346 CIV. PROTEACEZE. [ Jsopogon. 
simple and 2 or 3 in. long, but usually once twice or even three times 
bifid or trifid, the segments usually divaricate, with callous or scare reely 
acute points. Cones terminal, sessile or nearly so but almost always 
more or less oblique or cernuous, iM a erect, a T ARa 
2 to 1 in. diameter after flowering. r br pad broad, obtuse or with 
scales, Cone-scales obovate-cuneate, the convex pop imbricate ends 
hairs. cde du very numerous, about } in. long, more or less villous, 
E w tipped with longer hairs. Style-end bibo clavate firi 
241; Jr petro “R. E am Nov. 7 insane with "o or nea i 
all the leaves en re); rnigerus, Lindl. S. R. App. 94 (specimens 
with the leaves but "little "divided). 
eis: ar gla Kin ng George’s Sound AE E districts, frequent, R. Brown 
Queen plains. Preiss, and tos ds Swan river, ponas, 1st coll. (Preiss, n. 662, 
668, 669, 675, and perhaps 68 
Amidst all the frenos of tiago ion simple to much divided, which being some- 
times met with on one and the e bush, cannot serve to characterize Lo 
varieties, this species bod usually be at once recognised by the cernuous heads 
have not observed in any other Jso There are however a few spe ime 7 
which fn character i is not ver decided or e iu which the heads are quite erect, pos ssibly 
from having be à 
Baxt ya of. ii ira hiloides the heads are very cernuous, in thos e of his own collecting 
of I teretifolius they are erect, in all others that I have seen with divided leaves, €X- 
cepting one or two of Preiss’s, they are decidedly cernuous. 
anethifolius, Knight. Prot. 94. An erect shrub of 3 or 4ft. 
aM except the cones. Leaves once or twice pinnate, with rather 
slender terete usually "eo m crowded segments, «n 
gent, often above 1 Cones terminal, sessile 0 
Mene. within the floral jen ,ovoid, globular, 1 Y Ys diameter 07 
uter br acts n but 
rather deep constriction from the bulbous "base wu ‘the brush. sess 
tacle eylindrical—R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 71, Prod. 360; it 
in DC. Prod. xiv epit En anethifolia, Salisb. Prod. 49; Rep. 
pi hs era, Cav. Ic. vi. 33, t. 549; Protea divaricata, Andr. Bot ; 
N. S. Wales. Dot Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, e um 
and many others, 
