Composite.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 
short 
leaves, in the bractese s 
icattered ar 
nongst the capitula, in th 
t numerous involueral 
achenia, and in the longer, n 
lore copiou 
s, and plumose pappus. - 
Rather a rigid, much 1 
high, 
covered with densely appressed ton 
lentum. Branches slender 
, divaricating or tortuoi 
nate, 
appressed, linear, i inch long, blunt, covered with silvery torn 
entum. Glomeruli tern 
in siz 
e, i-f inch diameter, sn 
ow-white. 
(Name from Acvkos. n-hitr 
, and <t>vrov, a plant.) 
Gen. XV. CRASPEDIA, Font. 
Capitula 5-8-flora, homogama, breviter stipitata, in glomerulum subrotundum bracteis sub quoquc 
capitulo sitis cinctum aggregata ; rachis cylindrica, lanata. Rcccptaculum angnstum, raargme pains 
hyalinis onustutn. Involucri squamae hyalinse, elliptical. OorciU tubulosa, 5-dentata. Anther* DM 
setifera3. Stigmata inclusa. Achenium oblongum, villosum. Pappus 1-serialis, setis filiformihus phi- 
mosis.-— Ilerbaa basi perennes ; caulibus SHitimplieiimt, apice ,,»dix, i- Cf pA alit, fa 
alternis, angustis, integer rimis ; glomerulis globosis, jlavis. 
A singular genus, generally easily recognized by its herbaceous, simple, erect sinus, terminated b\ a soft >a i 
of minute yellow flowers. About ten species are known, of which the C. fmbritita, Forst., a native ol N.w Zea- 
land, is the only extra-Australian one : the species are exuvmeh dilln nit oi di-< lamination, ami am not -in 
all those I have described as. lasnianian are really disimet. — Herbaceous, stcmlcs- plani- 
leaves, and single, erect, long scapes, bearing a round, silky, bracteate ball, "Inch con-i-t-ot man\ •'! "' lM -'- 
hairs. Anthers terminated below with two tails. 8fykt mctnded """ K P afnr 
1. Craspedia Richea (Cass. Diet. Sc. Nat. xi. 353) ; parce pilosa, araneo-tomentoai v. glabrata. 
foliis radicalibus spathulatis oblongo-lanceolatis lineari-lanceolatis bjiearibnare, caolinu pauctfl Lraeanbns, 
scapo gracili glabrato.-2?C. Prodr. vi. 152. C. glauca et C. pilosa, Spreng. Sj/st. iii. HI (>/. TiC. 
Prodr.). C. glauca, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1908. Podosperma pedunculare, Back, in Sid. 
384. Eichea glauca, Lab. Toy. i. 187. t. 16, et PL Nor. HAL ii. 123. {Gunn, 117.) 
Variat insigniter statura ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis anguste linearibusve, glabernmis subtomentosi-ve ; 
scapo plus minusve folioso, et diametro glomeruli. 
Var. £. linearis; foliis anguste linearibus laxe araneo-tomentosis. {Gunn, 1160.) 
Var. y. glabrata; casspitosa, parvula, glabrata v. glaberrima, foliis parvis linearibus. U 
Var. 8. gracilis ; tota laxe araneo-tomentosa, foliis anguste hnean-lar.cenlafis l"ngc ; 
gracili, involucri squamis purpureo-cinctis. Pormia init ran - " su ' ur -— 
Linnaa, m. 493. C. gracilis, Nob. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Island, ascending to 4 
Marlborough, Gunn, Var. 8. Middle** Plain*, • ' • (•• *) 
Distrib. South-eastern and South-western Australia (New Zealand " • (< ulmated in ,ng am .) 
A very common and variable plant, of which M ' ' > * nl a fiw sure 
Victoria. One of these so entirely resembles the New Zeal, I ' ■»* ^ ««F ' < * 
all mav prove connected by intermediate forms with that most variable species. IT* far. 7 .- 
form, with small, glabrous, linear leaves; it appears to grow in tufts in alpine suuatmn. The smaller sue and 
slender habit best distinguish this species from the following. 
rocephala (Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3415) ; elata, robusta, glabrata v. glaberrima, 
