FLORA OP TASMANIA.
U s ; foliis alte rn is, lin ea ri-o llo n g is, se s s ilib u s ; capitulis m aju scu lis; involucris su btu rbin atis obconicisve;
floribus jia v is .
Of tbis genus about twelve species are known, aU of tbem Australian, and tbe gi-eater number natives o f New
South Wales.— Ile ib s, witb slender, erect or ascending, leafy, simple or branched steins, terminating in bracteolate
peduncles beaiing solitary capitula. Involucral scales very numerous, imbricated in many series, white or pale
hyaline, dry and searious. Flowers numerous, all hermaphrodite. Corollas aU tubular, five-toothed. Styles bifid,
with capitate arms. Achenia with long or short beaks. Pappus of one row o f slender hairs, that are somewhat
combined at the very base, scabiid below and barbeUate above. (Name from Xítitos, slender, and pvyxo's, a beak.)
1 . Leptorhsrnchus squamatus (Le ss. Synops. 2 7 3 ) ; pilosa v . glabrata, foliis anguste lanceolatis
acuminatis marginibus recurvis subtus plus minusve albo-tomentosis pedunculis elongatis multibracteolatis,
in volu c r i squamis numerosissimis dense imbricatis apice brunneis acuminatis lon g e sparse villosis, acheniis
glaberrimis b revissime rostratis, p appi setis supra medium barbellatis.— B C . P ro d r . vi. 1 6 0 . L . Lhotzkyanus,
JPa^). in L in n a a , x iv. 3 1 7 . Chrysocoma squamata, L a b . N o v . R o ll. ii. 4 0 . t. 1 8 4 . Helichrysum dubium,
Cass. B ic t. Sc. N a t. x x . 4 5 3 e t x x v . 4 6 8 . [Gunn, 1 1 8 , 6 9 8 , 1 1 6 1 .)
H.AB. Abu n d an t th roughout the Colony.— (F l. Oc t., N o v .) (y. v.)
D i s t e i b . S ou th-easte rn Australia : Victoria and N ew South Wales.
Gmm remai'ks that this plant grows both on the moimtains and low grounds, and that the mountain specimens
are the most luxmiant.— A small herh, with many spreading, ascending, slender, why branches, a foot or
more long. Leaves spreading, 4 - 1 4 inch long, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, margins recuiwed, under surface
tomentose and white. Peduncles slender, covered with scattered, alternate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, white,
hyaline bracteoles. Capitula broadly turbinate, 4 - 1 inch broad. Involucral scales extremely numerous, aU white,
searious, and transparent, the upper with brown, acuminate tips.
2 . Leptorhynchus elongatus (DO. P rodr. vi. 1 6 0 ) ; perennis, caulibus gracilibus suberectis ramosis,
fo liis anguste linearibus inferioribus subspathulatis ceteris sessilibus subacutis hispidulis marginibus recur-
v is, involuc ri squamis exterioribus lineari-lanceolatis scariosis, interioribus anguste lineari-elongatis viridibus,
acheniis lon g e rostratis.— Sonder in L in n a a , x x v . 5 0 2 . [Gunn, 1 1 6 2 .)
H a b . N o t uncommon in various parts o f th e Colony : Hobarton, N ew Nor folk , Launc eston, e tc,,
Gunn, etc .— (F l. O c t.-D e c .) (y. y.)
D i s t e i b . S outh-eastern Australia : "Victoria and N ew Sou th YVales.
A much lai-ger plant thau L . squamatus, with a thick, perennial root, and many stout, erect, brandling stems,
1 -2 feet long. Sonder refers the Tasmanian specimens to a variety (/3. Tasmanicus), distinguished from the Australian
state of the plant by the more glabrous, branching stem, rather smaller capitula, and shorter beak to the ache-
niura ; but I find these characters to be all very variable.— Leaves almost liispid, 1 - 3 inches long, nan-ow-linear,
with blunt points and recurved margms ; lower gi-adually dilated upwards ; upper sessile. Capitida larger than in
L. squamatus, witb few involucral scales, the inner of which are much longer and more herbaceous. Achenia with
long beaks.
Gen. XXIYC P O D O L E P IS , Lab.
Capitulum multiflorum, h eterogamum; fio ribu s radii foemineis, ligu la tis v . tubuloso-difformibus; disci
tubulosis, hermaphroditis, 5-d en tatis. In vo lu c ri campanulati squamæ multiseriales, scariosæ, siccæ, in te riores
unguiculatæ. Reeeptaculum paleaceum. S t y l i rami apice capitellati. A n th e ra basi setiferæ. Aohe-
n iim oblongum. P a p p u s 1-se riatus, setis scaberulis basi in annulum coucretis.— Herbæ habitu Lepto-
rhynchi.
