Composites] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 211 
I must leave it to the Colonial Botanist to determine if there he more than one species included lure under 
the name of H. bracteatum. I have most care fully examined a multitude of dried specimens from all parts of 
Australia, in the vain attempt of finding any characters whereby they ma\ he distinguished; and if, as IV Candolle 
affirms, this species has sometimes white' capitula, 1 fear that a good many other spurious species will have to fall 
into it. There is no difficulty whatever in selecting several extremely different forms u( this species, and if the 
characters used by De Candolle to distinguish If. <irin,ti>iuti<i,i and //. Ihniksii were constant, they would perhaps 
indicate the most prominently different forms; hut I do not find that Mr. (iunn pa\s any attention to the fact that 
specimens with acuminate outer scales occur in the same gathering with others in which these are almost hlnut. and 
that those with woolly stems are mixed with others with glabrous ones : further, every inti nnediate hum in habit, 
size, shape, etc., of the leaves and involueral scale-, may be found uniting the most dissimilar individuals. It appears 
certain however that marked forms do prevail over large tracts of ground, and tha 
forms grow together, still retaining their differences with more or less constancy, : 
species to the attention of local observers. — A rigid, herbaceous species, with creel 
inches to 3 feet high. Stems glabrous or hispid, sometimes tomentose or woolly i 
bracteate peduncles bearing large, deep yellow capitula, \-'i\ inches broad. Leave 
amplexicaul or cordate at the base, of all forms |'n>m rerj narrow -linear to spathulate- 
both sides or hispid above, mar-ins recurved, rather wavy. (' 
of the ray slender, female. 
2. Helichrysum scorpioides (Lab. Nov. Roll. ii. 15. t. I. 
lanuginosum, ramis scapisve monooephalis, foliu ingnste Inn iri ms I m ■■ . \\\- - 
angustioribus acuminatis et longc apieulatis glabmtis subl n\\m« rerun is 
capitulis ebracteatis aureis, involucri sipiamis extedoribus oblmigis , d»t u-i>, int< 
lanceolatis basi sublanatis, achenn* trl iht inini Dt P* ' ti L91. (Jnaphalium scorpioulcs, Voir 
Suppl. ii. 129. II. buphthalmoides, Sieb. PL Buiec 888. II. Ghin Pint. t. 820 
{Gunn, 116, 502, 1171.) 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Island, especially in moist places, ascending to V 
Oct.-Dec.) {v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern and Southern Australia, from Adelaide to Port Jackson. 
A slender, herbaceous, generally graceful species, more or 
Stems many or few from the root, ascending, unbranch. d above or forming 
linear-lanceolate or subspathulate, soft and lanate or glabra 
but with short. Mibulut. Bcalei Oapitm | 1 
involucre linear-oblong, numerous. - - "''• otu ' u TviUh ~" : »"" 
stipes lanate. Hairs of the pappus scabrid.— Dr. Mueller sends a W 
capitula. 
3. Helichrysum semipapposum (DC. Prodr. vi. 195) ; bnatum v. pubeeoens, m dam, 
rigido apice corymboso, foliis anguste lineari-elongatM a cnminatH , 
subtus v. utrinque tomentosis rarius glabratis, corymbi poljcephati I 
panulatis v. hemisptuericis basi lauatis, squamis scariosis aureis mime; ifl vi\ radian- 
tibus acutis omnibus ciliatis apicibus recti? recurvisve.— Gnaphalium wmipappw 
t. 187 ; Sieb. PL Exsicc. 335. Chrysocephalum helichrvsoidcs, Wa 
naa, xxv. 516. {Gunn, 113, 504, 246, 1173.) 
