Angianthus.) LXII. COMPOSITE. 561 
r ones flat or slightly concave. Receptacle without scales. Florets 
Ré tubular, slender, 4- or 5- toothed, often hardened at the base. 
- Anthers more or less distinctly pointed or tailed at the base. Style-branches 
_ tearly terete, truncate. Achenes usually compressed. Pappus none or of 1 
posite, Clu stel ys Or spikes s of flower-heads terminal, sessile or 
pedune liue, ivii, oblong-ovoid, globular or hemispherical, the partial 
 hwolueres usually very deciduous with the achenes, or rarely the subtending 
ct persistent. 
The genus is limited to Australia. The numerous genera, mostly monotypic or nearly so, 
which iti is here proposed to unite, have been established chiefly upon minute distinctions in 
haract In 
t 
M Nyriocephalus, en so than in Gnephosis and a and v b omm involuere 
. Wt reduced and flattened than in either of the two latter genera. For the common name 
— Morerus of Gite: has undoubtedly the right of a but it has by common con- 
. Wh been rejected a s being at complete variance Ka the etymology given ty e author. 
— Üusini's edition (rejected as barbarous) and S gis generally adopted one are both. 
E than Wendland's name, which typically steal the trile, ei has been e 
-to several of the species, whilst Labillardiére’s has o nly been given to a single .one. 
| memi rales of the science SES therefore to be best observed by applying the name of 
 Aigianthus to the whol e gen 
of flower-heads cylindrical, oar oi : 
Em wey filo, ihe ster erste a cylindrical r rhachis. 
arely herbaceous perennials. 
i conspien 
m cylindrical without floral leaves. Pane of 2 or 3 
es Si in bristles plumose at the en 1. A. tomentosus. 
Spikes cylindrical, surrounded by flo n. leaves. ‘Pappas of 1 
ery Gier fringed boat-shaped se 2. A. pleuropappus. 
‘Spikes ee g, often surroun Tr by floral leaves. Pappus 
a short regular Ge fringed 6 8. A. brachypappus. 
icon liv, surrounded - ac lente, pos ve 
with white appendages ae of several lanceolate 
inged scales ere very shor 4. A. humifusus. 
B MS none or a punts 
tacts of the general AC all scariou 
ions slender, Seen > $ to Lin. kp attenuate at the 
g bro 5. A. myosuroides. 
Spikes’ "eich c vlin iL den " both ends, bro 6. A. tenellus. 
y we ical, obtuse a e 
ae oblong, attenuate e base ` S S 1. 4. pusillus. 
racts of the general editi ea E or tomen ose, Bec 
although short. Spikes ovoid-oblong .. 8. A. Milnei. 
e ly ee -heads ovoid, the Sach, conical. Plant 
at th 
none or a biu Sa T T — than 
the heads , 9. A. Cunninghamii. 
SH mer -heads = lobular or Kee the re- 
Piacle flat, convex x rely co: pats (almost obtong in 
Cou Haag or nae herbaceous perennia 
` eg 
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