10 RECORDS OF OBSERVATIONS ON SIR WILLIAM MACGREGOR’S 
given by the elder Gaertner as far back as 1791, he including within that genus also 
the subsequent Leontopodium. It was further shown by myself (Report of the Royal 
Society of ‘lasmania, 1881, p. 44-46), that Antennaria Leontopodina of the 
North-Western Himalayas is merely a state of Leontopodium alpinum, the habit of 
that genus being repeated even within Ravulia by Helichrysum Leontopodium. It is 
equally difficult to keep Anaphalis apart from Leontopodium and thus indeed also 
from Antennaria, of which I consider it a section, although on this occasion I have 
for convenience’s sake maintained that genus; but the best proof of its intenability is 
given by the fact, that species from New Zealand, which are extremely similar to some 
of the Himalayan Ionds as well habitually as structurally, have hitherto stood in 
Guaphalium or in Helichrysum, as indicated above through comparisons with the 
Papuan congener. Helipterum corymbiflorum bears some resemblance to large- 
radiated species of Anaphalis, while a further approach to that genus is offered by the 
section Schoenia of Helichrysum and by Pteropogon of Helipterum. 
Aster Kernotit. 
(Olearia Kernotii F.v.M. MSC.) 
Somewhat shrubby; branchlets densely beset with a thin floccous brownish 
vestiture ; leaves numerous, on very short stalks, of quite firm consistence, rather 
long, from broad-linear to narrow-elliptical, closely crenulated and often along the 
margin repressed, above glabrous and rugulous, beneath bearing closely intricated 
whitish hairlets, at the apex blunt or hardly pointed; headlets of flowers small, 
mostly in terminal short panicles ; involucral bracts forming several rows, the outer 
almost semi-lanceolar, the inner narrow-lanceolar ; corollas not wholly glabrous, those 
of the marginal flowers with rather short ligular expansions; achenes narrow, some- 
what compressed, scantily beset with hairlets ; pappus-bristlets about 30, the outer 
generally thinner and somewhat shorter. 
Mount Muserave. 
Had this been tound in Australia, it would have been considered an Olearia, 
simply on phytogeographic account. It seems however preferable, to maintain the 
genus Aster in its ampler demarcation, though the abolishing or sustaining of 
Olearia as a genus remains optional. It may however here be observed, that the 
shrubby growth of Olearia proves a fallacious characteristic inasmuch as a dwarf 
form of O. ciliata is flowering and fruiting at ouly a few inches height. The reeular 
and blunt crenules of the leaves give this Papuan plant quite a remarkable aspect. 
The style of some of the central flowers remains often undivided. On the crest of 
the Owen Stanley’s Ranges occurs an allied plant with flat elliptic leaves. 
This remarkable plant is dedicated to Professor Will. Kernot, M.A., a son of 
Australia, and now President of the Society to whom this essay is submitted. 
