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Clusters of headlets supported by floral leaves. 



Dwarf, imperfectly beset with somewhat cottony vestiture ; 

 leaves mostly linear ; flower-headlets forming yellow 

 shining short -cylindric spikes ; involucral bracts generally 

 four ; flowers usually two within each involucre ; pappus 

 almost placed laterally, producing one slightly fringed 

 scalelet, with a solitary or without any capillary 

 elongations. A. pleuropappus. 



1490. Clusters of headlets gradually much attenuated to- 

 wards their base. 



Annual, dwarf, scantily beset with somewhat cottony 

 vestiture ; branches capillary-slender ; leaves very short, 

 from ovate- to linear- cuneate ; clusters of headlets 

 unsupported by floral leaves, forming almost club-shaped 

 yellow or brownish shining spikes ; involucral bracts 

 four to six ; flowers one to three within each involucre ; 

 pappus reduced to a minute ring. A. pusillus. 



Clusters of headlets slightly attenuated towards their 

 base. 



Annual, very dwarf, scantily beset with somewhat cottony 

 vestiture ; branches capillary-slender ; leaves very short, 

 from elliptic to linear ; involucral bracts only three ; 

 flowers usually two within each involucre ; clusters of 

 headlets unsupported by floral leaves, forming very short 

 ovate- or cylindric-ellipsoid yellow or brownish shining 

 spikes ; pappus absent. A. teiielliis. 



SK.IRROPKORUS. 



1491. Floral leaves from ovate- to narrow-lanceolar. 



Annual, quite dwarf, imperfectly beset with somewhat 

 cottony vestiture ; stem-leaves short, linear, pointed, 

 some opposite ; clusters of flower-headlets capitular ; 

 involucral bracts broadish ; flowers two within each 

 involucre ; pappus reduced to a minutely denticulated 

 ring. ( Angianthus Preissianus. ) S. Freissianus. 



Floral leaves quite linear, recurved-pointed. 



Annual, quite dwarf, imperfectly beset with somewhat 

 cottony vestiture ; leaves all quite short, very narrow 

 and acute, some opposite ; clusters of flower-headlets 

 capitular, often almost ovate ; involucral bracts narrow ; 

 flowers solitary within each involucre ; pappus absent. 



(Angianthus strictus.) S. strictus. 



