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Murray Bridge ; Sherlock ; Kangaroo Island ; Port Lincoln ; 

 Robe ; Beachport (Dist. G) . On the road between Mount 

 Gambier and Glencoe were found puzzling specimens with the 

 involucre and leaves of prenanthoides, but the panicle less open 

 and a woolly tomentum on the under-surface of the leaves. 



Olearia ramulosa, Benth. I have not found in South 

 Australia anything answering to the typical form of this 

 species, as it occurs, for instance, near Melbourne, with 6-10 

 ray-flowers, about 8 disk-flowers, and an involucre about 5 mm. 

 long. The form we have here tends toward 0. revoluta, 

 F. v. M., var. minor, Benth., and 0. floribunda, Benth., but 

 appears to have usually longer leaves and ligules than the 

 former and much longer leaves than the latter. It is a shrub 

 from 50 cm. to 1'50 m. high, with leaves usually 5-15 mm. long, 

 linear or linear-oblong ; involucre about 3 mm. long ; ray- 

 flowers 3-4, rarely 2, ligule conspicuous, 2-4 mm. long and much 

 longer than the style and its branches ; disk-flowers 3-4, rarely 

 5 or 6. Flowering more or less from October to June. 

 Greenhill Road ; Mount Lofty ; Myponga ; Slape Gully ; 

 Waterfall Gully ; Burnside ; Black Hill ; between Kingscote 

 and Cassini, K.I. ; near Port Vincent, Y.P. Usually an inland 

 shrub, but I have a specimen from an island in Pondalowie 

 Bay, Y.P. (S. A. White), a maritime form with thick leaves, 

 showing the white tomentum below and almost indistinguish- 

 able, except by the ligulate flowers, from specimens of 0. 

 axillaris, taken by the same collector on the shores of Ponda- 

 lowie Bay. Indeed, the distinction between several species 

 consists of little more than the comparative length of the 

 ligule, and as this is a variable quantity, I have little doubt 

 that further investigations throughout Australia will result 

 in 0. tub uli flora, axillaris, revoluta, exilifolia, and floribunda 

 being united with 0. ramulosa, (Labill.) Benth., as varieties 

 or forms. Diels and Pritzel (Fragm. phyt. Aust. occid.) 

 consider that several Western Australian species, including 

 axillaris, revoluta, and exilifolia, had better be united with 

 ramulosa, and they quote Mueller's remarks (Fragm., v., 65) 

 as to the variable length of the ligule. 



0. axillaris, F. v. M. Glenelg ; Henley Beach; Port 

 Vincent and Pondalowie Bay, Y.P. ; Coorong. A large, 

 spreading shrub, usually 2-3 m. high, growing among the 

 sandhills close to the sea ; the young leaves often snow-white ; 

 hairs of the achenes forked. Flowering March to May. 

 0. tubuliflora, Benth. Slape Gully; Kangarilla. An erect 

 shrub, 1-2 m. high, growing close to creek; ray-flowers 3-4, 

 rarely 5, without any ligule; disk-flowers the same number. 

 0. glandulosa, (Labill.) Benth. Myponga (Dist. A). Shrub 

 1-1*50 m. high, growing in swampy country; ray-flowers 12-20. 



