564 LXII. COMPOSITE. © [ Angianthus. 
cluster of flower- clic is long and slender, sometimes exceeding 1 in., more 
tapering at the base, the involucral bracts not so broad and less ciliate, and 
the florets mostly 5-merous and solitary with a very slight thickening at the 
base.—Chrysocoryne myosuroides, A. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. iii, 152; 
uniflora, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1851, 1 . 188. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 116. 
. A. tenellus, Benth. A slender annual of 1 to 2 in., tomentose or 
at length elabrous. Leaves small, oblong-linear, thick, obtuse. Spikes or 
clusters of flower-heads I obtuse and scarcely tapering on the base, 
the longest about 3 in. long but mostly shorter, brown and shini cep- 
tacle cylindrical, iüsder. Subtending braets very broad a y pios 
ith a rather more opaque oblong part at the base, very few of the lower 
ones empty and no floral leaves round the spike. Partial involucres of 2 
complicated rather broad transparent bracts ciliate on the margin. Florets 
2, 3-merous, not thickened at the base. Pappus none.— C7 ossolepis pusilla, 
Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 413, not of Benth.; Ohrysocoryne Drummondit, A. Gray in 
Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 152; C. tenella, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 
130, and in Hook. Kew Journ. viii, 149. 
S. Australia. Between the Fountain and Long Lake, Spencer's Gols We Aer 
T ee King George’s Sound, R. Brown ; Swan Rive r, Drummond, \st Call. 
"a specific name c has the inii over F. Mueller’ s, but id Dee gäe to an- 
pes SA by Tureza 
1. A. pusillus, Benth. A slender erect corymbosely- -branched annual 
of 2 to 6 in., slightly woolly when young but soon becoming glabrous. 
Leaves thick, linear or linear-cuneate, or the upper ones BE and ovate. 
usters of flower-heads oblong-clavate, 3 to 4 lines long, from a pale yellow 
to a rich brown, shining. Receptacle cylindrical, slender. Subtending 
very broad and transparent, with an opaque truncate base, very kä: 
lower ones smaller and empty, and no floral leaves round them. Partial in- 
volucres of 2 keeled bracts and 2 or 4 flat ones. Florets 2 or 3 in the v upper 
heads or rer only 1 in the lower ones, 5-merous, scarcely t 
Pappus annular and fringed but usually very gee et to 
the corolla and falling off with it.— Or ossolepis pusilla, Ben 
Enum. 61; Chrysocoryne pisilla, Endl. in Bot. Zeit. 1843, ei LI 
Pl. Preiss. i. 441; C. Huegelii, A. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 1515 
Sege E. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 404, 488. 
N.S. Wales. 
a Australia, Mura ris and adi — Waat ep SE 
n River, Huegel, Trtivioid, n. ob, "Preiss, n. 45; Murchison 
ër Oldfield. 
the upper 
ar. polyanthus. Spikes or clusters of flower-heads, when full iem } in. long, 
oe? involueres often containing 3 to 6 florets.—Murray and Darling d esert 
