Victorian Plants. 63 



COIMFOSITAE. 



309. Corollas of all the flowers from a tubular base flatly 



expanded (ligulate). (Also many immigrated weeds.) 

 Herbs with somewhat tuberous roots ; leaves all basal, 

 denticulated or lobed ; headlet of flowers singly ter- 

 minal ; involucre rather large, but comparatively narrow; 

 corollas all yellow ; pappus-bristlets flattened, much 

 pointed. Microseris. 1328 



Corollas of all the flowers tubular to near the summit, 

 or corollas of the marginal flowers from a tubular 

 base flatly expanded (ligulate), forming a corollar, 

 not an involucral, ray to the flower-headlet, the rest 

 of the flowers tubular to near the summit ... ... 310 



310. Fruit very inequilateral, almost dimidiated. 



Perennial herb, never large ; leaves basal, broad, indented 

 or incised ; involucral bracts in more than two rows ; 

 marginal flowers uniseriate, their corollas from a tubular 

 base flatly expanded ; corollas of the rest of the flowers 

 tubular to near the summit, of all flowers yellow; pappus 

 absent or its bristlets abbreviated. Cymbonotus. 1329 



Fruit almost or quite equilateral ... ... ... 311 



311. Leaves all or mostly opposite. (Exception: Glossogyne 



partly) ... 312 



Leaves scattered or basal ... ... ... ... 316 



312. Corollas of all the flowers tubular to near the summit. 



Herbs, mostly annual ; leaves rather or quite broad, in- 

 dented ; flower-headlets small, paniculated ; involucral 

 bracts herbaceous ; pappus-bristlets three to five, hair- 

 like, rigid, glandular-tipped. Adenostemma. 1330 



Corollas of the marginal flowers from a tubular base 

 flatly expanded, the rest of the flowers tubular to 

 near the summit ... ... ... ... ... 313 



313. Pappus consisting of spinules... ... ... ... 314 



Pappus absent or rudimentary ... ... ... 315 



