1841, from a collection of Swan River seeds, communicated 
the year before by Mr. Murray, Lintrose. It flowered 
abundantly in July and August, but ripened no seed. It 
has, however, been struck from cuttings by Mr. Ketty, the 
intelligent superintendant of Messrs. Dickson’s establish- 
ment. 
Descr. Annual. Stem much branched at the base ; 
branches generally subdivided at the top, glanduloso-pubes- 
cent, enlarged like an obverse, hollow cone under the capi- 
tula. Leaves scattered, lanceolato-linear, smaller upwards, 
glanduloso-pubescent on both sides, three-nerved, the mid- 
dle rib strong, the edges reflexed. Capitula solitary, ter- 
minal. Jnvolucre (an inch and a half long) conical; scales 
adpressed, imbricated; the outer ones herbaceous, ovato- 
lanceolate, acute, glanduloso-pubescent on the outside, 
woolly within; the inner ones linear, coriaceous, glabrous, 
except at the apex where they are woolly, and where some 
of them are herbaceous and lanceolate. Receptacle convex, 
tubercled, without hairs or chaff. Flowers yellow, longer 
than the involucre, and forming upon its apex a spheroidal 
head. Corolla tubular, glabrous ; tube very slender, dilated 
at the apex ; limb five-partite, spreading, segments ovate, 
blunt. Stamens included, inserted below the dilated por- 
tion of the tube; anthers with some soft, waved hairs at 
their base, and ovate, subacute, free appendages at their 
apex. Germen white, oblong, hairy, with an oblique, 
oblong pit at the base, from the centre of which is protrud- 
ed a slender but short and firm thread, by which it is attach- 
ed to the outside of the base of the corresponding conical 
tubercle on the receptacle. Style exserted, bifid; its seg- 
ments revolute. Stigmas blunt. Pappus of five scales, 
united at the base, much attenuated, nearly as long as the 
tube of the corolla, plumose. Graham. 
