l^ 6 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Composite . 
riaceous, and gradually slightly dilated from the base upwards. Variety a has very short stems or none, with radical 
leaves about f iuch long, and solitary scapes with no bracts or one or two very small ones. Variety £ has four or 
five scapes or stems from the root, each decumbent and leafy below, but terminating in slender, naked peduncles. 
Cannula purple, about ± inch across. Young achenia obcuneate, glabrous, without pappus.— This may be a dwarf 
state of B. graminea, Mueller, of Victoria, but is a very much smaller plant, and the leaves are quite entire in all 
my specimens. 
7. Brachycome pumila (Walp. Rep. ii. 584) ; acaulis, foliis omnibus radicalibus ovato-ellipticis 
m petiolum attenuatis grosse laciniato-serratis, serraturis 3-5 patentibus mucronulatis glanduloso-pilosis, 
capituhs in scapis foliis triplo longioribus terminalibus, acheniis non compressis clavatis scabridis pappo 
brevissimo coronatis.— An Lagenophora Billardieri? vide Walp. Rep, vi. 126. 
Hab. Tasmania {Herb. Berlin). 
I have no species answering to the above description. The species is apparently closely allied to B. parvula, 
but differs in the leaves being glandular-pilose, in the scabrid achenia, which are clavate and not compressed, and 
crowned with a short pappus. - 
§ 2. Caulescentes.— Stems elongate, ftemme, terminating in naked, one-headed peduncles. 
8. Brachycome angustifolia (A. Cunn. MSS. in DC. Prodr. v. 306) ; glaberrima, cade gracili 
ascendente flexuoso, foliis paucis angustissime lineari-lanceolatis integerrimis acutis 1-nerviis nervo valido, 
pedunculo apice pubescente, involucri squamis oblongo-linearibus obtusis v. subacutis pubescentibus, 
acheniis non alatis obovatis puberulis, pappo ? (Gunn, 266.) 
Hab. Tasmania, Gunn. 
Distrib. New South Wales, A. Cunningham. 
(iunn's specimens of this species are not advanced enough to show the characters of the achenium, and which 
appears to be wingless, obovate, pubescent, and devoid of any pappus. De Candolli: describes the pappus as very 
short, but 1 find none upon authentic specimens from Ctniningham, gathered in Goilburn Plains. As a species it 
is readily distinguished by the flexuous, slender stem, with very long, quite entire, linear-lanceolate, acute leaves, 
furnished with a rigid, prominent midrib, and slender, erect peduncles, pubescent towards the apex. The stems; 
which are erect, are probably branches arising from a slender underground rhizome ; the habit of the species is 
that of B. radio m graminea. 
9. Brachycome stricta (DC. Prodr. v. 305) ; pube brevi hirtella, caulibus decurabentibus erectisve 
strictis flexuosisve foliosis, foliis alternis lineari- v. oblongo-spathulatis in petiolum angustatis grosse dentatis 
tnfidisve, pedunculis gracilibus involucrique squamis linearibus acutis pubescentibus, acheniis late alatis.- 
Bellis aculeate, Lab. Nov. Hall. ii. 55, 206. Brachycome aculeata, Less. Synops. 192, exel. Syn. (fid. DC.) 
AuB. Sieberi? (Gunn, 66, 222, 388, 1146.) 
Hab. Abundant in rocky places throughout the Colony, Lawrence, Gunn, etc.— (Fl. Nov., Dec.) 
Distjhb. South-eastern Australia (and South-western?). 
This plant appears to agree entirely with Labillardiere's plate and with De Candolle's description, but Labil- 
lardiere states that his specimens are from Terra Van Leuwyn, which is in South-western Australia. It is very 
closely allied to B. scapi/ormis, but has decidedly leafy, branched stems, generally pubescent foliage, and often 
(.always J) white rays. It also resembles B. Sieberi, DC., but has much larger capitula.-tt™, 10-18 inches high, 
decumbent, and branched below, with ascending, leafy branches, which, as well as the leaves are covered more or 
Inl^l^^'T 6 ," Z f ."",*"* incheS l0ng ' Hnear ' s P athulat e or gradiu.ll> dilated from the petiole to the 
; coriaceous. Peduncles pubescent. (Japitula extremely variable in size, 
it, pubescent, acute. Achenia with broad, membranous "win-,. 
r less toothed or lobed, 
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