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ISOETOPSIS. 



1496. Stemless, the flower-headlets crowded and sessile 



within tufts of very narrow radical leaves. 



Quite dwarf ; leaves comparatively long ; headlets of flowers 



small, their involucral bracts rather few ; marginal flowers 



devoid of stamens ; fruits of central flowers imperfect and 



almost destitute of any pappus. I. graminifolia. 



GNAFXXAXiODES. 



1497. Pappus-bristlets rigid, compressed, conspicuously cilio- 

 lated. 



Very dwarf, extensively beset with short greyish vesti- 

 ture ; stems very short and prostrate or undeveloped ; 

 leaves small, mostly from spatular to obovate, flat, 

 some opposite, the uppermost with their flower-headlets 

 forming depressed clusters ; headlets few together or 

 two or rarely solitary, their outer involucral bracts 

 pale, from lanceolar to ovate and spreading, inner 

 appressed and blunt, all coherent by intricate vestiture ; 

 flowers of each headlet numerous ; bristlets of pappus 

 occasionally six ; fruits glabrous. G. uliginosa. 



1498. Pappus-bristlets plumously ciliolated. 



Rather robust, extensively beset with cottony or glandule- 

 bearing hairlets ; stems usually branchless ; leaves much 

 elongated, from lanceolar- to broad-linear, the stem- 

 leaves sessile, the uppermost generally terminated by 

 a petaloid-bracteal apex ; flower-headlets forming large 

 clusters, often somewhat stalked ; involucral bracts of 

 headlets broadish, shining, transparent, fringy-ciliolated ; 

 flowers several or numerous within each involucre ; fruits 

 densely beset with silk-like vestiture. Figure 86. 



(Myriocephalus Stuartii. ) "P. Stuartii. 



CRASFEDIA. 



1499. Clusters of flower-headlets often from two to five 



together. 



Scantily beset with somewhat cottony vestiture, mostly 

 branchless ; leaves flaccid, from narrow-lanceolar to 

 almost linear, the lower rather long ; clusters of flower- 

 headlets from ovate to globular ; general involucre rather 

 conspicuous; general receptacle cylindrical; flowers from 



