544 LXII. COMPOSITAE. [ Glossogyne. 
brous perennials, with alternate or opposite, rene or undivided narrow 
leaves. Flower-heads small on long terminal pedunc 
A small genus, extending over Ce Asia, to which have ap AM ies ‘one or two 
erer? specie. Of the three Australian species one is also in the Indian rchipelago, the 
other t re endemic. It is very mise allied to Bidens, and further voe of the 
allied jii plants = nem its reduction to a xm on of that genus. 
Leaves alternate, pinnat y-florets few. | Disk-florets 4-toothed. 
St ew ches de the disk- eed Án en? St longitudinally UE 
the awns erect or ed spre ing . 1. G. tenuifolia. 
Silcimdher rather short. Achenes E dei rugose, the awns 
very spreading or reflex ed 9. G. retroflexa. 
poe opposite, entire, slender. Foie ‘wanting. Disk-florets 
othed . Mera bes E . 8. G. filifolia. 
. G. tenaifolla, C; ; DC. Prod. v. 632. Stock pinus, tufted, 
doa almost SNR with erect dichotomous stems, 6 in. to 1 ft. high, 
often almost leafless, or sometimes elongated decumbent and leafy # the base. 
Leaves chiefly radical or nearly so, the lowest sometimes cuneate and 3-lobed, 
all the others piunately divided into 5 or 7 stiff linear segments either entire 
or 2- or 3-lobed. Flower-heads ot on long slender terminal peduncles. 
Involuere campanulate, not 2 lines lon Ray-florets s small, yellow, spread- 
ing. Achenes linear, flattened, ter 2 4 lines long, striate, with 3 or mo 
numerous ribs on each faee, erowned by 2 erect or Be 7 diverging awns, 
— Bidens tenuifolia, Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. 44 
culosa, DC. Prod. v. 632; G. aee F. Mud. in Linnea, xxv. 
Biden cy Dee in ra Mos -1 vi 
N. Australia, 5 od 
Quee et E ‘tnd Sp Dh er Bay, R. Brown ; Cape Ge 
we mag Rodd’s Bay, 4. Cunnin ; Cape York and Port De tis M*Gillivra y; Rock- 
ugham Bay, Dalene: : reed land and ie SE Moreton Bay, F. Mueller. 
N. ales. Port Jackson, R. Brown and o 
EH rds land, hes Stuart ; 
piures merid een 
rence, Hastings and Aetia ies Beckler ; Kiama, ri 
river, 4. Cunningham 
et Vereen? Cudnaka and between Spencer's Gulf and Flinders range, F. Mue 
is also in New Caledonia and in the Indian Archipelago, and differs but very 
little de? "the ast Indian G. pinnatifida. 
. G. re F. Muell. Fragm. i. 51. A tufted perennial, ves 
Es the habit and foliage of the ordinary form of G. ¢ enuifolia, and a 
same inflorescence, involucre and florets, but the style-branches althoug h fi 
and the awns, usually 3, are very spreading or reflexed on the achene. 
ru — plains between Peak Range and Darling ors F. Mueller. 
SCH bra ile. Leaves o posite, | 
sg E e 
disk-florets tubular, 5-toothed. Style thickened upwards, with 2 ëmer 
ee almost hairy branches. Achenes about as long as the mvo on 
