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19* 



* ? J Win.1*, /''row uf l-ictoriuottd Sfottfft Australia 20] 



absence of disltitd Cipwurd narrowing of the achcites.'' Neither oi these 

 features, however, is of any generic significance pfr w — the writer find* 

 tlul flnrels in Williamson's plant are comparatively no shorter than in other 

 <|uite Ivpk^l members of l.ttfUcfiiytirhux, while the acholic* flj'<} scarcely less 

 narrowed than in /.. sauamntits or L. t^nuifoUus (come flelkhrysotn species 

 have achenes distinctly narrowed toward the apex). 



AdnnHcdly Oh* tjonerti. boundaries between Ixftiowhyiwhus and Httirhry- 

 sum (in their present circumscription) are often haav, as indeed they are 

 between \ht latter scans and tithflivntttn; hut, except for BOWti in the 

 snrubby. small-headed section Qzothamnus. species ©f HcUthrysu-m almost 

 invnrialily have long or short, sprvadhuj pcuifoid !inni*t<p to inn inner m* 

 vohicral bracts — brart* in Lrpt/irrhy-uchus nevei display differ enliaied 

 spreading Ittiirme. and in tnbflt species (including /-. tfatesii) they arc narrow- 

 lint«r with boldly ci bale- bnibm to marfiins. It might he I hat I. yatcsii 

 represents an isolated inier-generic hybrid between rhe*e genera, but tor the 

 present it is more satisfactorily placed under Lcf>iorrhynehus' the varying 

 uunftcr ol PAPPUS bjjltfti (:fc 20 on disk florets and ± }2 Oil marginal femate 

 florets) nko lends weight to this opinion 



C0TU1.A VULGARIS M. h\ Lcvyns |J. S. Air. Bot. 71: J.tf (Tuly J Will. 

 v 3r AUSTRALASICA /. H- WW 5l 

 varietal nova a forma typica. Capensi differ! peduncuhs niaftwfs 

 usitate a pilis nds-persis (baud mox glahHs), corollis centralibu* 

 acrnenhiquc brevioribus (corolla cifdtcr 1 mm, cf. 1.S-I-? mm. hi 

 apociminibus Cnpensihus). 



(', fiUfotia Ainu. audi. AiiKt., ji-jv TtiunK 



VAC AT 10 Forme per toium Australia t.uratropk.* disperse, praxiptic i;? 



trac.tibus humidis ar^uosU satskaue. 



HOLOTyPi'S In Herb MEL, speoimmim scries ex Victoria hanc notulam 

 comitans- — "Cotuto ftifalui Thhft. Stwamps, Shire of bimboola. 25/9/1 892. 

 Coll. F. M ( Reader" [iSOTYPI m Ad NSW, K] 



Mrs. M R. I.cv)ii< has -established <tx.) that two quite distinct, but pitch 

 co-extensive, species ui South Afncd had beer, called L'olvla fif-ifalut- Thutib. 

 Unfortunately, Tlinnber^'s type specimen (in Ujn>nla University Herbarium. 

 Sweden^ 15 too inadequate, to decide tor certain which of these two plants 

 should hear the name C. Jf/tfaffo-i but Mtft. Lcvyn* has applied ft to the 

 slightly smaller y-pecie^, dirainguished by the distinctly wntffrrf And bribtl) 

 achenes oi its disk florets. The other plant, with much larger disk florets and 

 almost 3irvcolh v. : 'i.o'tVy vlisW wch?t\e.s, she has de*erU>ed as a new M>eeie.s, 

 C". wtfgaris. 



ft reniaintd to be decided which of the two — if, indeed, either'— was con- 

 ^pecific wtU< the plwnl until now called "C ftUfoW in Australia. The writer, 

 having e.vamir.ed type material of C. uitltwris ("Levyus' Ko, 6775 from 

 Kc-uil worth Race-eOuric near Cape Town}, finds; that our Australian plant 

 combines the (tt^Jt axbene oi thai species with the smaller corolla oi 

 C, filifalui; hut h is certainly much closer to the fovmcr plant. The siiffht 

 difTcreuces in hairiness (typical u wdfitsnt lilts peduncles fttaifi gtahrott^ a: 

 ^mhesis) and <\zc oi corollas f 1.5-1-7 mm. long for C. vulgaris) art; at the 

 varietal, rather than specific, level; they support the diagnosis of a new 

 variety austrafasui), as given above 



SENECIO LJKEARJFOUUS A- ffitk fo Voy Astrolabe (Bot) l\ 129 

 H B34 ) 



S. periictfefoti A. Kicb. /,<... [V> i\M4>, 



S, cmcranoi-ics \. Kieh / c. : \2H <1K3-i», nan H, B. & K. I \B-2d) 1 



,»- tfrAArrffeKiiA DC. /-'♦.x/r, JFyri jVrtf -f, 371 Clg-^tJ), 



?. diuyroi'1.1 mils. A- Kich. (1&34). DC. (l&W) «. ttli, iiiMi WilUt 1.I8OJ), 



> 4tyadf*t f Mtwll. XfV ,5v^. W /*Mi»(p jft 339 (1388). 



