Composite.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 209 
majority are natives of the South-west quarter of the Continent. Their habit is quite that of LepforJit/nclno, though 
most of them are large plants. — Stems herbaceous, slender, ample at ton *ib. Capitulc 
in terminal peduncles, campanulas, with mam imbricate, dry, scarious. diaphau u- invohuTal scab's, the inner of 
which are stipitate, with spn ding, short la dna B I i ; I f » very numerous, yellow ; omAt 
slender, female, with an oblique, unequal mouth to the corolla: inner fivc-tooihc.1. Anthers with tv 
with capitate arms. Jche/iia not rostrate, oblong, crowned with a pappus of one row of slender, scabrid hair?. 
united at the very base. (Name from ttovs, a /oo#, and Xons, a sevrte; in allusion to the stipitate inner involucral 
1. Podolepis acuminata (Br. in Ait. Ilort, Kew. ed. 2. v. 82) ; foliis radicalibus potiolatis lan- 
ceolatis oblongo-spatlmlatisve glabris acutis acuminatisve 1-3-ncrviis caulinis sessihbus lineari-UnceoUtii 
marginibus recurvis, ramis superne araneo-tomentosis glabratisre pauci-brtcteolatia, involum squama 
exterioribus ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis subacutis obtusisve interioribus clongatis planinsvulis, acheniis 
papillosis, pappi setis scaberulis. — DC. Prodr. vi. 162. Scalia ja< 
3G2.) 
Hab. Abundant in many parts of the Colony, ascending to 4000 R 
DlSTRIB. South-eastern Australia : Victoria and X< w South Wales. 
I am doubtful whether this may not prove a variety of tb 
much blunter involucral scales. — Stems 1^—2 feel bigl ■'■' polished, looeety lit 
glabrous. Leaves very variable in size and shape | i 
gins. Capitula solitary or several i \ 
stipes, and blunt, elliptical or oblong lamina. Floirers of circ 
Gen. XXV. MHIil 
Cajntulum multiflorum, homogamum. Involucn oblongo-cylindrncci squamae 8-1'b 1-soriatsc, lincares, 
herbaceas, margine et apice submembranacea3. Receptacuhm planutn, nudum. Corolla tubulosa, 1-3-dentata. 
Styli rami obtusi, cono rainimo superati. Antler* caudal e. I 1 Km I 
superatum. Pappus l-seriatoa, acaber, coroflam anperana.— 1 
ramosa; foliis t funis; tlonboa Jtavu. 
1. Millotia tenuifolia (Cass, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1*29, p. 31 ; D 
273; DC. Prodr. vi. 161).— M. myosotidifolia, Steel:, PL 
En. Plant. IBgel. 66. {Gunn, 164.) 
Hab. Common in di 
than is usual in the B 
mata as surmounted with a minum 
whir, in all my very numerous specimens from A 
what resembles Emjbiopw.— A small, annual herb, covered 
hi-h. Stems very slender or stout, simple or branched. Lea 
naked ends of the branches, fr-f inch long. Lnvohcre obloi 
