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paratively large, often conspicuously stalked ; involucral 

 bracts of unequal length ; lamina of ray-flowers rather 

 long- extended, generally bluish ; pappus of marginal 

 flowers consisting of capillary disconnected hairlets, that 

 of the central flowers much reduced, partly scale-like. 



M. leptophylla. 



ERXG-BRON. 



1351. Headlets of flowers several in a panicle. 



Tall perennial sub-alpine plant, branched and nearly 

 glabrous ; leaves from broad-linear to lanceolar, the 

 lower elongated and distantly denticulated ; involucral 

 bracts very narrow, much pointed ; ray-flowers in about 

 two rows, whitish ; fruits scantily beset with hairlets. 



E. conyzoides. 



Headlets of flowers singly terminal ... ... ... 1352 



1352. Stems branchless. 



Perennial, but quite herbaceous, never tall, here alpine ; 

 radical leaves from obovate- to linear-lanceolar, entire or 

 somewhat denticulated ; stem-leaves much reduced in 

 number and size; involucral bracts mostly linear-lanceolar; 

 ray-flowers in about two rows, the expansions generally 

 violet; fruits glabrous. E. pappochromus. 



Stems branched. 



Coast-plant, slightly woody, never tall, generally ascending 

 or diffuse ; leaves very small, narrow-linear ; ray-flowers 

 in several rows ; bristlets of pappus comparatively few, 

 slightly plumous. E. minurioides. 



VITTADINIA. 



1353. Fruits streaked, shorter than the pappus. 



Perennial herb, finally somewhat woody, usually rather 

 dwarf and much beset with hairlets ; branches leafy ; 

 leaves often small, from spatular-obovate to narrow- 

 linear, entire or somewhat indented or even incised, their 

 upper end often folded inward ; ray-flowers sometimes 

 reduced to two rows, often bluish ; stigmas pointed ; 

 pappus-bristlets rather long, occasionally slightly plumous; 

 fruits somewhat elongated, beset with short hairlets. 



V. Australis. 



