Bryomorphe.] COMPOSIT (Harv.) 277 
l.c. 259. Relhania tomentosa, Th. Cap. 640. Athrixia tomentosa, Less. 
Pterothrix tomentosa, DC. / tl. c. 280. ; 
Has. Cape, Thunberg ! Uienvalei ; also between Koussie and Pedroskloof, and 
near Kaus, in Little Namaqualand, Drege/ Kamiesberg, Namaqualand, Von Schlicht / 
Zey.! 2907. (Herb. Th. Hk., D., Sd.) 
Root thick and woody. Stems many from the crown, erect, tufted, slender, much 
branched and ramulous, the younger tomentose, older glabrous. Leaves crowded, 
linear-involute, obtuse or mucronulate, 2-3 lines long, tomentose on the hollow, 
upper surface, cobwebby, becoming glabrous without. Heads sessile at the ends of 
the twigs, solitary, or 2-3-5 in a tuft. Inv. cylindrical, its scales close-pressed, the 
outer ovate, acute, inner oblong, obtuse, all glabrous, purple-tipped, slightly visci- 
dulous. Rays very short, purple, revolute. Pappus-bristles very slender, copiously 
plumose throughout. Thunberg’s and Drege’s specimens agree in every particular. 
XC. BRYOMORPHE,* Harv. 
Heads several-fi., heterogamous, the ray-fl. few, ligulate, female; dise- 
fl. fertile, 5-toothed. Jnv.imbricate in few rows, the scales linear, sepa- 
rate, caducous. ecept.naked. Anthers tailed. Style branches truncate. 
Achene glabrous, beakless, sessile. Pappus of several, slender, scabrous 
bristles in a single row. 
A very densely tufted, many stemmed perennial, forming close, moss-like, level- 
topped cushions; branches very erect, closely imbricated with subulate leaves to the 
verysummit., Leaves linear-subulate, mucronate, on both sides closelysilvery. Heads 
solitary, terminal, sessile, half sunk among the upper leaves. Disc and ray flowers 
purple. Name from fpvor, a moss, and popn, a form; because this plant grows in 
moss-like cushions. It is allied to Amphiglossa, from which it differs in habit, and 
by the bristle-shaped, not plumose pappus. From Helichryswm and all its immediate 
allies it is broadly separated by the ligulate, not filiform, marginal flowers. 
1. B. Zeyheri (Harv. Thes. Cap. t. 151); Helichr. arctioides, Turcz.! 
Bull, d. 1. soc. imp. Mose. XXIV. II. p. 79. Klenzea lycopodioides, Sch. B. 
Has. Summits of Table, and Hott. Holl. Mountains, common, but rarely flower- 
ing, Ze 2908. Summit of Genadendahl Mt., so00f., Dr. Roser! 42. (Herb, Hk., 
Stems 2~3 inches long, branching, erect, with lateral roots, densely cushioned. 
Leaves 4-5 lines long, } line wide, erect. Heads few-flowered. Inv. scales obtuse, 
whitish or purple tipped. 
XCI. DISPARAGO, Gaertn. 
Heads 2-flowered, one fi. ligulate, either female or neuter ; the other 
5-toothed, perfect. Recept. narrow. nv. oblong, scales horny, in few 
rows linear. Achene oblong (glabrous or woolly). Pappus of 5 or many 
bristles, naked below, plumose above, often wanting in the ray-fl. DC. 
Prodr, 6, 257. 
Dwarf, much branched, heath-like shrubs. Leaves spirally inserted and twisted, 
crowded, sessile, linear or subulate, involute, within tomentose, without glabrate or 
cobwebbed. Heads in terminal, round or oblong, very dense glomerules. Corollas 
pane or white. Name from dispar, wnegual ; alluding to the two dissimilar fl. in 
the head. : 
Achenes glabrous : 5 
Ray-fl. female, with 5 pappus plumes. Leaves crowded (1) ericoides. 
* Bryomorpha, Kar. and Kir. is the same as Thylacospermum, Fenzl. 
