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5-toothed. Anthers tailed. Style-branches truncate. Achenes without any 
pus.—Erect shrub. Leaves alternate, entire. Flower-heads rather small, 
in terminal corymbs. 
___ The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia, It is very near e 
| differing only in the involute scales of the receptacle and in the want of auy pap 
_ lI achilleoides, R. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 1 534. An erect wësse us 
i and glutinous shrub. Leaves a or slightly spathulate, usually 
ame an mostly above 1 in. long, more or less decurrent on the stem 
Flower-heads in a dense terminal ee mb, very much reonmbling: those of an 
Achillea, the white petal-like radiating latninee of the inner involucral Leg: 
imitating the ray-florets of that genus. Involucre without the ray, 2 to 3 
lines long, the outer bracts closely appressed, glut inous, with green centres 
and often slightly ent Seales of the receptacle jagged at the end and the 
long-cylindrieal, slightly papillose-pubescent.—DC. Prod. vi. 154; Sond. in 
Linnea, xxv. 495 ; Z. ptarmicoides, F. Muell. in Lines, xxv. 405 ; I. alata, 
Schl lecht. in Linn, xx. 493 ; Sond. l. e. xxv. 495 
Mier Rocky places in the nous F. Mueller; common at the mouth of the 
: Glenelg towards Portland, Robertson To 
i 4h tralia. Memory Cove an 1 Port Lincoln, R. Brown ; rocky places, chiefly near 
e le coast, i, fro m the Murray iei St. Vincent’s and Spencer's s gulfs, and Kangaroo Island, F. 
j lie Wilhelmi , and seg 
There are uilig two Men of which the extremes look very different, J. achilleoide : 
with narrow leaves, obtuse or with recurved Late not very decurrent, and with small 
flower-heads, and È alata, with broader more acute and more decurrent leaves et — 
: lover-heads, but there are en, specimens s iiy referable to the one or to the other 
58. AMMOBIUM, R. Br. 
.. Involuere hemispherical, the bracts either petal-like and spreading or sca- 
ous and more appressed. Receptacle more or less convex with flat or 
‘lightly concave scales between the weg Florets all tubular, —€— 
les produced into 2 or 4 unequal teeth or short awns.—Herbs more or less 
- White-tomentose. Leaves entire. Flower-heads solitary, terminating the 
` Stem or branches 
ur The genus is limited to Australia. 
luvoluera] bracts» white petal-like, spreading, longer than the 
Ka ts. Stem win. BEE ng + Ae Se 
EM braets sc agged or waiduláte, shorter than the "T 
Tels. Stems uem Greet, Leaves shortly decurrent. 2. 4. craspedioides. 
l. A. alatum. 
. Ll A. alatum, R. Br. in Bot. Mag. t 9459. An erect, branching, 
: M ntoh herb, attaining 2 or 3 ft., the stems bordered by wings de- 
trent from the margins of the leaves. Radical leaves lanceolate, several 
Mehes "eg narrowed - into a long petiole ; stem-leaves small and distant. 
Tuvolueral bracts in many rows, spre eading to about 3 in. diameter, the white 
_ Petal-like laminæ broadly ovate, the inner ones 4 in. long on very short claws, 
Li 
