190 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Composites. 
tisve patentim tomentosis, capitulis parvis, involucri squainis appressis subbiseriatis late lineari-oblongis 
obtusis margine membranaceis, fl. radii brevibus, acheniis lanceolatis utrinque angustatis. — Emphysopus 
Gunnii, Nob. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 113. Solenogyne Gunnii, Muell. MSS. in Herd. Hook. {Gum, 
512.) 
Hab. Common in pastures in various parts of the Colony, Gunn, etc.— (Fl. Dec.) 
Distrib. Snowy plains on the Limestone River, Victoria, Mueller. 
Very distinct from any of the previous species, and at one time, as I thought, worthy of being kept generically 
separate, but upon reconsideration I am induced to unite it with Lagenophora ,■ Mueller places it in Solenogyne, 
from De Candolle's description of which genus however it differs in the presence of a ray ; the habit is quite that 
of Brachycome decipiens, but the whole plant is densely pubescent or tomentose, and the capitula are very much 
smalkr.— Soot of many thick, fleshy fibres. Leaves numerous, spreading horizontally from the collum, 1-3 inches 
long, narrow-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, scarcely petiolate, blunt or rounded at the apex, obscurely toothed. 
Scapes numerous, scarcely so long as the leaves, densely pubescent with spreading hairs, very stout, and sometimes 
dilated in the middle or above it, and again contracted upwards. Capitula very small, $ inch aero 8 Involucre 
broadly hemispherical, its scales in about two rows, broadly linear-oblong, blunt, with narrow, membranous 
margins. Flowers small, those of the ray with short, revolute liguloe. Achenia elliptic-lanceolate, nan-owed at 
Tribe II. Senecionide^;. 
Gen. IX. NABLONIUM, Cass. 
Capitulum multiflorum, homogamum ; floribus omnibus tubulosis 5-fidis, tubo breviusculo, lobis paten- 
tibus. Involucrum obconico-hemisphaericum ; squamis late membranaceis, 3-4-seriatis, appressis, extimis 
ovatis acutis, intimis truncatis apice laciniatis. Beceptaculum conicum, paleis magnis apice 3-5-cuspidatis 
onustum. Stgli rami elongati, truncati, dorso marginibusque papillosi. Achenium obcompressum, coria- 
ceum, late obovatum, in cornua 2 rigida spinescentia divergent productum.— Herba pusilla, scapigera ; 
rhizomate gracih, repente ; foliis ad nodos fasciculatis, erectis, petiolatis, lanceolatis, acutis, junioribus 
subtus albo-tomentosis glabrisve ; scapo breviusculo, superne bracteolato, l-cephalo ; capitulo parvo ; flori- 
bus flavis. 
1. Nablonium calyceroides (Cass, in Diet. Sc. Nat. xxxiv. 101).— Less. Syn. 259; DC. Prodr. 
vi.37. (Gunn, 1979, 2046.) (Tab. XLVIII. A.) 
Hab. Marshy ground, Minders' Island, in Bass' Straits, and mouth of the Estuary, Macquarrie Har- 
bour, Gunn.— (Fl. Dec.) 
Distrib. South coast of Australia, Bauer. 
X very remarkable little plant, the only one of its genus, very similar to a Calotis, and especially to the C. 
scapigera, Hook., but extremely different in the structure of the capitulum and flowers. De Candolle places it 
amongst JntAenUde*, with which division it has no natural affinity, besides differing from all his characters of that 
subtnbe; on the other hand, it quite agrees with the characters of his division Bidentidea> of the Subtribe Heli- 
anthea, m which it would appear to be naturally placed by habit also. 
A very small, insignificant, herbaceous plant, 1-3 inches high.-^o^ slender, creeping underground, send- 
ing up very short branches, with tufts of leaves, and a solitary scape. Leaves about 1 inch long, erect or spread- 
ing, peholate, lanceolate, acute, the young often covered below with hoary tomentum. Scape stout, erect, rather 
longer than the leaves, bracteate above, pubescent. Capitulum f inch across. Involucral scales membranous, ap- 
posed, m several series; outer ovate, acute; inner narrower, lacerated. Receptacle conical, covered with large, 
