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lardia, where it is fimbrillate. The corollas of the female or neu- 
tral florets are ligulate and trimerous, usually forming a promi- 
nent ray, but sometimes small ; those of the disk-florets with five, 
or rarely four, short lobes or teeth ; all usually yellow and homo- 
chromous, or those of the disk purple, and the same colour ex- 
tending sometimes to the base of the ray. The anthers are like 
those of Helianthoides with the normal terminal appendage, the 
basal auricles obtuse or acute, but scarcely pointed ; the style- 
branches vary in different genera as much as in Helianthoidee, 
from the truncate tips of Senecio and of the Anthemidez to the 
appendiculate branches of Asteroidew or the subulate hispid 
branches of Vernoniacezs. The undivided style has been only ob- 
served in the sterile disk-florets of Blennosperma. The achenes 
ave frequently longer and narrower than in the adjoining tribes, 
angular or terete, rarely flattened or winged, but in ihe Euhele- 
nie: usually turbinate and hairy or woolly. The pappus is nor- 
mally paleaceous; the scales definite or indefinite, obtuse or 
acute, or, when numerous, occasionally attenuated into sete, 
almost like those of Senecionidez ; in some genera very short, 
rarely united in a cup, and in many genera liable to disappear 
altogether in one or more species. 
7. Anthemidee. 
Our tribe of Anthemidex is the same as De Candolle's subtribe 
of that name, after deducting two or three small genera which 
had been inadvertently placed there. It is closely connected as 
to a few genera with the subtribe Euheleniew of Helenioidez, as 
to one or two others with Senecionidex ; and the group of Cotulez 
almost pass into some of the epappose Asteroide: ; but, generally 
speaking, the involucres, the habit, the styles, and the want of any 
setose or aristiform pappus readily distinguish the tribe. 
Anthemidex are often odoriferous in their herbage; the great 
majority are herbaceous; but they also include shrubby species or 
genera; their indumentum is rather woolly, glutinous, or soft 
than coarsely hispid. Their leaves are, with very few exceptions, 
alternate, and most frequently lobed, much divided, or at least 
toothed; in a very few small genera opposite and entire. The 
involueral bracts are usually imbricate in several rows, dry or, 
the inner ones at least, scarious at the end; in several genera, 
however, of the Cotula group they are nearly equal in about two 
rows and thinly herbaceous. The capitula are most frequently 
