498 LXII. COMPOSIT#. [Minuria. 
of the ray of numerous capillary bristles, that of the disk variously reduced or 
more paleaceous.— Undershrubs or shrubs, glabrous or the young branches 
woolly or pubescent. Leaves alternate, narrow, entire or toothed. Flower- 
heads hemispherical or broadly ovoid, Gig solitary or corymbose. 
ay-florets usually white. 
us is confined to Australia. It is allied to T differing chiefly in the abor- 
The 
tive ere with a reduced or altered pappus 
E braets oblong-linear with scarious ciliate sapiunt Ray- 
achenes very deusely sill fr = ai x . 1. M. leptophylla. 
age? bracts narrow, Ray-achenes g glabrous or slightly 
pubescent. ` 
Involuere about 3 es LS Disk- pappus of 5 to 10 bristles, : 5 
with several short o 2. M. Cunningham. 
Ge nt 2 lines » ng Disk- -pappus “of fewer bristles than 
with several or scarcely any short ones. 
Glaucous ‘and ao rous. Leaves hin or — very : 
e 3. M. integerrima. 
You ool! y. "Leaves liuear, obtuse, entire. or toothed 4. M. denticulata. 
Greng ee blonde linear, ciliate, about 2 hnes long. Ray- E 
achenes glabrous. Disk-pappus united ina tube . . + + 5 M. suedifolia. 
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few. Flower-heads 
BULL peduneulate above the last leaves. Involucre hemispherical, the 
bracts not numerous, in 2 or 3 rows, with scarious ciliate margins, the inner 
ones 2 to 21 lines long, a few of the outer ones smaller. Ray-florets 20 to 
30, with oblong: linear ligule. Disk-florets about as long a s the involucre. 
as d conceal their 
achenes of the disk 
very short an 
Sieht flattened at e be) a few only elongated and e thic 
plumose at the end.— M. tenuissima, DC. Pro v. 298; M. ast leroidea, 
in Linnea, xxv. 467. 
Sond. 
N.S. Wales. Lachlan river, 4. Cunningham ; Macquarrie river, Mi wate a 
Darling, en — rivers, to € ve rrier range, Victorian and other Expeditio 
Vic mera, Dalla St. SC 
S.A trata: rassy e fa and sandy Ke from the Murray to 
Gulf, F. "Mueller and others ; Lake Gillies, Bu rhitt 
WV. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n 
Var.? bene Leg Ke CS nue with E WE hairs 
n Herb. F- 
kingham Bay, Dallachy, a ugle slender spe ege emmer 
Queensian 
Mueller, me a pi. flos er-head, dient for eëegdietiegt per there 
tion d oubtfu 
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2. M. Cunninghamii, Benth. E bushy shrub or undershrub, "m 
short slender branchlets, quite glabrou Leaves narrow-linear, wg thick 
longer ones acute and above 4 in. long, “the smaller ones often E um 
and. almost fleshy. Peduncles terminal, longer than the leaves. 
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