554 LXII. COMPOSITA. [ Abrotanella. 
of the circumference female, 3- or 4-toothed, those of the disk hermaphrodite 
or male, 4-toothed. Anthers obtuse or slightly pointed at the base. Style- 
lobes short, truncate. Achenes 4-angled or flattened, not winged, without 
any pappus.—Dwarf perennials usually densely tufted with closely imbricate 
small leaves, more rarely with short decumbent or ascending stems and alter- 
nate entire iid es solitary, or few in small corymbs, sessile or 
shortly d 
us ranges over PN gg fend the Antarctic regions generally ; the three Aus- 
tralian ee appear to 
Leaves closely eise vies Dat 4 in. Jong Florets about * 
3 or 4 in each head : . 1. A. forsterioides. 
Leaves spreading. Flor s numerous in each head. 
Leaves 4 in. long. Peli not exceeding the leave . 2. A. nivigena. 
Leaves $ to 13 in. long. ën pene "9 to 4 in. Ru with 
more than one flower-hea . 8, A. seapigera. 
1. A. Ed Hook. 4 Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. 139. A densely 
tufted plant forming often large patches eaves persistent and ee im- 
Ser Keen margin -heads small and solitary on each branch, on à 
peduncle at first exceedingly "ani atlength nearly as long as the leaves 
Involuere of 3 to 5 linear or ng obtuse unequal bracts, usually shorter than 
Pa whi 
Achenes 4-angled. Seleroleina e Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 
Toit t. 14, and d Tasm 
— - Summit of the e = ORUM R. Ge and of all the mountains 
Soman "sg Seong, en velvety cushions, J. D. 
The oe is'n early that of Pterygopappus, but it may * at! once recognized by the longer 
narrower leaves, Trung of the generic characters. 
A. ni F. Muell. Herb. A d ien ous a: pan forming 
dense tufts or the Se shortly diffuse but not exceeding Leaves 
linear, obtuse, about 4 in. long, sheathing at the base, 
in the other species. Flower-heads solitary, on erer shorter than the 
leaves.’ Involucre not 2 lines long, the bracts very obtuse or truncate, à few 
scapigera, but only see n very —Trineuron uivigen Mm E 
rs Phil. Soc. Viet. i. 105, d Hook. ] Kew [fe viii. 149, and Pl. ^ie. 
E toria. Snowy summits of t t elevation of 5000 to 
6000 ft., F. Haste of the Munyong mountains, at an € 
. A. scapigera, F. Muell. Herb. Stems creeping or tufte 
bu wes to from 2 to 4in., labrous: rris oblong-linear, ri 
bg those of the disk about the same number.  Anthers shortly poin of 
€ base.  Achenes of the female florets oblong, compressed, those 
