Minuria.} LXII. COMPOSIT®. 499 
ute. 
E. numerous, narrow, longer than the pappus; pes — usually 
few. Achenes of the ray glabrous or slightly pubescent, na ut flat 
With a pappus of numerous very fine white capillary bristles ; aa of the 
disk nearly terete and abortive, the bristles all, except 5 to 10, very short.— . 
Elachothamnus Cunninghamii, DC. Prod. v. 398; F. Muell. PL Viet. t. 34; 
ve Eurybiopsis intricata, mz Muell. ii Linneea, xxv. 396 ; Therogeron tenuifolius, 
Sond. in Linnæa, xxv. 45 
N. S. Wales. Sw wampy situations, Lachlan river, A. Cunningham ; Yayinga mown- 
tains, ‘ering river, Victorian Expedition ; on the Murray, ftl the Murrumbidgee, 
8. iret. Stony shady places, Cudnaka, F. Mueller. 
hina iran Benth. Perfectly glabrous, smooth and somewhat 
“aig Stems, from a perennial often woody base, erect, rigid, often 
torymbosely branched, rarely above 1 ft. high. Leaves lanceolate or linear, 
acute, quite entire, mostly X to 1 in. or rarely 2 in. long, the upper ones few 
and small. Flower-heads small, terminal. Involuere broadly hemispherical, 
2 to 3 lines diameter, with numerous narrow bracts, scarious on the edges 
Tay-florets exceedingly numerous, in many rows, small, narrow, white; disk- 
florets sometimes only 2 or 3, sometimes numerous. Achenes of the ray 
small, flat, the pa appus-bristles fine, white and not very numerous; achenes 
of the disk abortive, with still fewer pappus iili occasionally accom- 
panied by a few short ones. — Therogeron integerrimus, DC. Prod. v. 2 
: Australia. Hooker’s and Sturt’s C reeks, F. Mueller. 
a tigenslana. Burdekin river, F. Mueller; Condamine river, Leichhardt ; Cape 
UN s. “Wales Lachlan river, A. Cunningham ; Bogan river, Mitchell ; CC and 
| tioun, and thence to the Barrier Rauge, Victorian and other Expeditio 
M Mnt, F. Mueller 
S. Australia, river, F. Mueller; Cooper’s Creek, Herb. F. Mueller; N.W. 
interior, M ‘Douall eek D ? Ecpeditio tio 
: M. de enticulata, Benth. Allied to M. integerrima, but more branch- 
& with diffuse or ascending stems, rarely above 8 or 9 in. high, the young 
vas and sometimes the whole ipei clothed with a white woolly tomentum. + 
Leaves linear or linear-oblong, obtuse, entire or remotely toothed. € 
fads, florets, and achenes of M. in integerrima, but the disk-pappus m 
SN SE by a few very cui SC slightly dilated at the k 
“ip on denticulatus, DC. Prod. v 
tn * Wale Arid plains of the interior, pm A. Cunningham; Darling and 
n rivers, Vieloriax Expedition. 
> SAM Murray des yir Dallachy. 
"RM ja. In the interior, H Douall Stuarts Expedition. ot 
ijero neller a aha ia this with M. integerrima as one species under the 
5. M. suædif a, F. Muell. under Kippistia. A small bushy shrub or 
Dach under 1 ft. and often under 6 in. high, glabrous and glaucous. 
"es ow-lin'ar, nearly terete, under $ in. long, mo ostly recurved at the 
Gei Flower -heads small, pedunculate. ei hemispherical, 2 to 3 
"5 diameter, the bracts oblong-linear, ciliolate, in few — x florets 
