SE E, ee FEA RENTRER TIT TT TT esconde s ia — 
Podocoma. | LXII. COMPOSITE. 493 
pe Cap and P. primulifolia, Cass.), is identical -— bref hirsutus, 
Hook. 2m steropsis macrocephala, Less., is most probably the same as Podo- 
pappus to. Zeng Hook. et Arn. The genus only differs from Vitladinia in the beaked 
acheue, the "ep of the beak varying even in the same species 
l. P. cuneifolia, R. Br. App. Sturt Exped. 17. Stems much branched 
and almost woody at the base, with ascending leafy branches rarely above 4 
mostly above 1 in. long, ciliate as well as the petiole and stem with long 
rigid white hairs. Pedun ncles much longer than the leaves. Involucral bracts 
numerous, linear-lanceolate, acute, the inner ones 4 in. long and coloured at 
the tips, the outer ones shorter, m more or less lote imet a as "A as 
self. Pappus fine and white. See Seier F. Muell. and Sond. in 
Linnea, xxv. 466. 
N. pe Nichol Bay, N.W. coast, F. ios iuri uon 
i rr am Mount Gon ingberi, Victoria n Expedi 
ia. Dry river- rena Cudnaka, Arkaba, A. = "Mueller ; in the N. interior, 
yet Stuarts Expedition 
15. ERIGERON, Linn. 
' Involucre from ovoid to hemispherical, the bracts numerous, narrow, nearly 
equal or imbricate in several rows. Rece ceptac e? flat or slightly convex, with- 
out scales, Ray-florets female, numerous, in 2 or’ more rows either ms 
ligulate or very narrow, or the inner 0 ones aer dd filiform. Disk-flore 
Style-branches narro ttened, with lanceolate tips or 
thee papillose outside. Achenes flattened, the margins usually 
thickened. — pa of copious capillary nearly equal bristles. — Herbs. 
us 
bon. SLM or radical. Flower-heads solitary corymbose or paniculate. 
; im deca pink or iere 
Es mes SU bot pes ical w odi d 
n th bl of American origin, Seiten ropie 
the Old W other prota ma to be er “The genus is very ve vue p 
e at aech chic fly in the d narrower ray-florets, and even passes 
by almost de garg among ‘the A rican species, and on the pe hand ‘ais 
on of the n Cenotus might almost iul well be placed in 
Section T, ahaa e ray-florets all ligulate in many rows. 
vu tufted perennial. Leaves mostly radical. ie Ez gegen 
E few NAM leaves or none . . eU 
E t, bra us al y 
ower-heads Kent eani L solitary or corymbose. : 
Leaves Ce or lanceolate. Tutor joder numerous, capil- 
H 
1. E. pappochroma. 
9. E. ambiguus. 
Leaves arrow line ' Pappus-bristles few, strongly barbcllate, na 
cadu . 3. E. minurioides. 
very ca e 
Tende very y boll, “ovoid in an oblong panicle. e 4. E. canadensis. 
