658 LXII. COMPOSITA. [ Erechthites. 
florets, the outer ones rarely yd dilated, but not really ligulate, and in S. brachyglossus 
asingle row of minute but distinetly-mar ked ligule, without any filifo rm female florets. 
eek etym lace 
e species are Rémi difficult to limit we any e tangible characters, ën re- 
um 
Ste an esl of 8 to 10 bracts. Plants without wool, 
labro 
Annual. Ss "boli or lobed 1. E prenanthoides. 
1 tereh Leaves once- twice- or  thrice- pinnatifd, with linear : 
. 9. E. Atkinsome. 
Tayler of. about 12 bracts, Plants usually more or less cottony- 
oolly or scabrous-hirs 
Feste Lee rtoithel lobed « or divided. Involucres above 3 lines 
ng aa - chenes short. Annual, often hard at the ior (rarely 
) 3. E. arguta. 
Leaves deeply lobed. or divided. "Tnvolueres about r lines long. 
S 4, E. mixta. 
s bos ar, mostly ‘etitjre: Achienes ratber long, sometimes ; : 
ted into a short beak. ja nial 5. E, quadridentata. 
"ei of about 15 to 20 bracts. es lin near, ‘entire toothed o SEN ` 
pinnatifid. Achenes often cnet at the top. Perennial. . 6. E. hispidula. 
F. Mueller informs me that a Muelleri, was published by ong in the seed-catalogue 
of sue Copenhagen garden for eon It is entirely unknown to 
H 
1. E. prenanthoides, DC. Prod. vi. 296. An erect herb, SE 
annual, of 1 to 3 e Sayd pobon us always dp wool. 
Flower-heads numerous in a 0086 rminal e corymb. Involucres — 
eam about, 3 lines long, of about 8 or very ac? a few of 10 or 11 very ` 
narrow bracts. Female florets ës 12 to 15, hermaphrodite about half as 
many. Achenes angular, slightly hirsute or nearly glabrous, much shorter 
than in Æ. quadridentata and not contracted at the top. ace: k. f. Fl. Tasm. 
i. 218; Senecio prenanthoides, A. Rich. Sert. Ast rol. 96; also probably 
E. sonchoides, DC. Prod. vi. ak and Senecio flaccidus, A. ein, Sert. Astrol. 
110, from the characters give 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown and others ; rane Zei? 
Victoria. Wendu berks BEA Dando Ranges and Gipps’ d, F. ele? 
Pe wo: Kent’s R. Brown ; margins of streams in cool shady places, J. 
The pee is also in 
ew Zealand airs. Leave — 
ar. picridioides.. Tall and stout, r more or less scabrous with short scattered hairs og 
larger and denne coarsely lobed. trem involucres and florets of the dum form. 
E. picridioides, Turcz. in Bull Mose i. 200. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Se n. 132. 
. Atkinsonisz, F. Muell Fragm. v. 88. An erect glabrous hen ei | 
several feet we closely allied to Æ. pa with the same sma" ` 
racts are more Gem Er 10 and sometimes 11 or 12, and the ; 
florets rather more numerous than in E. prenanthoides. 
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