THE TASMANIAN FLORA. 



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6. C. FILICULA, Hook. A small tufted or creeping perennial, more or less 

 hairy. Leaves pinnately divided, the segments usually entire. Flowers about 

 f inch diameter, or rather less, on stalks usually shorter than the leaves. Bracts 

 ovate. Receptacle conical, but often more nearly convex. Outer florets with 

 conical corollas about half as long as the achene, glandular on the margin, very 

 constricted at the orifice, the style protruding. Achenes broad above, narrowed 

 below. Inner florets with normal corollas and abortive ovaries. Leptinella 

 filicula. Hook 



Mount "Wellington, Hampshire Hills, Mount Field East. Probably on most 

 mountains, but overlooked. It also occurs in Victoria and New South Wales. 

 Fl. Jan. 



9. MYRIOGTNE. 



Bracts few, nearly equal, scarious on the margin. Receptacle flat or nearly 

 so, without scales. Outer florets with very small tubular corollas, inner ones 

 with more spreading, 4-lobed corollas. Achenes not compressed, but with 3 or 

 4 prominent ribs. Pappus none. 



A genus of few species. Closely allied to Cotula, and often combined with it. 



M. MiNUTA, Less. A prostrate, much-branched, spreading plant, 2-8 inches 

 long. Leaves oblong to linear-spathulate, slightly toothed to lobed, j-f inch 

 long. Flowers, in Tasmanian specimens, '2-3 lines diameter, on short stalks, at 

 first terminal, but becoming lateral by the growth of the shoot. Bracts shorter 

 than the achenes, broad and fringed. Corollas very small. Achenes broader 

 ;above than below, often 4-sided, each angle being obtuse, and a rib down the 

 centre of each surface, a few short hairs dispersed over the surface. Inner 

 florets fertile, the corollas larger, with spreading lobes. Centipeda orbicularis, 

 Low. 



Widely spread, but not very common, preferring damp, sandy places. Found 

 throughout Australia and New Zealand. Fl. Jan. -Feb. 



10. ABROTANELLA. 



Bracts few, nearly equal. Receptacle nearly flat, without scales. Florets all 

 tubular. Achenes 4, angled or flat, but not winged. Pappus none. 



The genus is essentially of the Southern Hemisphere, and alpine or Antarctic. 



Leaves under j- inch, crowded. Flower obscure, about 



1 line long ... ... .. ••• ■■• ■■• 1- A. forsterioides. 



Leaves about I inch. Flowers green, about 2 lines 



long ... ... ... . • . • ■ • • • • • ■ 2. 4. scapigera. 



1. A. FORSTERIOIDES, Hook. A small moss-like plant, densely clustered into 

 cushion-like mounds. Leaves linear, acute, 2-3 lines long, with broad sheathing 

 bases, very numerous and overlapping. Flowers very small, terminal, on a vfery 

 short stalk, that lengthens considerably when in fruit Bracts few, broadly 

 triangular or orbicular, and not \ line long. Florets usually 3 or 4. Achene 

 hard, shining, obovate, hardly | line long, marked with 4 pale obtuse ribs. 

 Scleroleima forsterioides, H. 



Common on the summit of mountains. Fl. Nov.-Dec. 



2. A. SCAPI61EA, F. V. M. A small tufted perennial. Leaves linear- 

 spathulate, but with sheathing bases, margins recurved, mostly about 1 inch 

 long, numerous. Flowers usually 3 or 4 together, on a leafy stem. Bracts of 

 the involuci'e about 10 in number, oblong-lanceolate, nearly equal, about 3 lines 

 long. Florets about 20, corollas tubular. Achenes oblong, slightly compressed, 

 marked with 4 obtuse ribs. Trineuron scapigerum. Hook. 



Adamson Peak, Mount La Perouse, Lake St. Clair, Mount Dundas, &c. Fl. 

 Deo. 



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