— Angianthus.| LXII. COMPOSIT#. 563 
2. A. pleuropappus, Benth. An erect slender branching annual, 
Brom or at length A May Leaves linear. Clus of flower- 
forming a general involucre and passing into the subtending bracts. Recep- 
tacle cylindrical, slender. Partial involucres of 2 keeled bracts and 2 flat 
8. Aus Gite ies — Port Titia. Wilhelmi. 
3. A. brachypappus, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 44, and 
in Hook. Kew Journ. vii. 149. An annual clothed with white wool, re- 
sembling 4. tomentosus, but the stems more diffuse. Leaves linear or linear- 
cuneate, the uppermost short ones close under the inflorescence. Clusters 
flower-heads oblong or cylindrical, attaining 4 to $ in., not so obtuse at 
- the base as in A. 3 tomentosus, closely sessile above the last leaves. Receptacle 
cylindrical. Partial involucres as in 4. tomentosus, 13 lines long, with 2 2 keeled 
aud 2 or 3 flat bracts. Florets usually 3. Pappus a short irregularly-fringed 
o ciliate cup, not divided into distinct scales, and without any ‘long ‘bristles. 
N. S. Wales. Darling and Lachlan rivers, Burkitt, Victorian Expedition ; Murray 
river, Dallachy. 
S. Australia. N.W. interior, M‘Douall Stuart s Expedition. 
h usus, Benth, A dwarf pipe annual, the slender stems 
| often Chee han the inflorescence, rarely in. ong. Leaves very 
S EC Clusters of flower-heads NATA or VS of a brown- 
or nearly white colour, 4 to $ in. long, surrounded by floral leaves re- 
: sembling the stem ones, the inner KE bordered at the base by scarious 
. ‘Margins, Receptacle ‘cylindrical, slender, the subtending bracts oblong, 
. tiliate, Partial involucres of 4 to 6 bracts, broader than the subtending one, 
De tips expanded into short broad plicate white appendages. Florets 2 or 
; 5-merous, Pappus of 5 or 6 lanceolate shortly aristate jagged scales 
: shorter than the floret.—Siloxerus eg CC, p Pl Nov. Holl. ii. 58. 
E En; Styloncerus humifusus, Spreng. Syst. 1t 451; DC. Prod. vi. 
= E E Preiss. i. 435; S. cyli lindraceus, bos | cha 436. 
i hers, thence to 
: eia E ovr ase INE E Ge fares ye e "E sn) pesi ES 
Tiver, m Prin s n. 1361, Oldfield, and Murchison river, Oldfield, and eastward to Esperance 
Ff 
i u^ minor, Clusters of eng Eng and the flowers themselves much smaller, the pap- 
: Wa nearly as long as the floret.—Kalgan river, Oldfield. 
"be derer, More s bust, 2 to 4 in. high. 
nvolucral bracts with whiter tips. —Styloncerus suber 
etss, n. 42. 
usters of voti tmr and flowers 
a Steetz in Pl. Preiss. 
^ A. myosuroides, Benth. Very dech allied to and perhaps a 
Variety of 4, tenellus, with the same stature an d foliage, but vw Hs or 
