eliptrrnm.] LXV, COMPOSITE. 881 



shenes densely silky-haii-y. Pappus-bristles 15 to 20, equally plumose. — 

 ook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 215 t. 61 ; Uelichn/sum anthemoides, Sieb. in Bpreng. 

 ^st. iii. 484 ; Heliptemm punctatum, DC. Prod. vi. 216. 



Hab.: Near Mount Faraday, Mitchell; head of the Gwydir, Leichhardt. 



This plant is often abundant upon the southern downs, and cattle eat it greedily. As the 



;ules do not decompose in the stomach, the dung of such cattle is thickly speckled with white. 



2. H. polygalifolium (Polygala-leaved) , DC. Prod. vi. 216; Benth. Fl. 

 iistr. iii. 641. A glabrous annual, branching at or near the base, ascending or 

 ■ect, \ to 1ft. high. Lower leaves oblong-spathulate or linear-cuneate, the 

 pper ones linear-lanceolate and small. Flower-heads solitary. Involucre 

 smispherical, above lin. diameter including the ray, the outer short broad 

 iarious bracts tinged with brown, inner ones with a broad slightly wooUy-ciliate 

 aw and spreading petal-like lamina, often |^in. long, of a pale or bright yellow, 

 icoeptacle flat. Florets all hermaphrodite. Achenes densely silky-villous. 

 appus bristles 15 to 20, equally plumose with long fine cilia, not tufted at the 

 id.— H. diffusum, DC. Prod. vi. 216. 



Hab.: Southern downs. 



3. H. floribundum (free flowerer), DC. Prod. vi. 217 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 

 42. Stems erect and nearly simple when flowering the first year, at length 

 iffuse, much-branched and woody at the base, the branches ascending from a 

 3W inches to above 1ft. high, glabrous or loosely woolly. Leaves linear or rarely 

 near-lanceolate, acute. Flower-heads solitary on each branch, but the upper 

 ranches often numerous and paniculate. Involucre hemispherical, rather smaller 

 dan in H. anthemoides, the bracts all white and petal-like, the outer ones short 

 nd sessile, passing into the inner ones with a scarious claw and radiating 

 mceolate lamina of 3 lines or more. Eeceptacle hemispherical or conical, 

 lorets all hermaphrodite. Achenes densely silky-villous. Pappus of 7 to 10 

 igid equally plumose bristles. — H. ehionolepis, F. v. M. in Linnsea, xxv. 416. 



Hab.: Southern downs. 



Var. Stnartianum. Bather taller ; ilower-heads larger, the outer bracts assuming a straw 

 Dlour. — H. Stuartiamim, Sond. in Linnaaa, xxv. 518. Hab.: Southern downs. 



4. H. incanum (hoary), DC. Prod. vi. 215 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 643. A 

 ensely tufted perennial with ascending or erect simple stems or branches of 6in. 

 3 1ft., woolly-white as well as the foliage. Leaves crowded at the base of the 

 tems, from narrow-linear to linear-oblong, often 2 to 4ih. long, the upper ones 

 mailer and distant. Flower-heads large on leafless peduncles. Involucre 

 emispherical, spreading to IJin. diameter, the bracts all petal-like but rigid, 

 lie outer ones short and sessile, the inner with linear or subulate claws, 

 landular or wooUy-ciliate, and radiating laminae 4 to 5 lines long, of a pure 

 rhite or tinged with pink or brown or passing into a pale or bright yellow, 

 leceptacle flat. Florets numerous, all hermaphrodite. Achenes glabrous, 

 'appus of 10 to 20 equally plumose bristles. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 318; Hook. f.Fl. 

 ^asm. i. 214 ; Elichrymm incanum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2881 ; Helichrysum molle, 

 )C. Prod. vi. 194 ; Elichrysum albicans, A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 359 ; 

 lelipterum albicans, DC. Prod. vi. 215 ; H. bicolorum, DC. I.e.; Waitzia hrachy- 

 hyncha, F. v. M. in Linnsea, xxv. 407, and Hdipterum hrachyrhynchum, Sond. 

 a Linnsea, xxv. 517 (with yellow involucres). 



Hab.: Southern downs. 



5. H. Cotula (Cotula-like), DC. Prod. vi. 216 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 644. 

 L slender erect or ascending simple or branching annual, rarely exceeding 1ft. 

 nd often under 6in., flowering when only 1 or 2in., with a few loose woolly 

 airs or at length glabrous. Leaves linear, very narrow, but not long, the first 

 ften opposite. Flower-heads solitary. Involucre hemispherical, spreading to 



