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on the Darling-River, by Wheeler near Stokes-E.ange and Cooper's 

 Creek, by Burkitt on the Lachlan-River and by Oldfield on the 

 Murchison-River. 



Leptinella Featheestonii. 

 Cotula Featlierstonii, F. M. coll. 



Stems branched, short-downy, not creeping ; leaves dbovate- or 

 ohlong-cuneate, with exception of the three-toothed summit enti/re, 

 tapering into a sessile base, invested with subtle downs ; peduncles 

 axillary and terminal, less than thrice as long as the capitula, densely 

 short-downy ; eapitula with numerous female and very many bi- 

 sexual flowers ; scales of the involucre 10-12, nearly biseriate, un- 

 equal, almost semilanceolate, thinly downy outside ; receptacle de- 

 pressed, hemispherical ; female flowers pedicellate ; their corolla 

 minute, pale, glandless, nearly conical, about half as long as their 

 achenium ; corolla of bisexual flowers four-toothed, glandless ; their 

 anthers exserted ; fertile achenia obovate-cylindrical, streaked, slightly 

 glandulous. 



On damp rocks near the sea in one locality on the south-east 

 side of Chatham-Island. 



A singular plant, according to Mr. Travers of luxuriant growth, 

 entirely dissimilar in habit to all other LeptineUae, and in general 

 appearance more resembling the species of Myriogyne. Two pieces 

 of a ramified stem or its branches, sent by Mr. Travers, seem suf- 

 ficiently to indicate a robust erect or at least not radicant growth of 

 this species. Branches stout, grey from short soft somewhat appressed 

 hair. Leaves alternate, flat, |-lf" long, towards the summit ^-^" 

 broad, at the blunt apex by generally two extremely short incisions 

 three-toothed, occasionally almost toothless, tapering into a some- 

 what petiolar base, of equal color on both sides and also clothed on 

 both pages with subtle downs, finely three-nerved, reticulated by 

 immersed hardly perceptible ' veins, ciliate by dense but extremely 

 short downs. Peduncles monocephalous, 1" or less long. Scales of 

 involucre f-2'" long, outside short-downy. Capitula depressed- 

 globular, about 4'" broad, of strong but not unpleasant odor. Fe- 

 male flowers numerous, peripherical in many rows ; corollae g-^"' 

 long, broadly oblique-conical, glabrous, indistinctly toothed at the 

 contracted apex ; style enclosed or its apex exserted, lobes of the 

 stigma exceedingly short ; achenia streaked by several prominent 

 lines, not compressed, hardly longer than half a line, brown-grey ; 

 their pedicel half or less than half as long as the achenium, the 



