570 LXII. COMPOSITA. [ Gnephosis. 
icd minutely SE or 5- LCE Pappus of rad short but fine and 
plumose scales. 
S. Austral Lake Gillies, Burkitt. The habit of this minute plant is that of " 
= | eoe of paces but the numerous involueral bracts are rather those 
Gaep 
2. G. (?) eriocarpa, Benth. Described by F. Mueller from a single , 
fragment, a slender slightly branched stem or branch of about 4 in., with 
about $ in. long. Clusters of flower-heads globose, very young. Bracts 
narrow, scarious, ; woolly, with glabrous pink appendages, very numerous but 
most of them apparently belong to the partial involucres, a Wi? few forming 
a general involucre to the cluster. Partial heads 1- or 2-flowered. Corolla 
slender, 5-toothed. Achenes densely covered with long si without any 
pappus.—Stirrophorus eriocarpus, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 156. 
.8. Between Stokes Range and Cooper's Creek, Wheeler. The inflo- 
rescence is much too young to be certain of the floral characters 
3. G, macrocephala, Zurez. in Bull. Mose. 1851,i.190. Stems erect, 
slender but rigid lto 14 ft. high. Leaves linear, almost filiform, the uppe" 
ones short. Clusters of flower-heads ovoid when fully out, about } in. long, 
with a very few short empty woolly outer bracts, the subtending bracts within 
the cluster narrow and shorter than the involucres. Receptacle cylindrica 
Partial involucres nearly sessile, of about 4 outer persistent bracts, and abou 
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rious, the tips of the same colour, erect and persistent. Florets DU 
o appus broadly cupaiape, crenulate.— Cep&alosorus gj ymnocephalus, A. Gray 
n Hook. Kew Te iii. 153. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 202; Murchison river, Oldfield. oam 
specimens are more branched, the outer persistent t bracts are narrower aud more NUI ett 
and the pappus shorter than in Drummond's, but they probably all belong to one specie» 
Leaves narrow-linear, almost Gliform. Clu rie of eam globular, e 
4 lines diameter, with prominent florets, surround or 3 rows of * 
e bracts scarious, 
pus el prominent. Involuere slightly compressed, h a small 
ones (one subtending ?) enen end at the top wit without 
cing ae coloured lamina, 3 or 4 inn es broader, 8 EE merous: 
spreading tips, all exceedingly eo "Florete solitary, ; 4- OF 
