578 LXII. COMPOSITA. —— [Gnaphalodes. 
glabrous. Pappus of about a elastically- — rather broad, plumose 
bristles.—D warf branching annuals, more or less white-tomentose. Leaves 
alternate, entire. Clusters of besteed eege 
The genus is limited to Australia. The ha id is almost that of Gnaphalium, but there are 
no female florets. Like Cephalipterum, it connects the Angianthee with Helichrysea. 
Floral leaves = ovate. Pappus-bristles ea any terminal 
ëlo 
Floral leaves oblong. Pappus-bristles with a stipitate ter minal tuft. 2. G. condens 
Floral leaves linear-filiform. pour bristles without e? terminal : 
tuft . . 8. G. filifolium. 
LG, “ics nosum, 4. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 298. A dwarf, : 
diffuse, white tomentose annual, the central stems exceedingly d the ' 
lateral ones often 2 to 3 in. long. Leaves small, petiolate, obovate. lus- 
ò e 
nected by an intricate wool. Florets numerous. Pappus-bristles plumose ` 
from the base, without any terminal tuft, spreading out elastically the mo- 
ment they are released from the wool of the involucre.—G. evacinum, 8 Sond. 
in Linnea, xxv. 520. 
N. S. Wales. C river, M acid armas Bowman. 
Victoria. Murray river and Wimmera, Dal 
S. rees Hom the E We ‘the head lof reen s Gulf, r Mueller. " 
ustralia, Drummond, lst Coll. also n. 69, and 5th Coll n. 360 ; Bowes an 
neces rivers, aha Gardiner river, Morell, ye River, Gei: 2013 
KN TK es S AWBL i ES P S 
W Australia, EE 5th Coll. n. 363; Sharks’ Bay, M. Brown. 
ew woolly 
- filifolium, Benth. A dwarf branching annual, with very fe ez 
r specimen “scarcely in. high. Leaves line SC the 
oundi ad 
ith the 
WW. A Murray river, Oldfield. I have only seen a s! ingle seine ; 
florets still ir in gie: "but there seems to be no doubt of its belonging to this gen 
55. CRASPEDIA, Forst. 
(Richea, Labill. ; san Benth.) get 
Flower-heads numerous, sessile or nearly so on a convex weree? de 
drical receptacle, in a glo bu lar or garg dense gengen or compount ral vw 
surroundec several more or less scarious bracts, forming a nvoluere d ` 
luere not exceeding the florets. Partial heads 3- to 8-flowe ered. 
