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out scales. — Florets of the circumference in a single row (sometimes very 
bai, female ligulate, tia Spe or, if tubular, usui cae than the others ; 
erbs, either annual or perennial. Leaves alternate, entire. 
on terminal peduncles, the ray-florets rine white 
Besides the Australian species, which are endemic, there are six from S. Africa, the com- 
monest of which, 4. capensis, is nearly allied to the Australian p australis. The genus is 
readily known by its involucre, different from that of all other Helichrysea, although ap- 
Moaching that of Lriolena. From the latter genus it differs chiefly in the female florets 
either d or enlarged, as in Podolepis 
he circumference ligulate. 
E batis barbellate on nly or denticulate. . . . . . . . L A. australis. 
Pappus-b air woar? plumose in the upper half. 
Involucre } in ch meter, befend vUW a a EE deii, TT 
Bi cinere 3 in. diameter ore, very woolly 3. A. multiceps. 
Forets of the cir Aes few, tubular, tester or filiform. Pappus- 
al 
bristles sateen the upper half. 
Stems 1 leafy, cott iè ppe CUSUM. a. stricta, 
whi 
Stems very dior; Fees with long slender leafless peduncles wv B. A. tenella. 
| LA. austr alis, Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 482. An erect corymbosely 
branched a amen attaining 1 ft. or-rather more, sprinkled with white septate 
. vel linear or Tinear-lanceolate, stem-clasping at the base, mostly 
1. long. Flower-heads rather large, few, in a loose terminal corymb, 
| Wading 3-toothed ligulæ of 4 t gg nes. Teen short, SR) or 
li ‘lightly glandular-papillose. Pioi of ii 10 to 13 bristles, as long as 
lla, barbellate but scarcely plumose.—Asteridia pulverulenta, Lindl, 
. App. 24. 
Con Australia. Princess at Harbour, R. Brown n River, Drummond, 1 
b» Fraser, Preiss s, n. 65; Geographe Bay and id river, Oldfield ; bnc: A 
Cape Le Grand, Ma.rire!l.— The diee is nearly allied to the S. African 4. capens 
is, Benth. A slender annual, slightly woolly- d or 
neeolate. Flo e 
Reie ts not numerous, with lig about 3 lines. E. 
A 3 to 6 bristles, elegantly plumose in dee b. half,—Asteridia gracilis, 
S Lë: Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 214. 
Zeen, Drummond. 
Ü multiceps Benth. Stems numerous 3 to 6 in. high, rather 
n i for their size, with scaly hairs mixed with a white cottony wool. Radical 
* De" (blong-spathulate, the others linear-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, mostly 
Lin. long. Flower-heads rather large, few but corymbose. — Involucre 
