Victorian Plants. 321 



HELICHRYSU1VI. 



1445. Quite or almost herbaceous ... ... ... 1446 



Quite shrubby ... 1458 



1446. Involucral bracts forming a ray ... ... ... 1447 



Involucral bracts forming no ray ... ... ... 1456 



1447. Involucral ray usually yellow or somewhat brownish 1448 

 Involucral ray white or somewhat reddish ... ... 1450 



1448. Involucral bracts smooth. 



Usually rather tall and robust, glabrous or scantily 

 beset with hairlets, though often minutely rough; stem 

 branchless or sparingly branched ; leaves long, from 

 elliptic-lanceolar to linear or the lower occasionally 

 cuneate-obovate, mostly recurved along the margin ; 

 flower-headlets large, terminal, solitary or two or few 

 near together, almost hemispherical, often supported 

 by one or more floral leaves ; involucral bracts broad, 

 rigid, shining, yellow or outside reddish-brown, rarely 

 whitish, the majority soon spreading, the form of the 

 lower gradually passing into that of the upper ; fruits 

 glabrous. Principal " Everlasting." H. lucidum. 



Involucral bracts wrinkled or crisped ... ... 1449 



1449. Involucral bracts comparatively large. 



Somewhat tall, partly beset with cottony hairlets ; stems 

 often branchless ; lower leaves from spatular- to narrow- 

 lanceolar, the upper gradually broad-linear and shortened, 

 the ultimate bract-like ; headlets of flowers almost hemi- 

 spherical, singly terminal ; involucral bracts lax, yellow 

 or the outer reddish-brownish, very exceptionally white, 

 the inner forming rather suddenly a short ray ; some of 

 the marginal flowers without stamens ; fruits glabrous. 



H. scorpioides. 

 Involucral bracts comparatively small. 



Never tall, partly beset with somewhat cottony hair- 

 lets ; stems often branched and not rarely depressed ; 

 leaves from elliptic-lanceolar to gradually broad-linear, 

 frequently recurved at the margin ; headlets of flowers 

 relatively small, almost hemispherical, singly terminal ; 

 involuci-al bracts lax, tender-membranous, yellow or 

 the outer red-brownish, the inner forming a very short 

 ray ; some of the marginal flowers pistillate only, with 

 a rudimentary or without any pappus ; fruits glabrous. 



H. rutidolepis. 



