558 LXII. COMPOSITA. [ Myriocephalus. 
Leaves above the broad base linear, grass-like, often 3 to 4 in. long. 
Clusters of flower-heads globose or hemispherical, à i to $ in. diameter, sessile 
heads very numerous, 
involucres of 3 3 beneid; one "oa and two lateral, all ren Me e 
more or less concrete at the base, transparent but narrow above. Florets 
very numerous, 3- or tonite: Achenes narrow, Ape hairy especially 
near the top. Pappus of a single hair-like awn, slightly dilated at the base 
or occasionally none. —Hyaloepi rhizocephala, DC. Prod. vi. 149; H. occi- 
dentali uell. Fragm. iii 
N.S. Wales. Molle’s Plains, m Dini gen j between the Lachlan and Darling 
rivers, Burkitt. 
Victoria. Wet grassy places near the Victoria range, F. Mueller; Skipton, Whan i 
Wimmera, Dallachy. 
i S. Australia. Murray river, F. Mueller; Cygnet Bay, Kangaroo Island, Water- 
Ouse. 
- Australia, Drummond ; Gordon river, e tm 
air-like | bristle of the pappts occurs on the Western as well as on the Eastern spe- 
cimens, but is often so fine as readily to escape cmi 
what dilated base, the lower ones ns + long, t the e upp per ones smaller. 
Clusters of d when Ee t i 
General involucre of several rows nume rous very sma all scarious woolly- 
outer ones with a rigid midrib and slightly woolly-ciliate, the inner ones quite 
glabrous = a scarcely conspicuous midrib, Achenes slightly pubescent. 
Pappus no 
WL A ia: S Murchison rivets 
Oldfield. wan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 93; 
Var. eldii. Weaker aud more branched, sometimes ent woolly, He dcr 
sad of is —— involucre sometimes more arg insit: metimes less so in g 
—Lamprochlena Oldfieldii, V. Muell. Fragm. iii. 157. wë river an 
Chempion ‘Bay, Oldfield ; Drummond, Gth Coil. n. 162. 
PEN involucre of many rows of y very numerous E bracts woolly- 
ciliate at the ae with white ovate-oblong spreading tips forming 2 o? 
round the cluster. Partial heads 4- to 6-flo wered, the involucres of about 
cuneate-oblong scarious woolly-ciliate bracts, the subtending and outer ve 
With a rigid midrib, the inner ones transparent almost throughout. Flore 
