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COMrOSIT^E. 

 Senecio drymophilus. 



Perennial, erect, scarcely branched, pubescent ; leaves suc- 

 culent, oblong or obovate-spatulate, almost entire or 

 remotely toothed, flat; inferior ones tapering into a 

 petiol; superior ones clasping with a cordate base; 

 peduncles long, terminal, one- or few-headed, with dis- 

 tant bracts; scales of the cylindrical involucre 12-16, 

 acute, nearly as long as the disk; ligules wanting; 

 achenes thin, cylindrical, brown, smooth, streaked, half 

 as long as the pappus. 



In irrigated forest-valleys of Moreton Bay. Hill and 

 Mueller. 



Senecio primulifolius. 



Perennial ; stem simple, erect or ascending, at the base 

 silky-tomentose ; radical leaves crowded, blunt, cordate 

 ovate, repand, stalked ; beneath or on both sides cob- 

 webbed ; stem-leaf solitary, clasping, oblong or pandu- 

 rate, sharply toothed ; peduncles two or three, terminal, 

 with a leaflike bract, woolly; involucre broad bellshaped, 

 with 16-18 lanceolate-linear leaflets, scantily cobwebbed, 

 twice as long as its laxe bracts, and of equal length with 

 ■the disk, bearded at the apex; ligules several, conspi- 

 cuous ; achens glabrous, nearly three times shorter than 

 the pappus. 



On Mount Laperouse, south-western Tasmania. C. Stuart, 

 A. Oldfield. 



Senecio papillosus. 



Perennial; stem simple, pubescent, densely hairy at the 

 base, with a solitary flowerhead; radical leaves small, 

 crowded, spathulate-ovate, entire, gradually tapering 

 into the petiol, with slightly reflexed margin, above from 

 papills very rough, beneath imperfectly hairy ; stem- 

 leaves narrow or linear-lanceolate, sessile, scarcely 

 toothed ; involucre almost hemispherical ; leaflets 20 to 

 22 lanceolate linear, at the apex sphacelate and bearded, 

 at the back scantily hairy and papillose, as long as the 

 disk ; bracts half or nearly as long as the involucre, 

 appressed, ligules several, conspicuous ; achens glabrous, 

 of half the length of the pappus. 



On Mount Laperouse, Van Diemen's Land. C. Stuart, 

 A. Oldfield. 



