D 
595 LXII. COMPOSITJE. [Millotia. 
5-toothed. Anthers with fine, usually ciliate-plumose tails. Style-branches 
terminating in a very short cone. Achenes cylindrical, contracted into a 
slender beak. Pappus of fine berbeliate or ciliate pni bristles. Se? 
nnua 
The genus is limited to Australia. It differs from ry an unten and JVailzia in the in- 
voluere, from other el in the slender beak of the ac 
Pappus as long as the corolla, scarcely barbellat 2s. s 1. M. tenuifolia. 
Pappus shorter ina Ee corolla, t the bristles EE with a few 3 
EE "3. M. Greeves. 
T. M. deg, Cass.; DC. Prod. vi. 161. A slender erect annual, 
of 2 to 6 in. or rather more, simple or branched, hoary or white with close 
or ire hairs, or becoming almost o. Leaves narrow-linear, or the 
h minute coloured tips. Florets 20 to 30, longer than the involucre. 
Achenes papillose or almost muricate, the slender beak. very variable in length, 
be pappus of very shortly barbellate capillary bristles. —Steetz in Pl. Preiss. 
456; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 209; Sond. in Linnea, xxv. ; Senecio 
yoni Kee Benth. in Hues. Enum. 66 ; Millotia myositidi dë Steets in 
PLP i. 457; M. glabra and M. robusta, Steetz, l. c 
pen Piper’s Hill, Fraser ; Mallee scrub, Victorian ae D 
Vict About SE e, Adamson ; Bod n river and in the Grampians, 
Mode ; Nimes De llach 
essem Port Dalry: m R. Brown ; common in dry stony places, J. D.. 
ustralia. Fiedler's Section, Behr ; from the Murray to St. Vincent's and Gë? 
E $ Mueller and others. 
W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, and thence to Swan River, Huegel, 
Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 365, Preiss, n. 66, 67, 68, 100, and others; Murchison 
peor eastward to the Great Bight, Marwel 
. M. Greevesii, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 18. t. 19. A slender ud 
diffuse annual, under 6 in. high, more or less woolly-white or at length pr 
We except ‘the D ue. Leaves filiform. Involucres about 23 d 
long, the braets about 8 to 10, linear, with fine points, but densely cottony 
to the end. Vico usually fewer than in M. tenuifolia, longer than the in ls 
luere. Achenes slender, with long beaks. Pappus sho rter thap the com 
the bristles day fine, ciliate-plumose with fine long hairs. 
N. S. Wales. Desert near the Barrier Range, Beckler. 
n river, 
69. IXIOLJZENA, Benth. 
ndn campanulate or hemispherical, the bracts num vall a 
narrow linear-lanceolate, herbaceous or rigid, the inner ones with sm 
rious or coloured + sometimes radiating. Receptacle flat or convex, a very 
out scales, Florets all hermaphrodite, tubular, 5-toothed, or rarely @ 
few outer ones Saale and filiform. Anthers with long fine ils, wn 
branches slender, capitate or truncate at the end. Achenes pm x 
not beaked. Pappus of fine capillary bristles, entire or shortly barbe 
