^98 LXV. COMIE'OSIT^. [Brachyco>nu. 



or 2 teeth, narrowed at the base. Peduncles very long and slender. Eay-florets 

 white. Involucral bracts rather broadly scarious. Achenes flattened, usually 

 tuberculate, bordered by a rather broad wing, either entire or more frequently 

 broken up into lobes.— ZJ. chrysoc/lossa, F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 44, 

 and in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 148. 

 Hab.: Burnett Biver and Peak Downs, F. v. Mueller ; Bogan River, Mitchell. 



14. B. chrysoglOSSa (ray-florets yellow), F. c. M. Tram. Phil. Vic. i. 44 ; 

 Vict. PI. i. 305. Plant perennial, glandular-pubescent. Leaves elliptic-cuneate, 

 emarginate, mostly at the lower part of the plant. Achenes compressed, bordered 

 by a fringed wing. Pappus conspicuous. 



Hab.: Mount Playfair F. v. Mueller ; St. George, J. Wedd. 



15. B. discolor (two-colored), C. Stuart in Herb. Hook.; Benth. Fl. Aiistr. 

 iii. 520. A glabrous perennial, stems slightly branched and decumbent at the 

 base, ascending to a foot in length or more. Leaves obovate or ouneate-oblong, 

 obtuse, coarsely crenate or pinnatifid, of a firm texture, purple underneath when 

 fresh {G. Stuart), all petiolate. Flower-heads small, on very long peduncles. 

 Involucral bracts narrow. Achenes obovate, flat, often tuberculate, with 

 thickened margins. Pappus conspicuous. 



Hab.: Southern downs country. 



16. B. multifida (leaf much divided), DC. Prat/, v. 306 ; Benth. FL Atistr. 

 iii. 520. A branching, erect or diffuse perennial or undershrub, usually glabrous. 

 Leaves ]Diniiate with linear segments, sometimes entire but more frequently 

 lobed or pinnatifid, sometimes long and narrow, sometimes short and slightly 

 dilated. Flower-heads rather small, on long slender peduncles. Achenes black, 

 narrow, slightly compressed, the sides tubercular, the smooth margins often 

 prominent but not winged. Pappus small. — B. glabra, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 59. 



Hab.: Southern downs country. 



12. MINURIA, DC. 



(From minnrus, small.) 

 (Therogeron, DC; Elaohothaninus, DC; Kippistia, F. v. M.) 

 Involucre ovoid or hemispherical, the bracts narrow, in few rows, dry or 

 scarious on the margin. Eeceptacle without scales. Florets of the ray female, 

 numerous, in several rows, ligulate but very narrow and sometimes short. Disk- 

 florets hermaphrodite, but sterile, numerous or few, tubular, dilated upwards, 

 usually 5-toothed. Anthers obtuse at the base. Style-lobes with obtuse acute 

 or somewhat elongated tips, papillose on the back or the style simple and semi- 

 abortive. Achenes of the ray flattened, with thickened margins, obovate or 

 narrow, those of the disk slender and abortive. Pappus of the ray of numerous 

 capillary bristles, that of the disk variously reduced or more paleaceous. — Under- 

 shrubs or shrubs, glabrous or the young branches woolly or pubescent. Leaves 

 alternate, narrow, entire or toothed. Flower-heads hemispherical or broadly 

 ovoid, pedunculate, solitary or corymbose. Ray-florets usually white. 



The genus is confined to Australia. It is allied to Krigeron, differing chiefly in the abortive 

 diskaohenes, with a reduced or altered pappus.— JBeuf/j. 



Involucral bracts oblong-linear with scarious ciliate margins. Ray- 



achenes very densely silky-hairy I. M. leptophylla. 



Involucral bracts narrow, acute. Ray-achenes glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent. 

 Involucre about 3 lines long. Disk pappus of 5 to 10 bristles, with 



several short ones 2. M. Cmninghamii. 



Involucre not 2 lines long. Disk pappus of fewer bristles than the ray, 

 with several or scarcely any short ones. 



