626 LXII. COMPOSITA. [ Helichrysum. 
meration of species, but from the —€— he gave as es as ei his MS. notes, it is 
vident he assigned different limits to it from those which have b ET subsequently adopted, 
for: relying chielly on the shape o of the i inv — e we nur mber of florets (under 20), he 
included H. ramosu i 
it 
views, ing however the limits of the section so as to include the herbaceous species 
contemplated by Brown, as well as a few others which have neither the hemispherical 
lated b 
radiating involuere of Xerochlena, nor the peculiar characters of Chrysoce ephalum. 
. H. Dockerii, F. Muell. (as Acanthocladium). A rigid divaricately 
branched undershrub, very white with a close dense cottony wool, the smaller 
branchlets often spinescent. Leav ëmt: Spier or almost ovate, acute 
n 
clustered. Involuere rather broadly ovoid, 3 to 4 Sie long, the bracts 
straw-coloured or pale brown, opaquely scarious, the outer ones ovate and 
nea pl Geh inner narrow, with glabrous tips not spreading. Florets 
à : 
dium Dockerii, F. Mue I]. Fragm. ii. 156. 
dcn es. Sand hills, (n river, Be is e 
F. M , in the flowers he examined, found n ‘ails to - anthers ; in those I dissected 
the Ge were = ibe long but miley fine and difficult t nd. 
25. gyroglottis, Benth. — shrub, sca i reely 
woolly except the under surface of the leaves. Leaves very shortly petio e 
oblong or linear, obtuse, 4 to 1 in. long, mostly scabrous above and white ` 
Flow ile. 
bracts broadly lanceolate, acute, rigid, with narrow scarlo edges 
appressed, gradually lengthening, the innermost long and narrow, e" om 
radiating tips or laminæ y 3 lines long. Receptacle conical. 410 
glabrous. Pappus of several fine slightly eee bristles. — Argy” Zem, 
turbinata, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1851, i 84. t. 1; Conanthodium 
mondi, A. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 213. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. Suppl. n. 68. Although pue 
ninow, I found prominent tails to the anthers in tnis species as in H. Dock 
DO. Prod. vi. ‘181. Herbaceous and Qe wë viet 
SS by Turcza- 
mosily smaller and sometimes more umerous and all under $ M. P omar? | 
or white underneath. Flower-heads pem in little dense corym»s odi go 
large loose almost leafless panicle. Involuere ovoid, at len h broadly . M. 
panulate, about 2 lines long, slightly woolly, the bracts pr 90 to 
ones with small white or pink speading tips. Florets from 4 
