500 LXII. COMPOSITA. T Minuria, 
numerous, very little exceeding the involucre ; disk-florets numerous, as long 
as the involucre. Achenes o “the ray flat, with a pappus of rather numerous 
bristles, the ee? ones free, the inner ones more or less connate ; achenes of 
the disk abortive, the "e in s united in a more or less toothed scarious tube. 
— suadifolia. E . Muell. Rep. Babb. Exped. 12, and Pl. Viet. t. 35. 
Wi he Dallach 
8. mee alia. Coorong dies Irvine ; towards Spencer's Gulf, Warburton ; Stuart's 
Creek, Babbage’s Expedition. 
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Fruiting-heads usually Aae Achenes of the ray flat, aboy ate or oblong. 
Pappus of 2 or more barbed bristles, ee all short, but more GL 
ricate awns or spines, and accompanie 
sometimes by 2 or more truncate Seet: Disk-achenes usually abortive.— 
Perennial herbs or nay: annuals, with the habit nearly of Brac hycome. m s 
alternate, entire toothed or Poe tely divided. Flower-heads pedunculate, 
the rays white, rarely blue 
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Section I. Eucal nc consisting of rigid barbed awns and flat truncate 
scales, Rares with leafy st 
Leaves linear-lanceolate or oblon K dens toothed or pinnatifid. 
pu of the sso usually ve nited in zë ; awns Ce 2. . . ]. C. dentez. 
Leaves euneate or adiri “toothed at the end. „Scales of the -£lia. 
biis 2 or st alternating with the awns. Wee not = err . 2 0. cuneifo 
Leaves oblong-cuneate, deeply toothed at the cales dulosa. 
pappus 3 to 6, alternating with the awns. Pint Passer ttstined 3. C. glan 
Section II. Cymbaria.— Pappus consisting of 2 or mo ore rigid awns, di dilated mr 
at the base, without scales. Perennials with le eafy stems, sometimes s appearing d 
Awns of the pappus 2, — boat-sh t the base. Plant usually 
gegen or hirsut E x ie, cymbacantha. 
Awns of the pappus weg ‘united i ina glabrous ¢ cu at the base. 3 
Stems dopt glabrous or nearly so ap 5. C. erinacea. 
all distinct 
Section II. Acantharia.— Pappu s consisting of several pn awns, al 
and Beste hispid at the base, sometimes all short. 
Achenes not winged. Perennials, 
St ECH ing stolons or creeping jeega and a tuft of radical 
capes simple or with v w heads. 
Radion leaves Leg toothed or We Së" 
ome creeping. Plant usually hirs scabiosifolia. 
lower leaves mostly toothed. Fruiting sec? 4 in. Ca 6.0 
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