Vittadinia.] LXV. COMPOSITE, ,811 



terminal peduncles. Involucre hemispherical, the bracts in several rows, the 

 inner ones 2.^ to 8 lines long, the outer ones gradually shorter. Ray-florets 

 narrow, elongated, spreading. Achenes narrow, much shorter than the involucre, 

 flat, with 2 or 3 prominent ribs on each face. Pappus of fine white rather 

 unequal and not very copious bristles, not so long ab the acheue. 



Hab.: Bustard Bay, Baiihx atul Solander ; K^ppel Bay, R. Brown, Thozet ; Percy Island, 

 M'GilUvmii ; Rockhampton, Dallachy ; ranges about Brisbane. 



Var. (?) latifoUa. Leaves broader, oblong, entire or toothed. Involucral scales broader and 

 fewer. — Endeavour Biver and Northumberland Islands, R. Brown (the former specimens nearly 

 glabrous, the latter very woolly); Albany Island, Cape Yoi-k, M'Gillivray ; Bockingbam Bay, 

 Dallachy; E. coast, A. Cunningham, Bowman. 



2. V. australis (southern), A. Rich.; DC. Prod. v. 280 ; Benth. Fl. Aiistr. 

 iii. 490. Herbaceous, either erect and apparently annual (flowering the first 

 year) or with diffuse or ascending stems from a woody base, rarely above 1ft. 

 high, more or less tomentose, with soft almost silky or woolly hairs, or scabrous- 

 hispid with rigid hairs arising from a tubercle. Leaves in the typical form from 

 obovate or spathulate to linear-ouneate, entire or coarsely 3-toothed or lobed, 

 narrowed into a petiole, under ^in. long when broad, sometimes above lin. when 

 narrow. Flower-heads solitary, terminal. Involucre of 2 or 8 rows of narrow 

 bracts 3 to 4 lines long, or the outer row shorter. Ray-florets narrow, about as 

 long as the pappus or rather longer, but usually revolute so as to appear much 

 shorter ; disk-florets slender, much longer than the involucre. Achenes narrow, 

 nearly as long as the involucre, tapering at the base, more or less pubescent, 

 striate with 6 to 8 fine ribs on each face. Pappus longer than the achene, of 

 copious rather unequal brownish bristles, a few outer ones much shorter. — Aster 

 Behrii, Sehlecht. Linneea, xxi. 446 ; F. v. M. Fragm. v. 87 ; Vittadinia triloba, 

 V. cuneata, and probably also V. dentata, DC. Prod, v. 281 ; FAiryhiopsis scahrida 

 and E. gracilis, Hook f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 110; E. Hookeri, F. v. M. in 

 Linnaea XXV. 458 ; Vittadinia scabra &ni V. cuneata, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i.l81, 

 182 ; V. triloba, V. cuneata, and V. scabra, A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. v. 118 ; 

 Diplopappus australasicus, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1851, i. 171. 



Hab.: Bustard Bay and Bay of Inlets, Banks and Solander ; KeppelBay, Thozet : Port Curtis, 

 M'Gillivray (the achenes in these specimens not so prominently striate but very different from 

 those of V. scabra). — Benth. 



Var. dissecta. Leaves often twice 3-lobed. — Wallangarra. 



Var. tenuiisiina. Leaves linear-subulate. Flower-heads small. — Burnett Biver, F. e. iluiller 

 (heads very young, and the identity doubtful). — Benth. 



B. V. scabra (rough), DC. Prod. v. 281 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 491. A 

 rigid herb of 1 to 2ft. with erect branches, or rarely small, somewhat woody at 

 the base and divaricately branched, scabrous-pubescent or hirsute. Leaves 

 linear-oblong or cuneate, often above lin. long, and when broad stem-clasping at 

 the base, entire or with a few coarse obtuse teeth. Flower-he^ids on peduncles 

 longer than the leaves, usually forming a terminal corymb. Involucre almost 

 hemispherical, the bracts numerous, narrow, acute or almost obtuse, the inner 

 ones scarcely 3 lines long, the outer ones shorter. Ray-florets numerous, in some 

 specimens all exceedingly narrow, almost filiform, and scarcely exceeding the 

 pappus, in others rather broader and longer ; disk-florets less numerous, at first 

 but little longer than the involucre, but the ripe pappus much exceeding it. 

 Achenes very flat, with thickened margins and no longitudinal ribs on the faces, 

 sprinkled with appressed hairs. Pappus bristles unequal, scabrous. — V. hispidula, 

 F. v. M.; A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. v. 118 ; Erigeron Vittadinia, F. v. M. 

 Fragm. v. 87. 



Hab.: ? R. Brown ; Bustard Bay and Bay of Inlets, Banks and Solander : rocky hills, Cleve- 

 land and Eodd'sBays, A. Cunninyham; Wide Bay, Leiclihardt; Gilbert Hi ver and Peak Downs, 

 /•'. 1'. Mueller; flats on the Mavanoa, Milchell; Curtis Island, Hemic; ranges about Brisbane. 



