mmm, 
mmm mg ` mmm, ` 
DE E EE Kä 
| Myriogyne.) LXII. COMPOSITA. 553 
been united by J. D. Hooker with Cotula, but the peculiar. SH and the shape of the achenes 
appear to me to be sufficient characters to retain it as disti 
Flower-heads all or nearly all sessile and lateral . . . . . . L M. minuta. 
ete in terminal leafless racemes uh iie iunio. ET 
l. M. minuta, Less. in Linnea, vi. 919. A prostrate branching annual 
or or perhaps sometimes a perennial of short duration, the slender stems 2 to 3 
in. or rarely 6 in. long in tropical regions, glabrous or clothed with short 
white woolly intricate hairs, in most of extratropical Australian dju 
more robust, glabrous, attaining sometimes 1 ft. Leaves g, + t4 in. 
ng, narrowed at the base or almost EE toothed or almost Sieg 
Flower-heads 12 to 2 lines diameter, solitary, at first terminal, but soon be- 
coming leaf-opposed, closely sessile or rarely accompanied by a second pedun- 
culate one (i.e. by a short l-headed flowering branch with the floral leaf 
abortive) ; florets very minute, the female corollas scarcely above a third of 
the length of their ovaries. Styles of the disk- ae with very short truncate 
lobes, A chenes slightly hairy.—DC. Prod. 139, with the numerous 
synonyms adduced ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 194 ph Gantt GN DC. Prod. 
7. 139; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. t. 41; Centipeda oebionlerity wert? Mig. Fl. 
Ned, Ind. ii. 89; Spheromorphea "centipeda, DC. Prod. . 140; Sphero- 
morphea Russeliana, DC. Le: Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. i9; LE minua, 
Forst. Prod. 57; Hook. f. Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. 144. 
Australia. Arnhem's Land, F. Mueller 1 ot 
Queensland. Broad Sound and Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Port Curtis, M‘Gillivray; 
Suttor Zo Thozet ; e khampton, Dadlachy e others. 
ales 
rt Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 491, m 
i "Clafelico vi river, Dofier in the interior, Lachlan and po river: 's, ete. 1A. Cun 
ningham, storie and other Expeditions p g eryr 
flower-hea ds). 
Victoria a. Very common in marshy places, F. Mueller and Seri P 
Swe Si ant zem" d Lace etc., J. : 
oem Common on the ray and thence to St. Vinecat's Gulf, F. Mueller 
and others ; v^ ein 
. Aus Kangaroo isand, Mer resta n. 89, 179, 183; Capel and Murchison 
Tivers, Oldfield. 
2. M. racemosa, dé in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 353. Glabrous, with 
ascending or erect stems, 2 to 14 ft. high. Leaves linear or Këeggengiegg 
eral braets oblong. Ray florets minute, almost globular. Styles of the oi 
rets with very short quem lobes. Achenes very prominently 4- 0 
angled, the angles ciliat a 
sland, B SC? river, Mitchell; Burdekin and Gilbert ri 
Newcastle ett a Mueller a eae is that of Dichrocephala, but Ce ipe 
: F. Mueller. 
.. "Md florets are very differently shaped. 
45. ABROTANELLA, Cass. 
(Scleroleima and Trineuron, Hook. f.) 
` Tnvolueral bracts few, in about 2 rows, nearly equal or the outer ones 
oe Receptacle hes flat, without scales. Florets all tubular, those 
