612 _ LXII. COMPOSITA. [Schania. 
1:51; wood um Cor DC. Prod. vi. 216; Scheenia oppositi- 
pou p n Pl. Pre 480; Bot. Mag. t. 4560 ; Pteropogon Cassinianus 
and P. sg Y. "Muell in Linnea, xxv. 415. 
S. Australia. Finke E M Douall Stuart's Expedition ; in the scrub N.E. of 
pr^ Gairdner, Herb. F. Mue 
ustralia. Bee Bay (Geudichand) Champion Bay, Murchison river, Oldfield; 
also eti aaa n. 70, Ro 
15. HELICHRYSUM. 
(Petalolepis and Faustula, Cass. ; Ozothamnus, R. Br. ; Swammerdamia, DC.; Lawre nella, 
Lindl. ; Argyro phaues, Schlecht. ; echter Walp ; Conanthodium, 4. Gray; 
Xa nthochrysum and Argyroglottis, Turez. ; ebe F. Muell.) 
Involucre from broadly hemispherical to narrow- -ovoid or cylindrical, the 
bracts imbricate in several rows, either entirely or their lamine rigidly or 
opaquely scarious or petal-like, more or less spreading or. -rarely appre 
dÉ 
the centre amongst sterile florets). — Florets either all hermaphrodite, tubular, 
and 5- ra -toothed, or a few in the circumference (very rarely 1 or 2 outer 
rows) Ges slender but not longer than the others, a. or 3-toothed, a few 
angular, terete or slightly e compressed, sat pice at the top, 8 
papillose or rarely silky-villous. appus of der bristles simple or mo 
those of the female florets often fewer or ee . . 
eden or shrubs, with leafy stems, usually more or see eent) with cottony 
Leaves alternate or the lower ones very rarely opposite 
Sg yellow, the lamine of the involueral bracts usually W de 
rown or pink, often varying in all these colours with intermediate shades 
in the see species. 
A latge genus — ed in most warm and temperate regions of the globe, vem 
numerous in S. Africa and Australia, but without any cosmopolitan — the Au itis 
ones being all endem siy The limits to S assigned to the group are very uncertain, P ar 
— Vm so many o i Se almos insensible gradations. The radiating ot TET 
female fl enis a ith Athrixia are, in P. Lessoni, P. rutidochlamys ` 
A. tenella , and sometimes in i canescens, but little different from t b 
Lriolena passes into Helichrysum through T. tomentosa and H. podo! de 
i and L. tenui i 
ted from L. atus 
plerum t very poire ër the strongly dae cm pappus of Lawrene SC 
m. one of Chrysoc The more numer female florets of € 
cephalum, and the elastically emm invo See put H. peers and its allies, through 
Helichrysum with Ge lia and through that genus wi the Lugnaphaliea, whilst A 
Wein um and Cephalipterum Da is a gra passage into the Angianthea. . 
many other ifie with other genera of Gnaphaliee way be trace t dlee, 10 
African and northern forms. We are obliged therefore, as in the case of Aster i! 
facto ry 
