14f 
bristles, by neither a corolla upwards 
conspicuously widened nor lajyigate 
achencs. 
Seltckrysum apiculativm, Cand. prodr. VI, 195. 
Chiysocepnalum apiculatum et flavissimum, 
Sleetz in Lehmann plant. Preiss. I, 474. 
Arcoona, &c. 
Several other plants of the section Chryso- 
cephalum seem referable to this species, 
which like H. seniipapposum varies in the 
extreme. 
JEelich rysum pierochmium. 
Chrysoceplialuin pterocha3tum,Ferd. Mueller 
in Linna'a 1852, p. 416. 
Stuart’s Creek, Lake Gregory. 
Helichrystm mnifertile. 
Pteropogoii ramosissiiuus, Perd. Mueller in 
Linnaa XXV, 412. 
A^ar. xantlioglossum. Eadiating lamince of 
involucre sulphur-yellow. 
Wonnonmlla, Elizabeth Creek. 
In habit this plant resembles Hyalosperma 
vanabile. It is one of the many plants 
which vacillate between Helichrysum and 
Helipteruni, genera which might weU be 
reunited. By simphfying the niunbcr 
of genera their characteristics will not 
only be less luu'densome to the memoiy, 
but also the detenuination of the plants 
belonging to extensive families would be 
greatly facilitated, inasmuch as their 
generic^ limits can be firmer circumscribed, 
whilst, at the same time, all the advantage 
which possibly can be gained from aug- 
menting their number is by the establish- 
ment of suhgenera fully attained. 
Kelipierum cMonolepu, Ferd. Mueller 1. c. 
416. 
Arcoona, Stuart’s Creek, also on the Murray 
and the mountains between Western Port 
and Gipps Land. 
Helipfcrum incanum, Candolle prodr. VI, 215. 
H. albicans ct bicolor, Candolle 1. c. 
H. brachyrrhynchum, Sond. in Linnsea 
XXV, 517. 
Lake Gregory. 
The numerous forms of this remarkably 
variable species may be arranged in the 
following manner : — 
pi()pureo-alhu7)ij inner involucre scales 
white, outer ones purple or brown. 
Tasniauia, Maneroo, Siiowj' Eiver, Gram- 
pians, Glenelg Eiver, Bathurst, &c. 
A^ar. tricolor: Cand. 1. c., outer involucre 
scales purple, middle ones yellow, inner 
one.s white. 
Tasmania and Australia Felix. 
A'ar. alpinum: stems precumbent, more 
woody, leaves ovate or lanceolate. 
Australian Alps. 
A^ar. flavidiceps : all involucre-scales pale 
sulphur-colored. 
Snowy Fiver. 
A^ar. auricepH : Involucre scales lanceolate, 
golden-yellow. In many of the arid plains 
and mountains of Australia Felix and in* 
the northern parts of South Australia. 
Common on many of the quartz ridffes at 
our gold Helds. 
A"ar. hrachyhpis : scales of the involucre 
goldeu-yellow, short, partially cordate. 
Flinders Eanges, &c. 
\^ar. ftlifolium : stems branded, leaves nar- 
row-buear. 
Station Peak, &c. 
Over many wide tracts of the country only 
one of tliese varieties occurs ; in others, for 
instance along the Snowy Eiver, they 
grow promiscuously and their endless play 
of colors may be observed in a limited 
locality. 
Selipteriim polygalifolium, Cand. prodr. VI, 
216. 
Pteropogon platyphyllus, Ferd. MucUer in 
Linnsea 1852, 413. 
Wirrawirraloo, Wonnumulla, Elizabeth 
Creek ; also in the Murray and Darling 
desert. 
The radiating laminae of the involucre vary 
not only in size, but also in white and 
yellow^ color. If the genus Pteropogon, 
whicli I unite on this occasion with 
Helipterum, is to be retained, tlien this 
plant, as explained in the Linnaea, will 
bo sectionally distinguished. 
helMerum pygmmum. 
Pteropogon pygmaeus, Candolle prodr. VI, 
245. 
Stuart’s Creek. 
Siemssenia cMpillaris, Steetz in Lchm. plant. 
Preiss. I, 467. 
Margareth Creek, Wonnomnlla. 
Gnaphaliitm luteo-alhum, Linne spec, plantar. 
1196. 
Stuai't’s Creek, &c. Throughout the whole 
of Australia. 
Millotia temcifoUay Cassini in Annal. Scien. Xat 
1829, 31. 
Elizabeth, &c. Common in most parts of 
cxtra-tropical Australia. 
Scnecio Gregoriu F'erd. MueUer enunier. of 
Greg, plants from Cooper’s Eiver. 
Wonnomnlla. Maorty, Elizabeth Ci*eek; also 
lately found by His Eoyal Highness 
Prince Paul William of AVuerttemberg, 
on the MuiTay Eiver. An annual species, 
generally a span high, variable m size of 
leaves and flowers ; the capitulum rather 
large in proportion to the size of the plant. 
Aclienes in the AA^onnomulla specimen 
white-silky. 
Sejiecio Icndus, Forst. prodr. 538. 
Stuart’s Creek, &e. Almost everywhere in 
extra-tropical Australia. 
Senecio odoratus, Hornemann hort. Hafniens. 
II, 809.^ 
A^ar. laciniatns : 
Leaves jagged, not coriaceous, less veined, 
tapering into a cuneate base, not clasping; 
flowerheads longer than general ; bracts 
considerably elongated. 
Wirrawirraloo. 
A tall shrub. assuming endless forms; nearest 
in its affinity to S. Australis, although 
raylesa. 
Sonchus aspey'y Villars delph. Ill, 158. 
Lake Gregory, &c. 
Mioroseris Forsteriy J. Hooker Flora Xova) 
Zeelaudue I, 151. 
Maerty. 
Generally distributed over the greater por- 
tion of Australia out of the tropica, from 
the summits of the Alps, where the plant 
particularly luxuriates, to the meadows 
and deserts of the low country. 
Goodexiaceje. 
Goodenia pinatijiday Schlecht. Liiiufloa XXl, 
450. 
AVirringelbunna. Common near the Flinders 
ranges and in many other parts of South 
Australia. 
Goodenia glaucay Ferd. Mueller in Transact, 
Viet. Inst. I, 40. 
» Malu’ty, Wirrawirraloo, AA^onnomulla. 
Sccevqla apinescensy E. Bi'own, ])rodr. 586. 
S. olcoides Cand. prodr. A'^IL512. 
Indumeut, length of pedicels, shape of 
thorns, size of bracteoles, wliich tardily 
drop in all the varieties, differ con- 
siderably according to locality. 
