Co?)?posita.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales. (Cultivated in Kngland.) 
A very beautiful plant, a foot or so high, often forming largo, tufted masses, covered densely with soft, 
tomentum. — Stems woody at the very base, branching, divided close above the root into ninny ascending or 
tufted, short branches, which are densely leafy below, and suddenly terminate in deodar aoapas, Inuring I km 
leaves, and one large, white capitulum. Leaves 2-5 inches long, numerous, erect, softly tomentose, n 
or almost thread-like, with flat or revolute, sometimes crisped margins. OapiMa \-2 inches bra I 
involucre blunt; outer oblong, brown or purple-red; inner stipitate, with Ion-, radiating, DBaU 
glabrous. Pappus feathery, the setse terminating in a thickened apex.— Luxuriant sjteeiinens have more lcafv stcii 
not resembling scapes. Mueller sends an alpine variety from the Alps of South \ . 
soft, snow-white tomentum, and having lcafv scapes, and oblong-spathulatc slmrt 1, - 
iiie' represents the interior scales of the involucre as yellow, but they are white m all 
2. Helipterum anthemoides (DC. Prodr. vi. 216) ; glaberrimum, ramis ratnulisqiie virgati* l'<>lial 
foliis sparsis sessilibus brevibus linearibus obtusis acutisve grosse glanduloso-punctatis basi in appendic. 
albam ramo adnatam productis, capitulis solitariis terininalibus nudis, involucro bast linn;-; 
exterioribus brevibus obtusis subhyalinis, interioribus longe radiatis subacutis, achenio den? 
pilis dense phimosis basi plania subpaleaceis.— Helichrysuin anthem 
Si/st. Teg. iii. 484. H. punctatum, DC. I. c. (Gunn, 239.) (Tab. LXL 
Hab. Formosa, Western Mountains, Launceston, etc., asrendin 
Nov., Dec.) 
Distrib. New South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria. 
A very distinct species, and. I think, almost gcncrically separable on at 
which are few and broad, and flattened below: the aehenium too i: 
hemispherical at the base, and there covered with s,, : .-. Hyaline scales, i can una no umerenrc ,„■„„,-,. .a- 
CandoWs punctatum and anthemoides; the dotted leaves wee apparently overlooked in the description of the 
latter by that author.— .Boo/ vvoodv. sending up very numerous, shnder, twiggy, simple (or sometimes branched and 
bushy) stems, 1-2 feet high, perfectly glabrous everywhere. Lews scattered, small, narrow-linear, rarely linear- 
lanceolate acute, punctate (rarelv not so), attached by a broad, adnate base to the branch, the upper becoming 
scarious at the tips, and passing into scarious bracts below the capitulum, the peduncle of which is sometime* 
slightly tomentose (in Australian specimens). Capitula solitary, about 1 inch broad, glabrous, the lower outer 
scales fuscous or yellow-brown; the inner long, white, and radiating.— Plate LXL Fig. 1, leaf; '2, v. 
of pappus; 4, corolla; 5, stamen; 6, arm of style:— aU magnified. 
Gen. XXVIII. GNAPIIALU M, I. 
Capitulum multifiorum; floribus omnibus gracilibus, tubulosis; radii plunscnahbus tent;:-- 
neis; disci hermaphroditis. Involved ovati v. hemispliEerici squama imbricata:, appress* v. patulic, ,ub- 
hyalina., discum a3qnantes. Becep t acu ? >o,, V hmnn, muhun. A**** baa triacte. 4* 
uscula, sspe papillosa. Pappus 1-serialis, setis tenmaannw 
attends, sessilibus; capitulis in glomeruli corpnbeme dispose! ',s, ratcrdum amBarOtU tfnea , p 
squamis pallidis, fiavis subpurpureisve. 
Alarce -enus, scattered over the whole world, not easily distinguished from IhUchrysum by any technical 
clnn ; te ;./ but vm unlike that genus in the form of the capitulum and general appearance. About ten Australian 
species are known, of which several are also New Zealand plants, and one or two are found over all the world ; none 
are peculiar to South-western Australia.-ff^s, with simple or branched stems, and alternate leaves, always more 
woolly. Capitula axillary or corymbose or spicate or fascicled or capitate, generally narrow 
