800 LXV. COMPOSITE. [Minuria. 



toothed. Flower-heads, florets, and achenes of J\[. integerrima, but the disk- 

 pappus more generally accompanied by a few very short bristles slightly dilated 

 at the base. — Thn-of/eron (loitindaiwt, DC. Prod. v. 283. 

 Hab.: Inland f50ulhern localities. 



5. IMC. suaedifolia (Susda-leaved), F. v. M. under Kippistia ; Bentli. Fl. 

 Austr. iii. 4.99. A small bushy shrub or undershrnb, under 1ft. and often under 

 6in. high, glabrous and glaucous. Leaves narrow-linear, nearly terete, under -Jin. 

 long, mostly recurved at the end. Flower-heads small, pedunculate. Involucre 

 hemispherical, 2 to 3 lines diameter, the bracts oblong-linear, eiliolate, in few 

 rows. Ray-florets yellow (F. r. M.), numerous, very little exceeding the invo- 

 lucre ; disk-florets numerous, as long as the involucre. Achenes of the ray flat, 

 with a pappus of rather numerous bristles, the outer ones free, the inner ones 

 more or less connate ; achenes of the disk abortive, the pappus united in a more 

 or less toothed scarious tube. — Kippistia sitmllfoUn, F. v. M. Eep. Babb. Exped. 

 12, and PI. Vict. t. 85 and Fragm. x. 56. 



Hab.: Inland localities. 



13. CALOTIS, E. Br. 



(Pappus-scales of some species ear-shaped.) 



(Huenefeldia, Walp.; Goniopogon, Turcz.; Cheiroloma, F. u. M.) 

 Involucre usually hemispherical, the bracts in about 2 rows, nearly equal, 

 broad or narrow, with dry or scarious margins and usually a few inner narrow 

 bracts. Eeeeptacle flat or convex, without scales. Florets of the ray female, 

 ligulate, often numerous, but in a single row. Disk-florets numerous, apparently 

 hermaphrodite but sterile (except in C. hispidida), tubular, 5-toothed. Anthers 

 obtuse at the base. Style-branches in the disk-florets somewhat flattened or 

 almost filiform, usually obtuse, papillose outside at the end. Fruiting-heads 

 usually globular. Achenes of the ray flat, obovate or oblong. Pappus of 2 or 

 more barbed bristles, sometimes all short, but more frequently 1, 2 or more 

 growing out into rigid divaricate awns or spines, and accompanied sometimes by 

 2 or more truncate scales. Disk-achenes usually abortive. — Perennial herbs or 

 rarely annuals, with the habit nearly of Brachycome. Leaves alternate, entire, 

 toothed or pinnately divided. Flower-heads pedunculate, the rays white, rarely 

 blue or purple. 

 The genus is confined to Australia. 



Section I. Eucalotis. — Pappus consisting of rigid barbed awns and flat truncate scales. 

 Perennials with leafy stems. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate or oblong, remotely toothed or pinnatifid. 



Scales of the pappus usually united in a cup : awns 1 or 2 . . . . 1. C dente-x. 

 Leaves cuneate or spathulate, toothed at the end. Scales of the pappus 



2 or 3, alternating with the awns. Plant not glandular 2. C cuneifolia. 



Section II. Cymbarla. — Pappns consistinci of 2 or more rigid awns, dilated and united at 

 the base, without scales. Perennials with leafij stems, sometimes ajipearing annual. 



Awns of the pappus 2, almost boat-shaped at the base. Plant usually 



• pubescent or hirsute 3. C. cymbacantha. 



Awns of the pappus several, united in a glabrous cup at the base. Stems 

 elongated, glabrous or nearly so 4. C. erinacea. 



Section III. Acantharia. — Pappus consisting of several unequal awns, all distinct and 

 usually hispid at t/jc base, sometimes all short. 



Achenes not winged. Perennials. 



Stock emitting stolons or creeping rhizomes and a, tuft of radical 

 leaves. Scapes simple or with very few heads. 

 Eadical leaves entire, toothed or lobed. 

 Rhizome creeping. Plant usually hirsute. Eadical and lower 



leaves mostly toothed, Fruiting heads ^in. diameter .... 5, C. s<;abiosifolia. 



