226 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Composites. 
fens. Involucrum hemisphsericum ; squamis imbricatis, multiseriatis. Staminum filainenta lsevia. Ache- 
nium calvum, glabrum, dorso bi-alatum, alis inflexis, margine subcrenatis. — Herba3 acaules, scapigera; 
foliis radicalibus, petiolatis, subspathulatis, subtus albo-lanatis ; scapis 1-cephalis ; capitulis flavis. 
1. Cymbonotus Lawsonianus (Cass. Diet. xxxv. 397).— GW. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 4G2, t. 86 ; 
DC. Prodr. v. 491. C. Preissianus, Steetz, Plant. Preiss. i. 486. {Gunn, 509.) 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Island.— (El. Oct.) {v. v.) 
Disteib. South-eastern and South-western Australia. 
A very common and variable plant, easily recognized by its bright yellow heads, which, appearing early in 
spring, at a distance recalls the English Primrose to mind. Sonder has reduced the C. Preissianus to C. Lawsonianus, 
and I have also failed to find any character whereby to distinguish the Swan Eiver individuals from the Tasmanian. 
The genus is remarkable as being almost the only one of the tribe to which it belongs which inhabits Australia, 
and for being most closely allied to the Cape generr. „t. — A small, stemless herb, with nume- 
rous spreading leaves, white beneath, and heads borne on short scapes. Roots of many thick, fleshy fibres. Leaves 
3-5 inches long, spathulate, ovate, elliptical or oblong, coarsely toothed, lobed or runcinate-pinnatifid, with the 
lobes denticulate ; upper surface pubescent or glabrous ; under thickly covered with appressed white down ; petioles 
often tomentose. Scapes very short, tomentose. Heads ±-\ inch across. Involucre hemispherical, of several rows 
of tomentose scales, sometimes black at the tips. Receptacle alveolate. Flowers of ray in one series, ligulate, 
female ; of the disc tubular, five-toothed. Pappus none. Achenia with two dorsal wings. (Name from kv/a/3os, a 
hollow, and vojtos, the bark ; in allusion to the form of the achenium.) 
Tribe IV. Ligulifloe^e. 
Gen. XXXIV. MICROSERIS, Don. 
Capitulum multiflorum ; floribus omnibus hermaphroditism ligulatis. Involucrum anguste campanula- 
turn; squamis linearibus, 1-seriatis, basi bracteolatis. Receptaculum nudum, alveolatum. Achenium lineare, 
erostre, striatum, glaberrimum. Pappus 1-serialis, subpaleaceus, paleis glabcrrimis, basi dilatatis, superne 
in setam rigidam scaberulam productis. — Herbse glabra, acaules; foliis angusle-linearibus ; scapis 1- 
cepAalis ; capitulis flavis. 
Porstcri (El. N. Zeal. i. 151); foliis anguste linearibus integerrimis sinuato- 
dentatis pinnatifidisve lobis elongatis, pappi setis basi solum anguste paleaceis. — M. pygmsea, Baoul, Choix 
de Plantes de la Nouvelle Zelande, p. 45, non Hooh. et Am. Phyllopappus lanceolatus, Walpers in Lin- 
naa, xiv. 507 ; Sonder, ibid. xxv. 529. Scorzonera scapigera, Forst. Prodr. 534. Monermos Lawrencii, 
Nob. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 224. {Gunn, 506.) (Tab. LXVI.) 
Hab. Abundant in good soil in many parts of the Island, Lawrence, Gunn, etc. — (El. November.) 
(v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern and South-western Australia ; New Zealand. 
There are only two known species of this genus, the present and a very closely allied Chilian plant, which 
differs in the broader palese of the pappus. It is everywhere an extremely variable plant, sometimes being nearly 
two feet high, with leaves almost an inch broad, and varying from being perfectly entire to deeply pinnatifid. — A 
stemless herb, with milky juice, narrow, flaccid leaves, and solitary, yellow heads on slender scapes. Roots of many 
Beshy fibres, eaten by the natives of Port Phillip, etc. {Gunn). Leaves 1-6 inches long, linear, quite entire, toothed 
or piunatifid, very irregularly cut. Scapes longer or shorter than the leaves, often downy above. Heads -|-| inch 
long. Involucre narrow, campanulate, of one series of linear, erect, fleshy scales, with membranous borders, sur- 
rounded at the base by two series of much smaller, ovate, acuminate scales. Florets all ligulate, yellow, with nar- 
