592 LXII. COMPOSITA. 
64. TOXANTHUS, Turcz. 
(Anthocerastes, A. Gray.) 
GE cylindrical, of very few narrow herbaceous nearly equal bracts. 
ceptacle small, without scales. Florets few, hermaphrodite, the corolla 
Pa o 4- or 5-toothed, continuous with the ovary, persistent and recurved. 
Anthers with Ze fine tails. Style-branches with lanceolate Pepe. e 
Achenes cylindrical, tapering at the top, without 
nuals. Leaves alternate, entire. Flower-heads small, sessile or r shortly Be 
dunculate 
The genus is limited to Australia. The style is cig ws more that of che? than of 
apielar, bat the elk irate appears to be quite that of the latter tri 
Involueral bracts recurved after flowering. Achenes radit beaked. 1. T. perpusillus. 
Involucral bracts erect. Achenes eg at the top but scarcely beaked 2. T. Muelleri. 
erpusillus, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1851, i. 177. A little 
slender diffuse annual, either scarcely $ in. long and duds enveloped in 
wool, or mee out to 1 or 2 in. and becoming glabrous. Leaves linear. 
Flower-heads small, atin d in the tufts of leaves, or 2 or 3 together clustered 
at the coda of the bran ches. Involucral bracts 3 to 5, linear, rigid and re- 
eurved as the flowering advances. Corolla 4-toothed, woolly at the base. 
v. 226; So d. in Linnea, xxv. 480. 
vais rer Burra- Burra river and between Hutt and Broughton Sich F. Mueller. 
w. Australia, doped: 4th Coll. n. 203; Murray river, P. Mue 
. T. Muelleri, Benth. A diffuse annual of 3 to 1 in., lightly Kë 
dular-pubescent. Leaves linear. Flower-heads small, termin Invol 
im 13 lines long pt 4 or 5 sen linear-lanceolate with slightly E 
argins. Florets 5 to 10, very slender, 4- or 5-toothed. Achenes terete, 
shortly hirsute, not distinctly beaked but shortly tapering at the top and con- 
tinuous with the recurved corolla, which is usually persistent but sometimes 
at length deciduous. —Anthocerastes Muelleri, Sond. in Linnea, xxv. 480. 
S. Austr Murray river, F. Mueller. 
65. SCYPHOCORONIS, A. Gray. 
Involucre cylindrical, of very few herbaceous nearly equal bra Re 
acle small, without scales, Florets her maphrodite, the ier tubular, 
_5-toothed, deciduous. Anthers with short very fine tails. Style-branches 
with somewhat lanceolate obtuse We en tips. Achenes cylindrical, 
by a short herbaceous persistent cup outside the corolla. —Dwarf rtl 
Leaves ege ate or here and there opposite, entire. Flower-heads sho y 
pedunculat 
The genus is sli mited to a single s ie in Australia, which Turezaninow Wê 
perhaps right in errem b in Ce gn which it i it is closely allied, but dien the 
achene continuous with a herbaceous eup outside the un not with the corolla 
l. S. viscosa, 4. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 225. A little diffuse 
