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or Eu or perennials with erect or ascending branching ge Leaves 
wer-heads terminal, the ray white 
Besides the Katie species, which are all endemic, there are only three from N 
The genus i s, howeve , nearly all eg e Bellis, a group confined to the northern 
Es j eng consisting of a ring of short t seale- like bristles, or 
Kee, = which F. Mueller proposes t 
unite it. The SN of the Australi ian 
r, differ in habit; they are e all. distinguished by the dry or scarious margins 
oe the mit bracts, and most of them by other more trifling banat ters. 
N I. Brachystephium. — Hay MUN 'dehenes often compressed, 
"og cially ly Ee young, but with thi winged, and sometimes at length 
as thick as ls i anpus conspicuous, stellately. ipii. Involueral bracts usu sually. 
broadly sea 
Perennial, wi cg stout erect or ME stems nearly simple. Lower EE 
leaves pinnatifid. Flower-heads larg . 1. B. diversifolia. 
Small erect branching gin nial. EN cuneate, most toothed or 
lo wer-h small . . 2. B. melanocarpa. 
Small glabrous bendi. with e reeping Senge. pce dical, : 
linear, entire or pinnate. Scapes simple. Jower-heads EN . 8. B. radicans. 
Small annuals, Flower-heads small, w with fe very small ray-flore 
Stem branched and Rind Achenes iesu with 4 obtuse eg 
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4. B. goniocarpa. 
radical, scape sim mple. Achenes smooth, with 2 thick corky 
mde, beee use pn d 7 a line of long renee hairs, and 2 
angles and glabro . . 5. B. pachyptera. 
Section II. Paqu 
rina.—Ray conspicuous. Achenes often compressed, especially 
Sa äm, 
M with thickened Gegen never winged, and sometimes at length as thick 
s minute or 
be annuals, with narrow mcs Ray-achenes different from 
; is 
Stems erect eg pu pinnate 6. B. iberidifolia. 
Stems simple or EE beanched at the base. Leaves entire or : 
es 4 too toothed at the end . 7. B. pusilla. 
c": 
Kätrisher, Besteierung branching annual (or rarely 
al ?). Leaves s mostly obovate, toothed or lobed. Eas 
"mg 
< 8. B. microcarpa. 
Mid glabrous (except B. angustifolia). ' Leaves narrow, entire 
9r pinnate, 
pi 
Stock tufte 
Dës all radical. Scapes aas — or ee 80. Se 
ves pi lee qr 
Leaves linear or lanceolate, entire . 10. B. DEN. 
Stems decum 
S € bent, or ascendi ing, simple or with few divaricate 
2 es, leafy at the bas : 
Leaves long, narro «d w, deeply Wem E DUE ER z Muelleri. 
SH Koch Keser obtuse, entire. . . . 12. B. parvula. 
o deier hi eer 5 . 18. B. graminea. 
a appus 
aly slightly glandular. pubescent. “Leaves SE n . 14. B. angustifolia. 
Achenes narrow, with thick margins and flat sides. 
