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CHRYSOCOMA SQUAMATA. SCALY-STALKED 
GOLDYLOCKS. 
Class and Order. 
SyNGENESIA /EQUALIs. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composir. ) 
Generic Character. 
Capitulum multiflorum homogamum : flosculi tubulosi. 
Pappus pilosus, uniserialis. Achenitum erostre plano-com- 
pressum.—F ruticuli vel herbacei; foliis linearibus, sparsis, 
mntegris ; capitulis terminalibus solitariis, luteis ; involucris 
embricatis. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Curysocoma * squamata ; pubescens, ramis elongatis gra- 
cilibus, foliis lineari-oblongis acutis subtus niveo- 
tomentosis, summis squameformibus, involucri squa- 
mis acutis scariosis. 
Cnrysocoma squamata. Labill. Nov. Holl. v. 2. p. 40. t. 
184. All. Cunn. in Field’s N. S. Wales, p. 359. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 429. 
A very pretty, perennial, suffruticose plant, native of- 
Van Diemen’s Land, where it was discovered by LaBILLAR- 
piERE, (and whence seeds were sent by Ronatp Gunn, Esq., 
to the Glasgow Botanic Garden,) and about Cox’s River, 
N. S. Wales, according to Mr. Annan CUNNINGHAM. it 
flowers in the greenhouse during the month of May. 
Descr. Stem much branched from the base, where it 
appears to be shrubby, and ofa red-brown colour : branches 
downy, 
* spvcos, gold, and xoyn, hair ; from the golden heads of flowers. 
