176 CHARACTERS OF SOME GNAPHALIOID COMPOSITÆ. 
should likewise refer these plants, although the glomerule and the sub- 
tending leaves are so lax, and the capitula so pedicellate from the axil 
of herbaceous bracts (although the bracts and pedicels are so densely 
clothed with wool, that the glomerule appears to be compact enough), 
that they might almost as well be placed among Helichrysea. Having 
usually as many as ten flowers in each capitulum, a naked receptacle, 
no pappus, and scarious, fimbriate, involucral scales, they must needs 
be referred to Crossolepis until the plant so incompletely characterized 
by Lessing shall be further known. 
2. C.? eriocephala (n. sp.) : foliis lineari-spathulatis linearibusve cum 
caulibus (2-3-pollic.) ramisque gracilibus diffusis mox glabratis, 
floralibus spathulatis capitulisque pedicellatis in glomerulum laxum 
confertis lanosissimis ; involueri cire. 10-flori squamis oblongo-lan- 
ceolatis acutis intimis linearibus fimbriatis. 
South-western Australia, Drummond, 1850.—The structure of 
the glomerule and capitula is the.same as that of the preceding 
species, but they are densely clothed with long wool. The margins 
of the involucral scales, about ten in number, are beautifully fimbriate- 
dissected and lanigerous. Corolla sparsely glandular. Ovary obovate, 
glabrous. 
3. C.? pygmea (n. sp.): caulibus vix semipollicaribus foliisque angus- 
tissime linearibus cito glabris; glomerulo globoso sublanato foliis 
paucis linearibus squamisque 5—6 ovatis latissime hyalinis involucrato ; 
capitulis subsessilibus ; involucri 5-flori squamis lineaxi-lanceolatis 
fimbriato-lanigeris; corollis 4-dentatis; achæniis anguste oblongis 
parce hirsutis. 
South-western Australia, Drummond.—Stems numerous from the 
annual root, very short. Glomerule 24 lines in diameter, much denser 
than in the preceding species, but exhibiting the same structure. 
Capitula subtended by one or two bracteate scarious scales : the proper 
involucral scales five or six, with a morerigid costa or axis than in the 
foregoing. Corolla very slender, as long as the involucre; the limb 
4-toothed. Pappus none. 
CHAMJESPHJERION, noy. gen. 
Capitula 5-7-flora, homogama, in glomerulum sessile humi adpressum, 
foliis radicalibus involucrum generale simulantibus cinctum, conglo- 
bata. Receptaculum (partiale) angustum, planum, paleaceum ; paleis 
