Composites.'] 
Omnia Erechtilis, seel capitula homoguma, pleriimqtie railiata, ll«irihu> radii di-n. eonfonmbus v. hi^u- 
latis. Involucri squainse lineari-oblongse, plerumque apicibua Bp h a oel afa' a , dkod 
phroditorain apice truncatis pilosis. Ackmiwm tecettOMokuB v. sulcatum.— 1I< rba 
foliis altemis. 
One of the largest genera of plants, found in all parts of the globe, the species of which m 
tremely difficult of discrimination, not only the specific characters being liable to great variation, bui ■ 
ones also, which are drawn from the involucral scales, discoid or radiate capitula. sea 
pappus, fonn of the achenium, etc. Numbers of small groups have been proposed, but these all rim into one 
another, individual species often oscillating between wren! of them. Abort twenty Australian 
genus are known, 
unierate.l l>. in- s\<:..nvin-< and varii ti. 
niajoritv natives of the Smith-eastern quarter of the r 
■ 
lian species are far inferior to the New Zealand ones.— llcrln, l> 
divided leaves. Capitula yellow, many-tlovvered. Flowers of 
the disc; those of the disc tubular, campanulatc above, henna 
styles of the disc-flowers truncated, downy at the tip only ; 1 
smooth. Involucre broadly hemispherical or oblong, of one sci 
at the tins, as Ions as the disc and with a few much smaller 
a. Herbs, glabrous or nearly so, with simple or branc*ea, teqjy stem*, ana cvrjmuv* j> 
1 Senecio lautus (Forst. Prodr. 53S) ; glaberrimus, herbaccus, canlc breviuscuh. simplici v. ramoso 
flexuoso sulcato, foliis carnosis polymorphis omnibus v. infenonbus solum petiolatis Lmeari^blongM rp^hu- 
latisve acutis sinuato-dentatis superioribus v. saqussime omnibus line u I nmriMim 
lobulis brevibus elongatisve integerrimis v. repando-dentatis, petiolis bM rittpb feu r.« ■ nnplexicauhbus, 
corymbisoligo-(3-7)-ceplialis, involucri late campanula.! squamishneanbus acumi:. I 
sspius subsquarrosis involucratis, ligulis brevibus elongatisve ranus 0, acheniis H— 
pubescentibus.-^. N. Zeal, i. 145. S. rupicola, A. "*-« 
lentus, DC. 1. c. S. ptonatifolims, 
S. neglectus, A. Rich. Fl. X. Zeal. 258. [Gwm, 106, m. | 
Yariat insigniter, statura i-2-pedalis; cm 
berrimo v. parce tomentoso; foliis brevibus elonf 
mentis valde irregulari bus ; capitulis magnis parvisve; radn ligu is 
acheniis pubescentibus glabratisve. 
HAB. Abundant,, especially everywhere on t ' «0 (»• »•) 
Distrib. South-eastern and ft 
Authentic specimens of Forster's S. lautus, oi 
thmifolius, 
