502 LXII. COMPOSITA. [C ilotis. 
one. Disk- oc abortive. Tare el forming a globular burr o 3 
or 4 lines diameter.—DC. Prod. . 302; C. dilatata, e ue ; DC. 
Nemo? Pour r river, g t: Burdekin river, F. Mue 
S. Wale > Port Jackso the Blue Mountai ains, R. Brow and Bade and in 
the interior to the Lachlan, Darling and Murray rivers and on to the Barrier — 
A. Cunningham, T ctorian Erp edition, and others; New England, e? Stuart, said to b 
one of the worst burrs for shee 
alia. Murray river, F. Mueller. 
C. glandulosa, F. Muell, in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 129, and in 
Bod. Kew Journ. vii. 146. A perennial with a thick woody stock and 
diffuse or procumbent branching stems of 6 in. to 1 ft., the whole plant 
hirsute with short glandular hals, Leaves petiolate, oblong-cuneate, deeply 
toothed towards the end, the upper ones narrower and se ssile. Flower-heads 
rather large, with blue or whitish rays.  Involucral xig M edi: ovate- 
lanceolate or lanceolate, the largest fully 3 lines long. Achenes of the ray 
o o 
jii tuberculate or muricate, otherwise glabrous. Pappus of about 3 to 
6 very unequal rigid awns, usually barbed at the end only, with as many 
A truncate scales. —HHuenefeldia coronopifolia, Walp. in Linnea, Xiv. 
ps 
Dry grassy ridges of the Snowy River and its tributaries towards Maneroo, 
F. Kanz Lhotzky. 
Section II. Cympanta.—Pappus consisting of 2 or more rigid awns, 
| dilated e united at the base, without scales. ‘Perennials with leafy stems, 
sometimes appearing annual. 
F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 400; Pl. Viet. 
C. cymbacantha, el 
i sop perennial, with ascending stems of about 1 ft., slightly wë? i 
pu Lo 
scen ower leaves Hnesicóuneate or oblong, coarsely toothed, 1 to 
2 in. long, narrowed into a long petiole; upper ones smaller, sessile, linear 
or lanceolate, entire. Involucral bracts ovate. Ray-florets eier 
narrow. Mikeno flat, obovate, crowned by 2 rigid divaricate scales, a: 
and concave, almost boat- -shaped at the base, tapering into short rigid barbe 
awns, e summit of the achene convex within the — —Sond. in Linnea, 
XXV 
irdner, 
Hoi? pS Sandy hills, Crystal Brook, F. Mueller; N.E. of Lake Gai | 
Var. pumila. Under 6 if. high and flowering the first year so as fo appear arie 
cse or hirsute. Flow Bech small. Se ales of the pappus not so broad at the base, 
tapering into longer, more densely barbed a 
"N S. Wales. Darling river. to Cooper’s Geh, Dallachy. 
s 
Ee Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 424. A der I on 
ne ; 
SE ads 3 to 4 lines diameter. Achenes glabrous, — : 
80, with 3 to 5 awns scarcely barbed and united at the base e weier? 
open almost cartilaginous cup, often as long as the achene, a and i i 
