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stems, covered by the crowded linear leaves. Flowers in globular umbels 
on axillary peduncle 
The genus is limited to the single species endemic in Australia. 
1. A. Endlicheri, Kunth, Enum. iv. 644.—Stems elongated in some 
specimens to above 1 ft., diffuse. Leaves crowded, linear-filiform, acute, 
N.S. Wales. Fissures of rocks, Blue Mountains, 4. and R. Cunningham, Miss 
Atkinson. 
Tre X. Jounsonrex.—Perianth-segments free or united in a tube 
at the base. Style filiform with a terminal entire stigma. Stock not 
ous. Flowers in dense heads or short spikes, solitary and sessile 
or nearly so within imbricate bracts. 
96. LAXMANNIA, R. Br. 
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n into scarious sheathing appendages, which are often produced 
x: e top into simple or woolly-ciliate bristles. Flowers white or pink, 
th pe or sessile heads, with imbricate scarious bracts, 
me cuter bracts empty usually entire and forming an involucre usually 
orter then the perianths, the inner ones subtending each flower short 
Toy thin and transparent, jagged or fringed on the edge or more fre- 
te divided to near the base into woolly hair-like segments, some- 
TW described as hairs of the receptacle. 
genus is limited to Australia. F. Mueller, Fragm. vii. 88, pro to restore 
qe name of Laxmannia to the Composite vem Petrobium, and to I 8 the present 
name of Bartlingia, but this disturbance of a long-adopted nomenclature 
