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a hot in. long or scarcely any, forming little clustered tufts $ t 
1 ie linear, few and short. Clusters of flower-heads GER 3 to 4 lines 
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i clusters of flower-heads are more 
: * 1 to 2 in. diameter. Leaves linear. usters 
SS ing flat one, narrow and woolly in the upper Ger? 
` Zuel and bulb-like at the he base; bulb fringed with a ring of long i wool, more 
SH herent to the achene than to the rest of the coro 
16. A. eriocephalus, Benth. A little ee $ annual of 1 to 2 in. 
leaves narrow-linear, often opposite. Cluster f flower-heads ovoid or at 
lmgth globose, but rarely exceeding 2 lines dom and surrounded by 
floral leaves not much longer than the cluster. Receptacle smaller and more 
convex than in 4. Preissianus. Partial involucres the same as in that species. 
~~ usually 2, slender, 4-merous, but not at all thickened at the base. 
Pappus a minute ring or in inconspicuous.—Skirrophorus eriocephalus, 
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 198. t. 53 A. 
etoria. Victoria range, Yarra river, sandy and salt plain near Brighton, Hobson’s 
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sat ` Seacoast near George Town, Gunn. 
alia. King George's Sound, R. Brown. 
E comedi s the opposite leaves, ab clusters of flower-heads and florets uot 
di at the es appear E separate t this from A. Preissianus, but som erem one or all 
these characters are inconstant, and this may o a variety only of that spec 
11. A. pygmzeus, Benth. A little diffuse annual, Ee tufts of 
about 1 in. diameter, white, with a close tomentum. Leaves linear. Clusters 
» 9-merous att thickened os the sus Se the AP e of flowering. Pa n 
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W. ES Neiva 5th Coll. n. " 
18. A. globifer, Benth. A dwarf plant, apparently annual, the stems 
o 1 in. diameter. 
bracts either all broad 
and scarious or the outer ones narrower and more woolly with short leafy tips, 
the mubtending bracts in the laste with an opaque midrib, scarious margins, 
and often produced into a small petal-like pale pink lamina. Receptacle ob- 
long. . Involucres of 2 keeled and 2 inner flat bracts. Florets solitary slender, 
)-merous, ecoming somewhat enla 
: E the top of the achene. ER ne.—Hyalochlamys globifera, A 
. Stay in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 
s a . 904. The subtending bracts within the 
ven in most species of the genus, but the in- 
'olueres are much more those of eme than of Gnephosis. 
9. A. demissus, Benth. : little diffuse a forming loose tufts 
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