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Jlower-headlets on very short stalks. 



Very dwarf, hardly erect, well branched ; some scattered 

 fulcrating rigid root-fibres partly above the ground, 

 originating occasionally far up on the stem; leaves often 

 fascicular, quite short, trigonous-filiform, almost acicular, 

 often somewhat curved and rough ; stipular expansions 

 of the leaf -stalks fringed ; headlets very small, on generally 

 recurved stalks ; outer bracts blunt ; flowers occasionally 

 reduced to two or one ; sepals and petals transparent ; 

 anthers roundish, purplish-black ; fruit globular-ovate, 

 slightly trigonous ; seeds usually three, black outside, 

 without any lustre. B. sessiliflora. 



CAX.ECTASXA. 



1864. Branches hard, closely beset with rigid pungent leaves. 



Root-fibres rigid; leaves from their clasping persistent 

 stalk soon spreading or remaining appressed, somewhat 

 trigonous, occasionally beset with minute hairlets ; flowers 

 sessile ; lower portion of the calyx tubular, densely beset 

 with appressed hairlets ; calyx-lobes and petals almost 

 narrow-lanceolar, somewhat elastic, outside imperfectly 

 invested, occasionally purplish ; filaments hardly as long 

 as the conniving anthers or shorter ; style capillary- 

 filiform ; stigma minute ; fruit glabrous, narrow -ellipsoid, 

 pointed, enclosed in the calyx-tube ; seeds about three 

 times longer than broad. C, cyanea. 



A.LISIVI ACE AE. 

 AXiXSlKA. 



1865. Fruitlets several or many, smooth. 



Usually tall ; leaves large, long-stalked, from lanceolar- 

 to elliptic- or cordate-ovate, their primary venules five to 

 nine, longitudinal, their secondary venules transverse ; 

 flowers rather small, in paniculate whorls ; sepals rather 

 firm ; petals larger, very tender, often somewhat pink ; 

 fruitiets quite small, almost obovate, much compressed. 



A. Plantago. 



DAIKASONXUIK. 



1866. Fruitlets normally nine. 



Usually dwarf ; leaves rather small, conspicuously stalked, 

 from cordate-ovate to lanceolar, their primary venules 

 three or five, longitudinal ; their secondary venules trans- 

 verse ; flowers quite small, whorled in an usually short 

 panicle ; sepals shorter and firmer than the petals ; fruitiets 

 semilanceolar-deltoid. Figure 121. D. Australe. 



