648 LXI. COMPOSITE. [ Helipterum. 
often hard and almost woody and showing sometimes a creeping rhizome, 
the stems slender, erect, often exceeding 1 ft., woolly-white or hoary or at 
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usually of a rich shining reddish-brown, rarely pale-coloured, without vie? 
ing tips or wool inside. Florets about 5 or 6, all hermaphrodite and fertile 
or 2 or 3 of the inner ones sterile. Achenes densely silky-villous. Pappus- 
bristles rigid, plumose——Pteropogon spicatus, Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 479; 
. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 268. 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 19, 362; Mount Lehmann, Preiss, n. 24; Champion 
Bay, Toodyay and Murchison rivers, O/dfield. : 
. pallens. Cluster of flower-heads larger, more compound and not so dense, the invo- 
lueres very pale brown, all other characters precisely as in the original form.—He " 
monencyanthioides, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 137.—Tone and Salt rivers, Mazwell. 
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SECTION III. MoNENCYANTHES.—[Inyolucres ovoid, cylindrical or van 
panulate, the bracts scarious or coloured, without any or with very eu 
scarious radiating tips. Achenes glabrous or papillose. Flower-heads often 
very small. 
H. moschatum, Benth. Annual or perhaps sometimes perennial 
. ^ A 14. 
with a creeping rhizome. Stems erect or decumbent at the base, 3 to 12 ft 
wool that it is difficult to extract them — Gnaphalium moschatum, A. Mom 
DC. Prod. vi. 236 ; Calocephalus gnaphalioides, Hook. in Mitch. Trop. deg. 
378; Monencyanthes gnaphalioides, A. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. ? 
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- S. Wales. Molle's Plains, 4. Cunningham, Fraser ; Darling and Murs ZE? 
to the tes E Victorian and other Expeditions. 
ictoria. Wimmera, Dallachy. . Wills 
. Australia. C a, Crystal Brook, Mount Lofty Ranges, F. Mueller; 
Creek, Howitt’s Expedition. ` 
The species has something of the aspect of Gnaphalium luteo-album. 
with 
25. H. pteroc » Benth. An undershrub or small ger? 
slender but rigid divaricate woolly-white branches. „Leaves narro , 
not radiating. Florets 15 to 20, all apparently hermaphrodite. - A 
