Composite.] flora of Tasmania. 
very readily be confounded. About thirty species of Omtkmm m m known, of which three inl 
and all the rest are Australian; almost all are confined to the south-east putt and 'Fa-mania. 
which I have divided the Tasnianian species are by no means natural, but are the most definite 
to construct. (Name from o£a>, to scent, and &i/avos, a bmh ; from the smell of some of the resi 
§ 1. Cap i mall. 
1. Ozothamnus Hookeri (Sonder in Linnsea, xxv. 509) ; fruticulus robustus, 
virgatis albo-tomentosis, foliis minimis triangulari-ovatis subtrigonis imbricatis, ramulis arete apprcssis 
dorso medio linea alba marginibus (fere ad costam) reflexis glutinosis, eapiiulis pama ad apices ramulonun 
sessilibus capitatim congestis sub-6-floris, involucri squamis interioribus albis radiantibus.— 0. lepidophyllus, 
Nob. in Bond. Journ. Bot. vi. 120; non Steetz in Plant. Preiss. Baccharis? lepidophylla, DC. Prodr. v. 
427. (Gunn, 123.) (Tab. LV. B.) 
Hab. Abundant on the mountains throughout the Colony, at elevations of 8-5000 feet, / 
-(EL Jan.) (,. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia: Cobboras Mountain, (lev. 5000 feet, Mueller. 
capitula, with white, radiating tips to the nwolucral scales.— 1'i.ATh L\ . />'. I'ig. 1 and 2. lea\es : 3, eapitulnm ; 
4, flower; 5, stamen; 6, arms of style: — all magnified* 
2. Ozothamnus lycopodioides (Hook. 61. in Lond. Bot. vi. ll'd); frnticuloi virg.it us, glabern- 
mus, viscosus, ramis tuberculatis, foliis lineari-oblongis ohtusis laxe imbricatis creel is enerviis margine mi- 
nutissime cartilagineo-serrulatis, capitulis inultitlons ad apices v. in axillis rainuh.rum e<in_< -■ 
floribus extimis foemineis, involucri squamis non radiantibus apicibus 
araneosis, acheniis papulosis pilosisque, pappo clavdlato. [Qmrnm, 1976.) (Tab. l.\ 1 1. ./. 
Hab. Sugar-loaf, Great Swan Port, Backhouse; Apsley Kiver, near the same locality, O.l 
A very remarkable species, perfectly glabrous, a foot or so high, with erect, slender, twiggy, tnbercled branches, 
the upper covered with imbricating, oblong, blunt, very coriaceous, riscou haves, \ inch long. — Capitula ten to 
twelve, forming terminal In ad- rank axillan in th< branches Iuro ral scales fuscous at the tips or purplish, 
not radiating nor wliite, slightly woolly on the back and viscid; outer flower- ft-male. i'v/ -^ thickened upwards. 
Ackem* papillose and hairy.— Plate LVII. A. Fig. 1, leaf; 2, capitulum ; 3, flower of circumference ; 4. pappus ; 
5, flower of disc ; 6, stamen ; 7, arms of style :— aU 
3. Ozothamnus selaginoides (Sonder and Mueller in garnet, ixt. 511 1; fruticulus mmosos, glaber- 
rimus, ramis decumbentibus tuberculatis, ramulis erectis foliosis, foliis minimis lineari-oblongis patenti-rc- 
curvis obtusis marginibus recurvis costa subtus prominula, capitulis parvu ad tpicea ramolor i 
sessilibus sub-8-floris, involucri squamis exterioribus inbpubeaceotibus chartaceis, intenonbui 
bus albis breviter radiantibus, achenio pubescente. LYI.B. 
Hab. Table Mountain, west of Oatland, eh r. 8000 1 t, £ 
A most distinct little species, as indeed are all 
to a foot high, with much-branched, tubercled stem.— BrmeUeU leafy. Leave* small, | in. sa long, 
curved sessile or with a short adnate petiole, coriaceous, linear-oblong, blunt. Capitmla -mall, -ix to | 
sessile 'at the ends of the branchlets, ten- to twelve-flowered, with small, white, radiating points to the inner mvo- 
lucral scales. Aclienia pubescent.-PLATE LVI. B. Fig. 1, leaf; 2, capitulum; 3, flower; 4, pappus; 5, stamen; 
6, arms of style -.—all magnified. 
