1908 



* CRASFEDIA glauca. 

 Glaucous Craspedia. 



SYNGENESIA POLYGAUIA MdUALlS. 



Nat. ord. Composit^e CoRYMBiFERiE, or Asterace^. 



CRASPEDIA, Forst. — Ca/ji^M/wm circiter 5-florum. i?acAts bracteo- 



lata. Pappus uniserialis, plumosus Herba glabrata, Australasica, erecta, 



shnplicissima, monocephala, foliis oblongo-obovatis, follolis intcgris scariosis. 

 Lessing Gen. Compos. 271. 



Craspedia glauca. Spreng. syst. 3. 441. 

 Richea glauca. Labillard. Fl. Nov. Holl. 



Herba perennis, glaucescens, pilis quibusdam sparsis, teldque rard 

 araneosd vestita. Folia lineari-lauceolata, acuminata, subdectirrentia. 

 Caulis in planta culta foliosus, in spontanea sitbaphyllus ; semper monoce- 

 phalus. Capitulum compositum, sphcBricum, foliolis ovalis acutis involucra' 

 tuvi ; partialia 5-9 -yZora, pariter involucrata, sed foliolis interioribvs invo- 

 lucelli membranaceis scariosis. Receptaculum planiusculum, squaviis ser- 

 ratis membranaceis corollis brevioribus munitum. Pappus basi annularis, 

 in setis sedecim phimosis divisus corolloe longitudine. Corolla infuyidibularis, 

 lutea. Antherse caudatce. Stylus basi bulbosus, brachiis truncatis canali- 

 culatis, apice pulvinatim dilatatis. 



A curious herbaceous plant, found in Van Diemen's 

 Land, whence it was sent by Mr. James Backhouse to his 

 brother, in whose Nursery at York it flowered in April last. 



It will no doubt be hardy in the warmer parts of Great 

 Britain, but had better be kept in a frame in other places. 



The ample dissections in the accompanying plate give a 

 correct idea of its structure. Each of the round yellow 

 heads is composed of several smaller heads; and the invo- 

 lucre consists principally of the external leaflets of the small 



* Said to be so called from Kpaanecvi' a fringe, in allusion, I presume, to the 

 feathery pappus. 



