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Composit. 
29. Brachycome leptocarpa. 
Annual; leaves linear-cuneate, as well as the branches 
covered with articulate hair, at the upper end cut or pinnati- 
fid, their teeth or segments acute; peduncles naked, filiform, 
upwards smooth; scales of the involucre blunt, glabrous; 
akenia cuneate-linear, compressed, pale-brown, with naked 
margin, on both sides hairy-scabrous; pappus conspicuous. 
In low grassland, not unfrequent in the colony of Victoria, 
as well as in South Australia. 
Similiar to B. debilis. 
30. Brachycome ptychocarpa. 
Annual, glabrous-scapes filiform, generally naked; leaves 
pinnatisected, with linear acute segments; scales of the 
involucre blunt, ciliolate; akenia very small, brown, sur- 
rounded by a ciliolate wing, on both sides with three hairy- 
scabrous ribs, the middle rib more prominent; pappus minute. 
In the Buffalo Mountains. 
Like the following a small tender herb. 
31. Brachycome nivalis. 
Perennial, herbaceous, smooth; leaves all radical, some- 
what carnose, pinnatisected, or rarely entire, on long petioles; 
their segments distant, linear, entire or pinnatipartite, acute; 
rachis linear; stems simple, much longer thun the leaves, 
naked or with a solitary bractea; scales of the involucre 
lanceolate - oblong, with ciliate torn margin; receptacle 
hemispherical; akenia compressed, oblong- cuneate, with 
a conspicuous pappus; those of the disk very narrowly 
winged; those of the ray surrounded with a broad torn mem- 
brane, on both sides shghtly convex, rough towards the summit. 
On the highest summits of the Australian Alps, in grassy 
or peaty soil; for instance, on Mount Buller and the Cobboras 
mountains. 
A remarkable species, often tinged with a purple hue. 
32. Brachycome multicaulis. 
Suffruticose, somewhat scabrous; stems numerous, ascend- 
ing, foliate, simple or a little branched, naked towards the 
summit; leaves nearly sessile, pinnatifid; their segments 
