198 FLORA OF TASMANIA. {Composites. 
foliis raclicalibus obovato-lanceolatis pilosis glaberrimisve, caulinis sessilibus basi ssepius dilatatis. — A C. 
Rickea non differt nisi caule elatiore et capitulis 8-13-floris. — Bonder in Linnaa, xxv. 493. (Gunn, 507.) 
Var. a ; foliis angustioribus. 
Var. /9 j scapo folioso, foliis latioribus superioribus sessilibus basi subauriculatis. 
Hab. Common in wet pastures, etc. ; in ponds of water at Georgetown, Lawrence, Gunn. — (El. Oct.) 
(v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. 
I can detect no characters whereby to distinguish this species but the very much greater size, and the ciliated 
and anricled bases of the cauline leaves of some states. — It grows 3 feet high, is very stout, with leaves 4-8 inches 
long, broad and strongly nerved, or narrow, pilose or quite glabrous. Glomerules of capitula 1-2 inches in diameter. 
—I suspect that a good series of specimens would unite this with C. Richea. 
8. Craspedia alpina (Back. MSS. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 119) ; tota tomento niveo laxe v. ap- 
presso dense obtecta, caule erecto robusto, foliis radicalibus lineari-lanceolatis utrinque niveis, involucri 
squamis late ovatis medio lanatis marginibus late membranaceis. {Gunn, 835.) 
Hab. Abundant upon Mount Wellington and all other mountains, Lawrence, etc. — (El. Eeb.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. Mount Buller, Victoria, elev. 5000 feet, Mueller. 
A very handsome species, easily distinguished by the clear white tomentum on every part of the Tasmanian 
specimens, but which is rare or absent on the upper surface of the leaves of the Victoria specimens. Size and 
habit of C. Richea, but more robust, with larger glomeruli of capitula. 
Gen. XVI. SKIRRHOPHORUS, DC. 
Capitula uni-bi-flora, homogama, in glomerulum capituliforme involucro generali cinctum dense aggre- 
gata. Involucri generalis folia biseriata, imbricata, linearia, acuminata, insequalia, exteriora foliacea, in- 
teriora scariosa. Involucrum capituli 4-5-phyllum; squamis oblongis, scariosis, hyalinis. Corolla tubulosa, 
4-5-dentata. Stamina 4-5 ; filamentis brevibus ; antheris connatis, breviter basi biaristatis. Styli rami 
subelongati, truncati. Achenia obovoidea, papillosa, truncata, calva. — Herbre pusillce, annua v. snfruti- 
culosa? ; foliis parvis, oppositis alU . glomerulis extus lanatis, rarius glabris. 
1. Skirrhophorus eriocephalus (Hook. fil. MSS., Gray in Journ. Bot. iii. 148) ; foliis paucis 
acuminatis, involucri generalis foliis lineari-subulatis acuminatis, capitulis paucioribus. — S. Fuernrohrii, 
Mueller, MSS. ( Gunn, 1973.) (Tab. LIU A.) 
Hab. Amongst Salicomia and other herbage close to high-water mark, near Georgetown, Gunn. — 
(El. Nov.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia : Brighton, Mueller ; Melbourne, Adamson. 
A very singular little plant, 1-2 inches high, much resembling a large Moss in habit, the brown, erect, filiform 
stems growing close together, like the fruit-stalks of Polgtricha, and the glomeruli resembling the capsules. I had 
originally referred tins plant to Skirrhophorus, in which Asa Gray agrees, as Mueller has since, though the original 
species of that genus is suffrutescent, with a totally different habit. Asa Gray (Journ. Bot. iii. 148, 1851), in a 
review of the Angiantheee, refers this and the closely allied S. Preissianus to the same genus. Placing it in a sepa- 
rate section, he enumerates six species of the genus, all but the present natives of South-western Australia. The 
glomeruli of this plant are surrounded with coriaceous, linear, not hyaline bracts ; the corolla is four-toothed, and the 
teeth short and not reflexed ; there is no thickening at the base of the corolla, and the leaves are generally oppo- 
site.— Stem solitary or numerous from the root, glabrous. Leaves few, linear-subulate, acuminate, radical, spread- 
ing, | inch long. Glomeruli \ inch long, obovate-oblong, surrounded by woolly, linear, bracteal leaves. Capitula 
densely crowded on a nearly plane papillose receptacle, very minute, two-flowered. Involucral scales four to six, 