A rather extensive genus, wholly confined to Australia, consisting of about twenty-five speeies, of which the
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majority ai-e natives of the South-west quarter o f the Contment. Tlieir habit is quite that o f L^torhynchus, though
most of them are large plants.— Stems herbaceous, slender, simple or branched. Leaves alternate, sessile. Capitula
in terminal peduncles, campanulate, with many imbricate, dry, searious, diaphanous involucral scales, the inuer of
which are stipitate, with spreading, short iaminoe. Receptacle paleate. Flowers very numerous, yellow ; outer
slender, female, with an oblique, unequal mouth to the coroUa ; inner five-toothed. Anthers with two setæ. Styles
with capitate arms. Achema not rostrate, oblong, crowned with a pappus of one row o f slender, scabrid hairs,
united at the very base. (Name from ttow, a fo o t, and XcTriç, a scale; in aUusion to the stipitate inner involucral
scales.)
1. Podolepis acuminata (Br. in A it. Hor t. K ew. ed. 2. v. 8 2 ) ; foliis radicalibus petiolatis lan c
eolatis oblongo-spatlmlatisve glabris acutis acuminatisve 1 -3 -n e r v iis caulinis sessilibus lineari-lanceolatis
marginibus recurvis, ramis superne araneo-tomentosis glabratisve pauci-bracteolatis, involucri squamis
exterioribus ovato- v . oblongo-lanceolatis subacutis obtusisve interioribus elongatis planiusculis, acheniis
papillosis, pappi setis scaberulis.— B C . P ro d r . vi. 1 6 2 . Scalia jaceoides, B o t. M a g . 9 5 6 . [Gunn, 1 1 0 ,
3 6 2 .)
H ab. Abundant in many parts o f th e Colony, ascending to 4 0 0 0 feet, Gunn.— (F l. N o v .)
D i s t r i b . South-eastern Australia : Victoria and N ew South YVales.
I am doubtful whether this may not prove a variety o f the trae P . acuminata, from which it differs only in the
much blunter involucral scales.— Stems 1 4 - 2 feet high, stout, rigid, smooth and polished, loosely araneose above or
glabrous. Leaves vei-y variable in size and shape ; radical often petiolate, flat and three-neiwed, acuminate, perfectly
glabrous or with puhescent margins ; cauline sessüe, ahnost decui-rent, linear, 1 -4 inches long, with recurved margins.
Capitula solitai-y or several together, 1 -2 incbes hroad. Peduncles bracteate and woolly. Scales o f the involucre
flat or coneqye, not transversely rugose ; outer ovate or obovate, blunt ; inner with a straight, linear, rigid
stipes, and blunt, elliptical or oblong lamina. Flowei-s o f circumference with a large, trifid ray.
Gen. X X V . M IL L O T IA , Cass.
Capitulum multiflorum, homogamum. In vo lu c ri oblongo-cylindracei squamæ 8 - 1 0 , 1-seriatæ, lineares,
herbaceæ, margine e t apice submembranaceæ. Reeeptaculum planum, nudum. Corolla tubulosa, 4 -5 -d en ta ta .
S ty li rami obtusi, cono minimo superati. A n th e ra caudatæ. Achenium lineare, compressum, rostro ten u i
superatum. P a p p v e 1-seriatus, scaber, corollam superans.— Herba g r a c ilu , p u s illa , cano-tomentosa, annua,
ramosa ; foliis a lte rn is, angustis, intege rrimis ; capitulis terminalibus, s o lita r iis ; floribus fia v is .
1. Millotia tenuifolia (Cass, in An n . Sc. N a t. 1 8 2 9 , p. 31 ; D ie t. Sc. N a t. Ix. 5 9 2 ; Less. Synops.
2 7 3 ; DC . Prodr. vi. 1 6 1 ) .— M. myosotidifolia, Ste etz, P I . P r e iss. i. 4 5 7 . Seuecio myosotidifolius, Benih.
E n . P la n t. H iige l. 6 6 . {Gunn, 1 6 4 .)
H a b . Common in d ry , stony places, Gunn, etc .— (F l. O ct., Xtev.) («. v.)
D i s t r ib . Victoria, South Australia, K in g George’s Sound, and Swan River.
A very curious little plant, which liardly'appears to me to belong to the tribe in which it is placed, though I
am not able to place it better. I t lias much the liabit o f some Asteroid genera ; both the pappus is more rigid
than is usual in the Helichi-ysea, and tlie styles are not very typically Senecioid. De Candolle describes the stigmata
as surmounted with a miuute cone, which I do not observe, and the pappus as being red, which however is
white in all my very numerous specimens from Australia and Tasmania. In liabit and general appearance it somewhat
resembles Fuiyhiopsis.—A small, annual herb, covered with loose, wliite, w'ooUy tomentum, from 1 - 6 inches
high. Stems very slender or stout, simple or branched. Leaves few, slender, alternate. Capitula terminal on the
naked ends of the branches, 4—| iuch long. Involucre oblong, its scales few, in one series, linear-acuminate, to-
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