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crown, the central one very short, the lateral long, simple, or trifid, each 
branch ending in a cluster of flower-heads. Branches filiform, cobweb- 
bed, becoming glabrous, laxly leafy. Leaves alternate, obovate, or spathu- 
late, obtuse, membranous, loosely woolly, at length sub-glabrate. Heads 
several massed together in terminal glomerules, enveloped in long, curled, 
woolly, white hairs. nv. scales subbiseriate, completely hidden in their 
wool. Flowers numerous, all perfect, tubular, 5-toothed. Anthers with 
short, bearded, or cloven tails. Pappus of a few slender bristles, quite 
naked for more than half their length, towards the apex bearded with 
ovoid, swollen, glassy cellules. Achenia obovate, minutely granulated. 
This curious little plant seems to have escaped the notice of all col- 
lectors since Thunberg’s time. The ‘“ E. Oculus Cati,” DC., found by 
Drege on Table Mount, proves, on examination, to be identical with 
Helichrysum marifolium, DC., and is very different, generically and spe- 
cifically, from Lessing’s plant. To Lasiopogon micropoides, DC., figured 
in our next plate, our plant bears externally the closest resemblance, but 
is of somewhat stronger growth, and differs essentially in the heads being 
constantly homogamous, and in the anthers, pappus, and achenium. 
All the other species of “ Eriosphara’”’ DC., except E. dubia (which 
I cannot distinguish from Leontonyax squarrosus) belong to Helichrysum. 
They form, with ZZ. marifolium and a few others, a group of Euhelichry- 
sum, distinguished by the hairy involucres; a character, however, which 
they have in common with H. maritimum and others of the section 
Lepicline. 
Fig. 1, a plant; the natural size. Fig. 2, flower, with pappus and nearly ripe ache- 
nium; 3, apex of style; 4, anther; 5, apex of a pappus-bristle ; all magnified. 
150. LASIOPOGON MICROPOIDES, DC. ( Composite.) 
Z,. micropoides : capitulis multifloris, floribus hermaphroditis 20-25, 
foemineis 15-18.—DC. Prodr. 6, p. 246. 
Var. a; totum arachnoideo-lanatum, foliis obovatis spathulatisve.— 
L. mieropoides, DC. ! 1. e. 
Var. B; caulibus mox glabratis, foliis angustioribus sublinearibus.— 
L. molluginoides, DC. / 1. ¢. 
Has.—Little Namaqualand; a, between Silver Fontein, Kooperbergen, and Kaus, 
Drege! 3, near Verleptpram, on the Gariep, Drege! Modderfontein, Rev. A. White- 
head! (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—Root annual, simple, slender. Stems 1-3 inches high, 
branched from the base, filiform, the branches woolly or glabrate, ending 
in globose, woolly glomerules of 8-12 heads. Leaves 3-5 lines long, 1-2 
lines wide, thinly membranous. Heads heterogamous, with about 25 
perfect, campanulate, 5-toothed central flowers, and 15-18 filiform, mar- 
ginal female flowers. Pappus of many, copiously plumose bristles, the 
plumes very long. <Achenia rather coarsely tubercled. 
This closely resembles Z. muscoides of N. Africa, 8. Europe, and 
Central Asia, and which is also found in 8. Africa; but has larger 
flower-heads, and much fewer female flowers in proportion to the perfect 
ones, Ihave already noticed its resemblance to Eriosphera Oculus Catt. 
