56 ASTERS, DAISIES AND EVERLASTINGS. 
teethed lamina and bearing no perfect stamens; tube of the 
numerous other flowers yellowish, somewhat dilated above the 
middle, and divided at the summit into five short equal lobes ; 
Fic. XXIV. 
Un) 
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Fic. XXIV.—(Aster pannosus).—1, a ray-flower and 
fruit ; 2, a disk-flower and fruit; 3, corolla and cylinder 
of stamens laid open, many times enlarged; 4, pollen- 
grains, the latter magnified 300 times in linear augmen- 
tation. 
filaments free ; 
anthers tipped by 
a lanceolar mem- 
brane, at the 
base not appendi- 
culated ; pollen-~ 
grains spherical, 
covered with 
raised acute 
points ; style 
short - exserted ; 
stigmas  semi- 
cylindric ;_ fruit 
cylindrical, al- 
most + of an 
inch long, finely 
downy, narrowed 
at the base. Bris- 
tles of the pappus 
numerous, placed 
in several rows, 
longer than the 
fruit, rough, the 
outer exceeded by 
the inner ones in 
length. 
On Mount 
MclIvor and a few 
other places of 
the western dis- 
tricts, thence to 
Spencer’s Gulf. 
Asters are dis- 
tinguished from 
