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of the general involucre being so small, and the more inconspicuous 
because the tips are of the same yellowish-fuscous hue as the capitula. 
3. M. helichrysoides (n. sp.) : involucro generali discum subsuperante, 
squamis glaberrimis appendice majuscula lactea radiantibus; invo- 
lucris partialibus 3-floris; acheeniis hirsutulis; pappo e setis 2-3 
tenerrimis (sub lente vix denticulatis) corollam æquantibus con- 
.Stante; caule e basi decumbente seu repente erecto ramoso foliisque 
lineari-spathulatis elongatis glaberrimis. 
Swan River, Drummond.—Accords with Myriocephalus in every 
respect, except in the pappus. The petaloid general involucre is longer 
in proportion, and the disc smaller than in M. appendiculatus. 
CROSSOLEPIS, Less. ? 
1. CnossoLEPrs? brevifolia (n. sp.): foliis oblongis eum caule 1-2- 
pollicari mox glabratis, summis spathulatis vel obovatis glomerulum 
depressum lanatum laxe fulerantibus ; capitulis pedicellatis singulis 
bractea herbacea stipatis 10—15-floris.— Caulis e radice annua erec- 
tus, parce ramosus, glomerulo ratione plantæ majusculo 4—5 lin. lato 
terminatus. Folia caulina vix 2 lin. longa, ea glomerulum fulerantia 
majora, cito glabra. Capitula tomento implexo dense lanata. Invo- 
lucrum subduplex, nempe, squamis extimis, seu bracteolis, 2-4 spa- 
thulatis, herbaceis, laxis; cseteris cire. 10 imbricatis, scariosis, ob- 
longis, inappendiculatis, margine fimbriato-laceris et lanigeris, flores 
. subæquantibus. Receptaculum nudum. Flores herma iti, con- 
similes. Corollæ graciles, tubo fere filiformi apice breviter infundi- 
bulari-ampliato, limbo 5-fido. Anthere bicaudatæ. Styli rami 
apice truncati, = ne: immatura ente, glabra, 
calva. 
. 
S.W. Australia, Drummond, 1850. — This, with the two following evi- 3 
dently congeneric species, I doubtfully refer to Lessing’s genus 
lepis, of which nothing is known beyond the annexed most imperfect - - 
character, and that the author places it among his Craspedieæ, which — 
nearly correspond with De Candolle's division Angianthee.* Here 
* « CRossoLEPIS, nov. gen. Capitulum cire. 10-florum. Rachis ebracteolata, 
pus nullus.—Herba Novæ dim annua, gracillima, lana mox evanida 
estita; foliis augustissime linearibus ; foliolis involueri vix biserialibus floribus 
Mec Pc Noc leis fimbriato-laceris.— C. linifolia, n. sp. "  (Crossolepis ? 
Chrysocoryne, Endl.) k 
pusilla, Benth., belongs to a very different genus, 
