Brachycome.) LXV. COMtOSIt^E. 797 



others oblong-lanceolate or linear, mostly acute and quite entire, the upper ones 

 few, small and distant. Peduncles long, somewhat corymbose. Involucral 

 bracts narrow, almost acute. Achenes narrow, at first flat with thickened 

 margins, at length thick, tuberculate, not winged. Pappus very minute. 



Hab.: ? Bowman; basaltic plains from Peak Range to Darling Downs, F. v. Mueller. 

 Var. gracilis. More slender, 1 to 2tt. high. Leaves all lineiir or linear-lanoeolate. Hab.: 

 Eookhampton and Keppel Bay, Thozet. 



9. B. trachycarpa (rough achenes), F. v. M. in Linnma, xxv. 339 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Aitstr. iii. 515. A glabrous perennial, erect and corymbosely branched the 

 first year, afterwards with numerous nearly simple or divaricately branched, 

 slender but rigid stems from a more or less woody base. Leaves linear, the lowest 

 often rather broad, entire, or pinnately lobed, the stem-leaves mostly narrow and 

 entire. Flower-heads small. Involucral bracts cuneate-oblong, rather broadly 

 scarious at the end. Ray short, lilac. Achenes narrow, with thickened margins, 

 the sides more or less tuberculate, and sometimes hirsute with short hooked hairs. 

 Pappus minute or almost none. 



Hab.: Broadsound, R. Brown; Keppel Bay, Thozet. 



10. B. decipiens (deceiving), Hook.f. in Hook. Land. Journ. vi. 114 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. iii. 516, and Fl. Tasm. i. 184 t. 48. An almost stemless perennial, 

 usually glabrous, with precisely the aspect but not the involucre of the European 

 Daisy fBellis perennis). Stock short and tufted. Leaves radical, obovate-oblong, 

 entire or remotely and shortly toothed or crenate, narrowed into a short broad 

 petiole, 1 to Sin. long. Scapes longer than the leaves, simple and leafless, or 

 with a single small leaf. Heads rather large, the scarious margins of the in- 

 volucral bracts usually but not always dark-coloured. Achenes very flat with a 

 thickened margin, sprinkled with a few short hairs. Pappus very short. 



Hab.: Southern downs country. 



11. B. scapiformis (scape formed), DC. Prod. v. 306 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iii. 517. A perennial with a tufted or slightly creeping stock, glabrous or nearly 

 so. Radical leaves obovate or oblong-ouneate, coarsely toothed towards the end 

 or rarely nearly entire, narrowed into a petiole, of a thicker consistence than in 

 B. decipiens. Flowering-stems 6in. to l^ft. high, sometimes reduced to almost 

 leafless scapes, more frequently leafy below the middle, simple or rarely with a 

 single accessory branch, the leaves smaller and narrower than the radical ones. 

 Flower-heads rather large. Involucral bracts narrow and acute. Achenes flat, 

 the acute edges more or less expanded into a ' wing. Pappus conspicuous, of 

 short bristles almost dilated into scales. — Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 185. 



Hab.: Southern downs country. 



12. B. ciliaris (achenes ciliate or eyelashed), Less. Syn. Camp. 172 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. iii. 518. Glabrous or more or less clothed, especially when young, 

 with a white wool, probably always perennial, but often flowering the first year 

 so as to appear annual ; stems erect, slender, under 1ft. high, somewhat corym- 

 bosely branched. Leaves pinnate, with narrow-linear usually very divaricate 

 segments. Flower-heads rather small. Involucral scales very variable in 

 breadth. Achenes of the disk flattened, bordered by a broad entire denticulate 

 or ciliate wing, the faces smooth or tuberculate, those of the ray often more 

 tuberculate and without any wing. Pappus usually conspicuous. — DC. Prod. v. 

 306 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 187 ; Bellis ciliaris, Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. ii. 56 t. 

 209 ; Brachycome Drmnmondii, Walp. Rep. ii. 584 ; Steetz in PI. Preiss. i. 428. 



Hab.: Southern downs country. 



18. B. marginata (margined achenes), Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 60 ; and Fl. 

 Aiistr. iii. 519. A perennial with slender branching glabrous stems, almost 

 woody at the base. Leaves linear or linear-oblong, acute, entire or rarely with 1 



