -mall, quite glabrous, with very narrow leaves, which are quite entrre, rather co- 
