D 
. Tow or even two rows where the florets are numerous) fem 
582 ` LXII. COMPOSITAE. , [ Chthonocephalus. 
ustralia. Murchison river, Oldfield ; Useless Harbour, Sharks’ Bay, M. Brown 
(with rune clusters of flower-heads and smaller involucral bracts). 
2. C. pseudoevax, Biest: in Pl. Preiss. i. 445. A small annual with 
scarcely any stem, consisting of numerous siisi flower-heads, forming 
patches of 3 to 1n. diameter, surrounded by a few oblong spreading leaves, 
1 to à in. long, forming as it were a general involucre, with rarely a leaf 2 
tW protruding between the heads, there are also immediately under most 0 
the heads or ez een the outer ones 2 or 3 linear leafy bracts more or less 
woolly with s s tips not exceeding the heads. Heads ovoid-globular, 
nearly 2 line antes consisting of numerous broad i scarious bracts 
. N.S. Wales. Between Darling river and Cooper’s Creek, Neilson. 
Victoria. Murray river, Da//achy. 
S. rage Lake Gillies, Burkitt. 9414 5; 
Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. ; Avon river, Preiss, n. 
2 chison river, Oldfield. ad 
and Drummond’s specimens appear to me * have precisely the same struc ure; 
2t joe P the receptacle pore Km as Ze fruit ripens and slightly i DEL 
base by the thickening of the achene. There appear however to be 2 forms, the o ; Oli 
larger gier scales, the other with smaller Wee ones; the two are sent ues d in 
field, separately in other zeg? but as ken former are always in flower, the 
fruit, the difference may be owing to age. 
us, Benth. A dwarf stemless plant, the narrow-linear 
. C. pygmze 
EUR leaves forming an involucre round a sessile depressed-globular cluster 
of flower-heads of 3 to 5 lines diameter. Partial heads about 5- to /- 
te D 
Involueral bracts 1 or 2 and the scales of the receptacle with lanceolate ad 
the ce 
nearly white rigid tips preme beyond the florets, a few scales in 
of the Ké usually empty. Corollas slender, 3- or seta = toothed. l Adam 
rapinis Pappus a fringed scaly ring e E deciduous.— Chamesp" ha- 
eun, A. Gray in Hook. Kew Jou i. 171; Gyroslephinum deet 
lum, Turcz. i in Bull. os 1851, i 
W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 55. 
ost 
SUBTRIBE II. HeLrcHRYsEX.—Flower-heads ege or rarely alm 
sessile but distinct and not forming a compound hea iet 
tubular and hermaphrodite or a few of the outer ones meg the gie? ou 
very slender or rarely larger and irregular or ligulate. 
57. IXODIA, R. Br. 
Involuere ovoid, the bracts imbricate, appressed, dry and g! 
inner ones with white te spreading laminæ. Receptacle shortly co 
scales closely rolled round each floret. Florets all tubular, 
utinous, | the S 
hermaphroditė 
