Australian Plants, 



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C0MPOSIT.E. 



29. Brachycome leptocarjm. 



Annual ; leaves linear-cuneate^ as well as the branches 

 covered with articulate hair^ at the upper end cut or pinnati- 

 fid^ their teeth or segments acute; peduncles naked, filiform, 

 upwards smooth; scales of the involucre blunt^ glabrous; 

 akenia cuneate-linear, compressed, pale-brown, with naked 

 margin, on both sides hairy-scabrous; pappus conspicuous. 



In low grassland, not unfrequent in the colony of Victoria, 

 as well as in South Australia. 



Similiar to B. debilis. 



30. Brachycome ptycliocarpa. 



Annual, glabrous-scapes filiform, generally naked; leaves 

 pinnatisected, with linear acute segments; scales of the 

 involucre blunt, ciliolate; akenia very small, brown, sur- 

 rounded by a ciliolate wing, on both sides with three hairy- 

 scabrous ribs, the middle rib more prominent; pappus minute- 

 In the Buffalo Mountains. 

 Like the following a small tender herb. 



31. Bro.clitjcome nivalis. 



Perennial, herbaceous, smooth; leaves all radical, some- 

 what carnose, pinnatisected, or rarely entire, on long petioles; 

 their segments distant, linear, entire or piniuxtipartite, acute; 

 rachis linear; stems simple, much longer than the leaves, 

 naked or with a solitary bractea; scales of the involucre 

 lanceolate - oblong, with ciliatc torn margin ; receptacle 

 hemispherical ; akenia compressed, oblong - cuneate, with 

 a conspicuous pappus ; those of the disk very narrowly 

 winged; those of the ray surrounded with a broad torn mem- 

 brane, on both sides slightly convex, rough towards the summit. 



On the highest summits of the Australian Alps, in grassy 

 or peaty soil; for instance, on Mount BuUer and the Cobboras 

 mountains. 



A remarkable species, often tinged with a purple hue. 



32. Brachycome multicaulis. 



Suffruticose, somewhat scabrous; stems numerous, ascend- 

 ing, foliate, simple or a little branched, naked towards the 

 simimit; leaves nearly sessile, pinnatifid; their segments 



