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flat, glabrous ; flowers numerous, some few of the outer estam- 

 inate ; achenes somewhat papillular-rough ; bristlets of pappus 

 thickened and slightly denticulated at and near the upper end. 



On shrubby declivities between the Ovens-River and Mount 

 Hotham, at elevations between 3,000 and 4,000 feet. 



A slender shrub, attaining a height of ten feet, of strong rather 

 pleasant odor. Leaves to four inches long, to one inch broad. 

 Infiorescens attaining a width of five inches. Headlets about half 

 an inch broad. Expanding lamina nearly or fully as long as the 

 other portion of the inner involucral bracts. Pappus-bristlets 

 slightly exceeding the corolla. Achenes, when well matured, 

 somewhat furrowed. 



Irrespective of my noticing this plant on a line, new to me, 

 during a recent excursion of members of the Australian Associ- 

 ation for the Advancement of Science to the Australian Alps, 

 sprigs of this new shrub were then also gathered independently by 

 Mr. Ch. Frost and by Mr. Gustafsen. The species has been dedi- 

 cated to Mr. James Stirling, the Government Geologist, who not 

 only has been identified with scientific highlands-explorations in 

 Victoria for a series of years, but who also as the leader of 

 the alpine party of the association, by his energy, circumspect- 

 ness and geniality won the highest praise of all who shared in 

 this particular pleasurable exploit, so that this opportunity is 

 gladly seized on to commemorate permanently his honoured 

 name also in the vegetation of our highland-regions. 



Systematically this species is to be placed near H. ferrugineum, 

 from which this new congener differs however widely in ex- 

 tensive viscid exudation, in larger leaves still paler beneath, in 

 much larger and accordingly few headlets with more numerous 

 flowers, in involucres broader than long, in pappus-bristlets more 

 conspicuously thickened at and near the summit. As regards 

 general aspect, our new plant resembles far more some species of 

 Anaphalis, particularly the Indian A. cinnamoniea and the New 

 Zealandian A. trinervis, but the headlets of flowers are mono- 

 morphous on all the specimens examined, nor have the two last- 

 mentioned plants clavellate pappus-bristlets, leaving other diver- 

 sities out of consideration. 



Aster Frostii. 



Somewhat woody, rather dwarf, closely beset with intricate 

 stellular hairlets ; leaves from ovate- to cuneate-elliptic, almost 

 sessile, entire or imperfectly denticulated, somewhat recurved at 

 the margin, paler on the lower side than on the surface ; headlets 

 of flowers relatively large, singly terminal or occasionally two or 

 few together, conspicuously stalked ; involucral bracts in about 

 two rows, of nearly equal length, from linear- to narrow-lanceolar, 

 bearing a dense vestiture ; receptacle alveolar ; flowers in each 

 headlet very numerous, the marginal flowers with conspicuous 



