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, ‘ems of 1 to 3 ft., silvery-white with a close wool; giis leaves oblong, 
. linear, or lanceolate, often several inches long; upper ones few, small, and 
distant, all silvery- white on both sides. Clusters of flow Were solitary and 
S terminal, globular, bright yellow, 2 to 1 in. diameter, without any general in- 
| volucre. ` Receptacle convex, hollow. Subtending bracts within the cluster 
. to and short, woolly-ciliate as well as the receptacle. Partial heads 6- 
| !o8-flowered. Involucral bracts and scales of the receptacle ovate or oblong, 
į ‘oncave, very thin and transparent, with yellowish tips, but not spreading. : 
, pv 5 12 to 15 KE bristles.— Pycnosorus globosus, Benth. in Hueg. 
Enum. 67; DC. Prod. vi. 153 
Vitoria Wimmera, Dallachy. 
[Ane tralia. South coast, R. Brown ; Cudnaka, and near Lake Torrens, F. Mueller ; 
] Mount Searle, Warbur 
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56. CHTHONOCEPHALUS, Steetz. 
(Chamesphzrion, 4. Gray ; Gyrostephium, Turez. ; Lachnothalamus, F. Muell.) 
. . Flower-heads numerous and sessile on a small Zeg: in a globular or 
-depressed cluster or compound head, surrounded by a few more or less scari- 
| Dis or leafy bracts, forming an irregular general aeiaai, Partial heads 
| few- or m many-flowered. Involucre of te scarious bracts, the outer ones 
 Rarely with leafy tips, and similar bracts or scales on the partial receptacle 
1 under each floret. Florets hermaphrodite, tu inam 4- or 5-toothed. Anthers 
. Bore or less distinctly tailed. Style-branches nearly terete, truncate. Achenes 
` somewhat compressed, glabrous. Pappus none or short, annular, 
p^ ringed and very deciduous. — Very dw. dwarf branching or Fen annuals. Leaves 
 adical or alternate, entire. erch of flower -heads 
The ge ndemic in Australia. It connects the Pen with the following 
genera, the fi eeneg belg more ve col je than in the latter, but yet with a few 
2 foral leaves occasionally intervening., betwee 
Stems 1 Zeg 2 in. long. Involucral bracts with broad obtuse tips. No 
S 1. C. tomentellus. 
Sens plants, with the sessile cluster of flower-heads surrounded by ` 
ini ucral bracts with broad obtuse tips. No pappus s. C pseudoevaz. 
volucral bracts with rigid acute tips. REIS a vay "deciduous 
E n . 8. C. pygmeus. 
ES and sometimes by`l or 2 small leafy ones. Heads globular, many- 
