214 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Composites. 
Hab. Heathy and peaty ground, Mount Sorrell, Macquarrie Harbour, Gunn, MUligan. Yar. £. 
Macquarrie Harbour, MUligan — -(Fl. Dec.) 
Much the smallest species known to me, and of a different habit from any but the following, being tufted, 
4-6 inches high, and scapigerous. Learns 1-1* inch long, narrow-linear, somewhat spathulatc in var. /3, coria- 
ceous, channelled above down the centre or convex, shining, glabrous above, white below with appressed, silvery 
tomentum. Scapes woolly, slender, with a few linear bracts. Capitula A-f inch across. Scales of the involucre 
numerous, glabrous, spreading, all white or with the outer rosy, linear, blunt ; the inner very numerous, white, 
much longer than the flowers, radiating. Pappus clavellate. Flowers dark red.— Possibly a variable species, but I 
have only seen specimens from one spot.-PLATE LX.^. Fig. 1, leaf; 2, flower; 3, hair of pappus; 4, anther; 
5, arms of style -—all magnified. 
L (Hook, fil.) j scapigera, radice crassa, foliis radicalibus confertis patenti- 
bus coriaceis elliptico- v. oblongo-spathulatis acutis glaberrimis, petiolo late vaginante scapo robusto ara- 
neoso bracteato, bracteis foliaceis oblongo-lanceolatis sessilibus araneosis, capitulis magnis albis, squamis 
glaberrimis acuminatis exterioribus albis rubrisve lineari-oblongis interioribus albis radiantibus floribus 
multoties longioribus. {Gunn, 1169.) (Tab. LX.fi.) 
Hab. Summit of Mount Pearse, Surrey Hills, elev. 3000 feet, Mount Sorrell, Macquarrie Harbour, 
MUligan.— (Fl. Jan.) 
A very beautiful and most distinct species, 4-8 inches high, forming apparently single plants.— Soot perennial, 
stout. Leaves all radical, densely crowded, |-1 inch long, very coriaceous, oblong or lanceolate-spathulate, acute, 
with broad, dilated, sheathing petioles, glabrous on both surfaces. Scapes solitary, stout, curving or erect, tomen- 
tose, covered with foliaceous bracts, A_| inch long. Bracts araneose, erect. Capitulnm large, solitary, 1| inch 
across, broad. Involucral scales spreading, acuminate; the outer ovate, white or dull red, or with red margins; 
inner linear or linear-lanceolate, much longer than the flowers, white, spreading. Flowers yellow-red. Pappus 
hairs barbellate, with longer hairs towards the tips of each.-PLATE LX. B. Fig. 1, flower ; 2, hair of pappus ; 3, 
stamen; 4, arms of style : — all magnified. 
Gen. XXVII. HELIPTEMJM, DC. 
Omnia Kelichryn, sed pappus plumosus. 
This genus, separated by De Candolle from Helichrysnm on account of the hairs of the pappus being plnmose, 
and not scabnd or pilose, is hardly tenable, various species being quite intermediate between them, in so far as this 
character is concerned ; in habit and in all other respects the genus is not distinguishable from Helickrysum. The 
species are all South African and Australian ; about twenty are known in the latter country, which are almost equally 
distributed between the south-eastern and south-western quarters, none being common to both (Name by ellipsis 
from Helichrysum, combined with ™ P o S , a wing; in aUusion to the feathery pappus.) 
1. Helipterum mcanum (DC. Prodr. vi. 215) ; herbaceum, scapigerum, incano-tomentosum v. 
anatum, cauhbus basi hgnosis brevibus, foliis plerisque radicalibus anguste lanceolatis lineari-elongatis fili- 
iornubusve subacute mtegerrimis marginibns undulatis planis v. rccurvis, scapis infra medium foliatis gra- 
cilis apice nudis 1-cepbalis, capitulo magno albo, involucri squamis obtusis exterioribus rubris v. fuscis 
breviter oblong, interioribus stipitatis linearibus obtusis, stipite gracili pubescente apice lanato.-tf^. Ic. 
fl. *.318. H. bicolorum et H. albicans, DC. I. c. {Gunn, 124, 837, 108, 442, 239.) 
W.n f; ^t r '\ ! qUamlS 6XtimiS P ur P ureis * mediis fl ™dis, intimis zlbis.-DC. I.e. Helichrysum 
mcanum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t, 2881. 
Hab Northern parts of the Island, at all elevations : Circular Head; Mount Pearse, elcv. 3000 feet; 
Norfolk Plains, etc., Lawrence, Gunn.— 
(Fl. Xov., Dec.) 
