212 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Composites. 
Yariat — cattle gracili v. robusto foliisque molliter araneoso-tomentosis pubescentibus v. superne sca- 
berulis;/c?/msparsis subfasciculatisve, erectis patulis recurvisve, acutis acuminatis v. in apiculum elongatura 
desinentibus, anguste v. latius linearibus, basi angusta v. latiore subamplexicauli v. biauriculato. 
Var. ft. latifolium; foliis amplis lanatis. — Chrysocephalum asperum, Steetz, PL Preiss. i. 174. 
; foliis fere filiformibus. 
caule basi ramoso, foliis linearibus. 
; hispido-pilosum, vix lanatum. — Chrysocephalum asperum, var., Steetz, I. c. 
l many parts of the Island.— (El. Oct.-Dec.) (v. v.) 
astern Australia : New South Wales and Victoria, ascending the Grampians, Mueller. 
A very handsome plant, 1-3 feet high, easily recognized by its stout, rigid, seldom branched stem, bearing a 
terminal corymb of many small, golden capitula, and by its narrow-linear leaves.— Stems woolly or pubescent, rarely 
hispid. Leaves spreading or erect, solitary or fascicled, often bearing slender, short, leafy branches in their axils, 
linear, l|-3 inches long, very variable in breadth, acuminate, with usually a slender piliferous point, margins 
strongly recurved, sessile, semiamplexicaul or auricled at the base. Capitula very numerous, \ inch long, campa- 
nulate or hemispherical, on woolly pedicels. Scales of involucre numerous, closely imbricate, ciliate, acute, often 
with recurved apices j inner scales hardly radiating. Jchenia glabrous. Pappus of few, slender hairs, with cla- 
vate tips, which bear long cilia. Outer florets female, with very slender corollas. 
4. Helichrysum apiculatum (DC. Prodr. vi. 195); herbaceum, molliter dense araneoso-tomen- 
tosum, caulibus e basi ramosis ascendentibus erectisve simplicibus apice polycephalis corymbosis, foliis 
spathulato-lanceolatis acuminatis utrinque lanatis, corymbis 3 -polycephalis aureis, involucri squamis lineari- 
oblongis laxe imbricatis exterioribus glabris interioribus linearibus acuminatis stipitatis ciliatis, stipite lanato 
pubescente rarius glabrato.— Gnaphalium apiculatum, Lab. Nov. Roll. ii. 43, 188; Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 240; 
Sieb. PL Exsicc. 562 et 584. H. fiavissimum, DC. L c. {Gnnn, 112.) 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Island.— (Fl. Nov.- Jan.) {v. v.) 
Distmb. South-eastern Australia : from Port Jackson to Victoria. (Cultivated in England.) 
A handsome species, easily distinguished from IT. semipapposum (to which it is allied), by being much more 
woolly, the stems more ascending, less strict and rigid, the leaves broader, spathulate, more flat, acute, and woolly 
on both surfaces, by the much fewer, larger capitula in the corymb, and by the fewer, longer, less closely imbricate, 
involucral scales. Outer flowers female. Pappus clavellate, with long hairs at tin; tip.— I am inclined to suspect 
that the H. semipapposum, var.P fi. Gunnianum of De Candolle, belongs to this, if not, as lie himself suggests, to 
scorpioides. It is often in this, as in other genera, impossible to determine to what species individual specimens of 
many of the commonest and best marked species should be referred. 
§ 2. Capitula white or pinkish. 
5. Helichrysum papillosum (Lab. Nov. Holl. ii. 46. 1. 192) ; herbaceum, erectum, totum papilloso- 
puberulum pilosumve, caule simplici v. diviso robusto folioso, foliis linearibus lineari-lanceolatisve acuminatis 
plamusculis basi sessilibus semiamplexicaulibusve, capitulis magnis solitariis terminalibus, involucri squamis 
albis fuscescentibusve chartaceo-scariosis concavis glaberrimis lanceolatis acuminatis laxe imbricatis intimis 
stipitatis radiantibus, pappi setis scaberulis.— DC. Prodr. vi. 189. II. glabratum, DC. L c. ? H. macran- 
thum, Benth. Plant. Hiigel. 65. H. niveum, Graham in Bot. Mag. 3857 ; Steetz m Plant. Preiss. i. 471. 
Gnaphalium papillosum, Pair. Suppl. ii. 129. {Gunn, 500.) 
Hab. Gun-carriage Island, Bass' Straits, Port Arthur, and Cape Raoul, Tasman's Peninsula, Gum.— 
(Fl. Oct., Nov.) (v.v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern and South-western Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
