CompOSit(S^\ FLORA OF TASMANIA L05 
Distrib. Throughout Australia, tropical and subtropical Asia and its Mauds, Polynesia, New /..aland. 
Mauritius, and Madagascar. 
A very common plant in many warm countries; sometimes, especial)} wtaD it gflmi in dry places, possessed 
of pungent properties, causing sneezing when bruised under the nose.- A prostrate creeping weed, (| uifc glabrous, 
with sessile, axillary, rounded, inconspicuous, yellow heads, which arc mam-flow, ml. all but a few central flower* 
being female. Stems 4 inches to a foot long. Leaves |~1J -i h Ion 1 th, 1 r-enneiform. , 
towards the point. Heads i inch broad. Involucre of two scries of linear, blunt, smooth OT pul 
shorter than the flowers. Receptacle convex, papillose, naked or with a few long hairs 
merous, densely packed, Achenium very long, club-shaped, hairy, ribbed or angled. C,,r»Un verj short indeed, 
tubular. Style bifid, exserted. UcrmaphrotVite flowers very l\-\\; in the centre of the capitulum, barren. Corolla 
broadly campanulate, four-cleft. Stamens four. Anth-rs very short. Style exserted, discoid and bitid. (Name 
Gen. XII. SCLEROLKl.UA. , 
sub-4-flora ; floribus omnibus tubulosis ; masculo sulitario. — Fi.. Mas. C:>r«ff,r infundibuli- 
formi-tubulosa, profonde t-dentata, dentibus erectis acutis. 
obscure bilobus. dn&era Lathucnhe, spicibas exsertis, \ 
oribus in, ,i'i „!,!>, r ,1.1, 
Ha.b. Summits of all the Tasi 
cushions, Lawrence, Gunn, etc. — (Fl. 
A very singular little plant, formini 
of Campbell's Island, Trineuron, Hook. 
Australian Alps by Mueller), and Abrot 
belonging to a section or group ot Gimp 
by their perennial stems, their very pee 
odorous. The present is most nearly ; 
voiucral scales and fleets, the densely pi 
Restiacece, and the Oreobolus Pi/milio, Br 
Horn, but is larger, and forms much b 
throughout their length with haves ; tin 
rooting by sending down long, thick, flesl 
