Calocephaths.] LXII. COMPOSITH. 575 
| . 8. C. Sonderi, F. Muell. Rep. Babb. Exped. 13. An erect eg és 
— loosely woolly annual, with a hard stem, attaining — above 1 ft. 
= height. Leaves alternate, linear, the upper ones short and decurrent. Cluster ters 
of flower-heads yellow, ovoid or globose, rarely 5 lines long. jkorpi cylin- 
.. drieal, branched. Partial heads stipitate, 2- or 3-flowered. Subtending and 
.. outer involucral bracts 3 or 3, in the lateral heads more numerous, in the 
. terminal one narrow but scarious and woolly-ciliate with a small lamina.or 
appendage, a few inner ones broader, less ciliate, with a more d ge 
yellow lamina. Pappus of several very unequal scales united in a ri 
cup at the base, and more or less produced into awns or bristles of Wor: the 
.. longer ones are plumose at the end. 
| Victoria. Avoca and Murray rivers, F. Mueller. 
S. Australia. Murray scrub, F. Mueller. 
4. C. lacteus, Less. Syn. Comp. 271. A perennial with rather slender 
.. but hard ascending or erect stems of 1 to 2 ft., hoary or white with a close 
= tomentum. Leaves linear, obtuse, the lower ones or nearly all „opposite; 
Clusters of flower-heads oblong-ovoid or nearly globular, white, 1 
long, without any or only 1 or 2 very small leafy ‘bracts under them. 
tending bracts within the cluster short, sca ous. Involu cres of about 10 
bracts, the outer ones sadov iair, ‘lightly or not at all ciliate, without 
appendages, the inner ones more deciduous, oblong, with a white broad 
t. 60; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 196. 
ia. Stee river, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Ballarat, Bacchus Marsh, etc., 
F. Mueller and other: 
E Tasmania. isdo Cove, yide river, R. Brown; salt-marshes and seacoast, 
. northern rs of Ce island, J. D. Hoo 
$ Bet thanie, Ce aech river, Gawler river, F. Mueller. 
w. Boran, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 118. 
5. C. citreus, Less. Syn. Comp. 271. A perennial with a woody base, 
closely Breif C. lacteus and perhaps a variety, but the leaves are nar- 
tower, less obtuse or almost acute and the clusters of flower-heads yellow. 
Partial heads more sessile than in C. lacteus, the subtending bracts often very 
. Small, the outer involucral bracts more woolly at the base, “the lamina of the 
. Ànner ones bright yellow. Pappus-scales more lumose than in 
but arem. sometimes few only and slender, sometimes 8 to 10 and broader. 
—DC. vi. 151; Brongn. Voy. Coq. t. 60. 
N. S. geg Lachlan river, seni Ce neng C. Stuart. 
Tasmania. e Cove, Derwent river, R. B. 
S. Australia. Guichen Bay, Sege? get: Zeg Lofty, Mount Barker, F. Mueller. 
, oides, Benth. A slender branching annual, Leaves 
ear. Clusters of DAR ER from globose and about 3 lines diameter to 
ovoid and full nes long, surrounded by a few scarious woolly bracts shorter 
hi L] D H 
y the florets. Receptacle small. Partial heads on a stalk-like rhachis, 6- 
or more-flowered. Subtending bracts within the cluster rather narrow, con- 
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