TAS: Océ. 
CRASPEDIA Ricuea. 
Glaucous-leaved Craspedia. 
Nat. Ord. Compostt£.—SyNGENESIA ANQUALIS. 
Gen. Char. Capitula 5-flora, homogama, in glomerulum subrotundum bracteis 
sub quoque capitulo sitis cinctum aggregata, rachidi cylindracea lanata insidentia, 
substipitata. eceptaculum angustum, margine paleis hyalinis integris onustum. 
Corolle tubulose, late 5-dentate. Anthere basi setiferee. Stigmata inclusa. 
Achenium oblongum, villosum. Pappus 1-serialis, setis filiformibus, plumosis.— 
Herbee Australasice, perennes. Folia in parte caulis inferiore conferta, alterna, 
lanceolato-linearia, integerrima. Caulis erectus, subnudus, apice 1-cephalus. Flores 
sulphurei. De Cand. 
CrasPepia Richea; foliis lanceolato-linearibus. vel lanceolatis, radicalibus basi 
attenuatis pedicellatis, caulinis sessilibus, cauleque glomerulo solitario ter- 
minato pilosis v. glabratis. 
Craspepia Richea. Cassini, Dict. v. 2. p. 353. De Cand. Prodr. v. 6. p. 152. 
- Lehm, Pl. Preiss. v. 1. p. 443. 
Ricuea glauca. Ladill. Voy. Lapeyr.v. 1. p. 187. t. 16, e¢ Nov. Holl. v. 2. p. 123. 
Craspepia glauca. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1908. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 411. 
Craspepta pilosa. Benth. in Endl. Enum. Pl. Hugel. p. 62.n. 205. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 441. 
PoposprerMa pedunculare, Reichend. in Sieb. Coll. Nov. Holl. n. 184. 
This is one of the many remarkable genera of Composite 
peculiar to Australia. It is by no means unornamental, and 
much more worthy of cultivation than the Craspedia macro- 
cephala which we figured at our Tab. 3415. Here the large and 
globose heads are yellow instead of white. It seems to have an 
extensive geographical range, for it inhabits Van Diemen’s Land 
and South-eastern Australia, and probably extends along the 
south coast to Swan River, where it is recorded as a native in 
Preiss’s ‘Swan River Plants.’ It is a hardy annual, and we 
are indebted for seeds of it to Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich. It 
flowers in June. 
Descr. The general aspect of the herbage is that of a Gna- 
phalium, and it is clothed with soft white hairs, though said to 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1861. 
