Composite FLORA 01 TASMANIA. 
A remarkably di-tinet and handsome species, my Tasmania!! specim. :.-. :' which have a short an : ■ 
the very base only, whilst the Australian ones form a small undcrshrnb. - Kvcrywlu re perfectly -!.,'• 
Branches sliinimr, leafy. f.rtins about an ineli lonir. senile, aurielcd at the base, obh-i 
more or less toothed, blunt. Capitula lar^e, peduncled. solitary or two or three in a corymb, 1 inch across, with 
long, yellow rays, hivolucral scale* with broad, membranous borders. Pappux very white. mh 
glabrous, sulcate, linear, those of the ray much the longest. 
6. Senecio velleioides (A. Cunn. in DC. Prodr. vi. 37T); herbar.us. gUbammu, caule ere. to 
tereti apice ramoso, foliis obovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis subpanduriformilms aculis basi profundc bilobis 
auriculatis dentatis superioribus cordatis integcrrimis, oapitulis coryinhosis, invobcril fer. 
ligulis elongatis, acbeniis sulcatis glabris puberulisve. {Gunn, 1176.) 
Hab. Damp, shaded, alpine parts of the Colony, growing in very rich soil, as Mourn 1 
St. Clair, elev. 2-4000 feet, Lawrence, Gunn, Millifm . 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia: Victoria and New South Wales. 
A very handsome species, everywhere perfectly glabrous. Stem* erect, 1-3 f.rt high, limp 
branched, bearing a large corymb of capitula. Leaves 1-1 inches long, linear-oblon- 
tracted towards the base, which clasps the stem with two !... "PF 1 " uw * 
shorter, nearly entire. Capitula with Ion-, yellow rays. 
7. Senecio australi. (Wllld. Sp. PL ui. 
baceus, erectus, caule simplici v. ramoso, foliis angustr Inn an-Ian< ■■ 
basi dent; 
angustis floribus brevioribus. ligulis parvis, a. 
131. t. 39. S. dryadeu 
Hab. Common throughout the Colony in waste place 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia : New South Wales I 
simple or sparing 
'. 
large corymbs at the top. Leaves 2-6 inches long, narrow nnear-ianceoiaie, spreaain 
margins more or less recurved or revolute, sessile, the margins at the base rarely quite 
toothed or pinnatifid, with one or two long, narrow, patent, linear lacuna. 
\ inch long. Involucre shorter than the flowers. Ram short.-De Canci 
they are puberulous in my specimens. 
§ 3. Simple or branching herbs. Flotcen of the ray Kithout Itgua, or *>UM ver) 
s. Senecio odoratus (Homemann, Act. Hatn. n. B09)j herbaccus, 
catis, foliis oblongo-lanceoktia liiiean-obloiigiave dm 
irregulariter dentatis acuti- rogOSM ■»" g-*>nii»\c, aj 
parvis, involucre cylindraceo calyculato tlonbus breviorc, ra u= n is, a \ 
371 ; Rich. Flor. Astrol. 109; Sander in Linnaa, xxv. 525. S. otiphyUus, A. Oum 
^,Desf.Hort.Pav.\ttetm. {Gunn, 435.) 
Hab. Woolnorth, Gunn; Macquarrie Harbour, A. Cunningham.— (FL leb.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia : Victoria. 
An erect, branching, herbaceous species,, 2-3 feet high, with deeply grooved, glabrc 
