268 SOUTH-WEST AUSTRALIAN COMPOSITÆ, 
Achenia fertilia pilis longis sericeo-villosissima, sterilia glabra vel 
hirsutula. Pappus corolla superne ampliata 5-dentata (dentibus 
majusculis reflexis) pl. m. brevior.—Caules subpedales, capitulis 
multis subsessilibus glomeratis in spicam densam oblongam confertis. 
8. P. spicatus (Steetz, Pl. Preiss. vol. i. p. 479): caulibus simplicibus 
erectis apice nudiusculis cum | foliis filiformibus laxe cinereo-lanatis ; 
involucri ovoidei squamis omnibus exappendiculatis, intimis flores 
vix squantibus.— Var. a spica ovoidea vel clavata, basi capitulis 
infimis remotiusculis pl. m. interrupta, semipollicari vel pollicari. 
— Var. B, spica thrysoidea 2—3-pollicari basi laxa composita, capi- 
. tulis rufo-fuscis, caule ultrapedali. 
Swan River, (Preiss) Drummond.—The involucres in most of Drum- 
mond's specimens are straw-colour, the corollas of the same hue; in 
others with short spikes they are reddish-brown, nearly as deep as m 
var. 8, iu which the lobes of the corolla have turned brownish or blackish, 
as described by Steetz. Heads barely two lines long. Pappus whitish 
or fuscous, strongly and equally plumose, but with shorter hairs than 
in P.pygmweus; the setæ in the fertile flowers sixteen to twenty, à 
little shorter than the corolla, in the sterile about half its length. 
§ III. ACHYROCLINOIDES. Capitulum 8—12-florum, parvum, basi nu- 
dum. Achenia parce hirsutula vel glabra, interdum omnia fertilia. 
Pappus corollam subsequans.— Caules ramosi, capitulis fere omnibus 
pedicellatis subfasciculatis in corymbum compositum dispositis. 
4. P. corymbosus (n. sp.): foliis anguste linearibus a basi ad apicem 
sensim attenuatis planis cauleque corymbosi-ramoso laxe lanatis ; Ca- 
pitulis brevissime pedicellatis ; involucri fusci seu ferruginei squamis 
intimis breviter albido-appendiculatis. 
Swan River, Drummond—Darling Range, South-west Australia, 
Collie.—Stems a span to a foot high, leafy.  Fascicles of the compound 
corymb 2—4-cephalous; the cylindraceous heads 2 lines long, slightly 
pedicellate. Petaloid tips of the innermost involucral scales nearly as 
conspicuous as in P. pygmaeus. Corolla, etc., nearly as in P. spicatus ; 
.. the pappus of twelve to fourteen sete less strongly plumose. 
5. P. polycephalus (n. sp.); foliis anguste linearibus planis a basi ad 
apicem attenuatis ramisque diffusis tenuiter araneosis demum glabra- 
tis; capitulis fastigiato-corymbosis longiuscule pedicellatis; invo- 
lucri straminei squamis omnibus exappendiculatis. 
Swan River, Drummond. Resembles the foregoing, but is less woolly, 
