Eriochlamys.] LXII. COMPOSITA. 591 
ones herbaceous with revolute margins, the inner ones with broad s scarious 
tacle 
scales. Florets numerous, all hermaphrodite, shader 5-toothed. Anthers 
with very short points or tails. Style-branches broadly truncate. Achenes 
oblong, without any pappus.—Small annual. Leaves alternate, small, entire. 
Flower-heads woolly, sessile, solitary or clustered. 
The ps is Zeie toa single spen es, qp in Australia. Like Pit Mew it ca 
differs from Hum KR ei nvolucre, and the number of florets. 
RE som Koseng: risate. but the "individual heads are EUMD Se 
and always more distinct ed in that subtribe. 
ehrii, Sond. and Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 488. Very much 
Involuere more or less woolly, about 13 lines long. E scarcely exceed- 
ing the BS the corollas often woolly at the 
N. 2 the Lachlan and Darling rivers to sc? Barrier Range, Victorian 
and other Seen 
. Australia. KÉEN Salt Creek and Pine Forest, BeAr; Murray river, Crystal 
Brook, Dombey Bay, F. Mueller ; Port Lincoln, Wilhelmi 
63. ACOMIS, F. Muell. 
Involuere broadly hemispherical, the bracts loosely imbricate, scarious, 
slightly thickened at the base. Receptacle convex, without s cales. Florets 
Numerous, all hermaphrodite, tubular, 5-toothed. Anthers with fine tails. 
Style-branches long, truncate. Achenes oblong or narrow, without any 
pappus.—Erect alendis x Leaves linear, entire. Flower-heads on 
slender terminal pedunc 
The genus is limited to Aus dd A is allied to Rutidosis, with nearly me re invo- 
Inere, differing in the absence of pappus and in the muc uch more distinctly tailed a 
Leaves lanceolate. Corollas not dilat a ics ag ase. Usually woolly . 1. 4. po 
Leaves linear-subulate. - Corollas dilated at the base. Nay ebreos . 9. Am 
osis, F. Muell. Fragm. 1 ji. 89. Er ect, Oe and 
lanceolate or almost ovate-lanceolate, acute, Seed? at the base, 1 to 13 
a. long, losing the wool from the upper side. Involucres about 4 lines dia- 
Meter, ‘the outer bracts ovate, the inner ones oval-oblong.  Florets zeg 
Bes, upwards, but not at the base. Achenes narrow. -_Rutidosis acoma 
ll. le 
N. S: Wales. Hastings river, Beckler. 
?. A. macra, F. — Fragin. iv. 145. Nani glabrous, em stems 
slender, Gegen filifor Leaves linear-subulate, acute, un nder . lo ong. 
Inv volucre about 3 vens diameter, the bracts broadly lanceolate, thickened | in 
the centre but not clawed. Corollas glandular and dilated over the uus 
at the base as in Cotula. Achenes oblong.—Rutidosis macra, F. Muel 
"ueensland, Cape river, Bowman. 
