 Bivariiug LXII. COMPOSITA. 657 
the inner ones with recurved horn-like tips. Receptacle without scales. 
Florets few, those of the circumference female filiform, those of the disk very 
few, hermaphrodite, 4- or 5-toothed. Anthers with small fine tails. Style- 
branches terete, truncate. Achenes obovoid- oblong. Pappus none.—Annual, 
with the habit of Gnaphalium 
The genus is limited to a singe species, endemic in Australia, differing from Gnaphalium 
in the absence of the pappus 
. Mue vds Sond. in Linnea, xxv. 522. A small diffuse or slender 
Gang, rarely 6 n. hig e Leaves on long petioles, eech) i e viste 
h Flower- 
. Victoria. Barossa range, San, F. Mue 
S. Australia. Lofty range, Onkaparinga, uix, F. Mueller. 
| Trise IX. SENECIONIDÆ.—Leaves alternate. Flower-heads either he- 
J terogamous, with the female florets ligulate or rarel orm, or sometimes 
homogamous, with all the florets hermaphrodite and tubular. Receptacle 
Without scales. Anthers obtuse or scarcely pointed at the base, without 
{| tails. Style-branches teink and penicillate, or rarely with pubescent wo 
‘r appendages. Pappus of capillary bristles. Involucral bracts in the Aus 
lian genera in a single row, with or without a few small outer ones sont 
83. ERECHTHITES, Rafin. 
(Neoceis, Cass. ) 
: 
illary bristles.— Herbs, annual or perennial. Leaves alternate, entire 
lobed or pinnately divided. Flower-heads in terminal corymbs. 
genus is dispersed over New Zealand and South E" and extends into Africa and 
but belongs chiefly to the southern hemisphere. Of the six Australian vez cien three 
in N 
Candc 
: t th here some mistake, owing probably to 
$ SA Ge, io e ee M, hen aii ded his Æ. ee (a variety of 
| nie vith Senecio brachyglossus. In the numerous specimens I have examined, I ern 
in E. Bathurstiana, DC., and its allies, at least (wo rows of e? vm female 
