636 LXll. COMPOSITAE. [ Waitzia. 
2. W. aurea, Sieetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 452. An erect annual with the 
habit and linear scabrous-pubescent or almost glabrous leaves of W. corym- 
osa. ower-heads rather larger and fewer in a looser corymb. Involucre 
golden-yellow or tinged with brown, the bracts gradually passing from the 
sessile outer to the stipitate inner or intermediate ones, but more rigid, obtuse 
or acute but not acuminate, distinctly exceeding the florets, not descending 
along the peduncle but usually, especially when young, closely surrounded 
by 2 or 3 small linear floral leaves. Achenes with the long slender beak and 
simple pappus of W. corymbosa, except that the bristles are sometimes bar- 
bellate or ciliate-plumose quite at the base.— Leptorhynchus aureus, de in 
ueg. Enum. 64; DC. Prod. vi. 161; Morna nitida, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 
1941 (?) (referable perhaps to W. corymbosa). 
W. Australia. n River and werde: districts, Huegel, Drummond, \st Coll. n. 
333, and 5th Coll. ee Gänge n. 2, 4, 5, and others; Blackwood and Bowes rivers 
and Champion B ge Oldfie ld ; Rück Bay, Marten ; South coast, Bazter; S.W. Bay 
and Middle Mount Barren, O/ ldfield. 
3. W. nivea, Benth. An erect annual with linear scabrous-pubescent 
or almost glabrous leaves and rather large flower-heads Fig few in a loo 
corymb as in JF. aurea, the involucres surrounded by a fi w floral leaves as in 
that species of which it may be a variety, with the eee bracts of a e? 
white or pink or very rarely with a very pale yellowish tinge, they are also 
rigid, more frequently acute, though not acuminate as in W. c orymbosn, i 
almost herbaceous linear claws are more conspicuous, and the florets are 
longer in proportion to the involuere. Achenes and pappus as in W. aun 
—Morna nivea, Lindl. E Reg. 1838, t. 9; Leptorhynchus aus 
Benth. i n Hueg. Enum. 64; DC. Prod. vi. 160; Waitzia odontole rcz. 
iu Bull. Moan 1851, ii. ^R W. corymbosa, Steetz in Pl. Preiss. E p not 
of Wendland. 
"^. Au eiry others, and thence to 
River, Drumm d, Uat Col H 2 845 Col. x. [x 383; : Preiss, n. 12, 13, and ne 
and "eeng river, Oldfield, Drummond, 6th Coll 8. 
Helichrysum rigidulum, DC. e vi. 193, d Ke from a fragment communicate Y 
Sweet, which I have not seen, is robably this ipee. of which a single flower-head, pond 
~ Pieris. ng the achene and me might be taken almost for “that of Helichry 
nophorum 
W. Ste eetziana, Lehi. in PI. Preiss. i. 454. An erect annual, y 
slender than the preceding species and pech? always under 1 ft. high, a 
brous or with a little loose wool. Flower-heads solitary or in loose een in. 
smaller than in the dien: species. Involucres hona pe about + Se 
diameter, varying from a pure white to a pale or bright yellow, kr o 
dw d broad, obtuse or sitas aeute, without external floral eo ion. 
ually from the outer sessile t to the inner ones n rather "oct 
Porte much smaller than in W. nivea. Achenes aa papillose, eg 
into a slender beak, usually very short at the time of oe d 
lengtheued when the achene is ripe, sometimes to twi im 
own E Pappus bristles short, strongly birbellite or P shortly unas 
> a, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5342, and W. dasycarpa, Tur pynehus 
Uai 1881. ii. 77 (both with long beaks to the achenes) ; Leptorhy" 
mose —— 
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