802 LXV. GOMPOSITiE. [Calotis. 



4. C erinacea (hedgehog-like ; pappus scales very rough), Steetz^ in PL 

 Preiss. i. 424. A glabrous often glaucous perennial, with erect or ascending rigid 

 branching stems of 1 to 2ffc. Leaves not numerous, linear or linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, entire, or the lower ones toothed. Flower-heads of C. lappulacea. 

 Involueral bracts oblong or linear, slightly scabrous, 1 to IJ line long. Eay- 

 florets yellow {F. v. Mueller.) Fruiting-heads 3 to 4 lines diameter. Achenes 

 glabrous, smooth or nearly so, with 3 to 5 awns scarcely barbed and united at the 

 base into a broad open almost cartilaginous cup, often as long as the aehene, and 

 the border sinuate between the awns ; the summit of the aehene within the cup 

 conical with a few minute bristles. 



Hab.: Near Charleyille, J. Henderson. 



5. C> scabiosifolia (Scabiosa-leaved), Sond. and Mtiell. in Linnaa xxv. 

 471 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 503. Hirsute, scabrous or nearly glabrous, the stock 

 densely tufted, with creeping rhizomes or stolons. Badieal leaves petiolate, 

 obovate or oblong, coarsely toothed or pinnatifid or sometimes lyrate, often 2 to 

 3in. long. Stems ascending or erect, f to 1ft. high, simple or slightly branched, 

 with few smaller more sessile and less divided leaves. Involueral bracts ovate, 

 Eay-florets white or purplish. Achenes softly pubescent. Pappus of about 8 

 very rigid awns, 3 or 4 larger ones much thickened at the base and divaricate 

 but very unequal, the alternating smaller ones sometimes minute or wanting. — 

 C. Muelleri, Sond. In Linnsea xxv. 470 (more glabrous with narrower leaves). 



Hab.: Rookhampton and Keppel Bay, Thozet ; Bnrdekin Eiver and desert on the Suttor, 

 F. V. Mueller. 



Several varieties are met with on the inland downs. Therefore I have thought it advisable 

 to give all Mr. Bentham's varieties as it will assist identification. 



Var. lasiocarpa, F. v. M. Leaves more rigid, less toothed. Plower-heads and achenes 



Var. pubescens, F. v. M. Softly villous. Leaves ouneate, toothed at ihe end only. Flower- 

 heads as in the last variety. 



Var. integrifolia, F. v. M. Nearly glabrous. Eadical leaves narrow, mostly linear, rigid, 

 entire ; stem leaves entire or toothed. Flower-heads large. Involueral bracts broad. 



Var. elongata. An apparently etiolated form, the radical leaves 6in. .long or more, with a 

 few remote teeth or lobes. Stems almost filiform, with 1 or 2 long 1-headed branches. 



Var. (?) eaneata, F. v. M. Eadioal leaves ouneate-oblong, more or less toothed. Stems 

 elongated with a few oblong leaves and 1 to 3 flower-heads. 



6. C. scapigera (flower-head on a scape), Hook, in Mitch. Trap. Austr. 75 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 503. A small tufted perennial emitting creeping stolons, 

 glabrous or slightly hairy. Eadical leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, entire or 

 rarely remotely toothed, narrowed into a petiole of 1 to 3in. Flower-stems or 

 scapes simple, longer than the leaves, bearing a few small narrow leaves and a 

 single head very much smaller than in C. scabiosifolia. Involueral bracts broadly 

 oblong. Eay-florets small, whitish. Fruiting-heads about 4 lines diameter. 

 Achenes flat, tubercular or muricate, with 3 to 5 divaricate straight or hooked 

 awns, obversely hirsute and very hairy at the base, and 2 to 5 small soft erect 

 very hairy awns. 



•Hab.: Darling Downs. 



7. C lappulacea (Burr-headed), Benth. in Hueg. Knum. 60, and Fl. Austr. 

 iii. 504. A perennial, sometimes almost woody at the base, with numerous erect 

 or ascending slender branching stems of \ to 1ft., more or less hirsute especially 

 in the lower part, rarely entirely glabrous. Lower leaves oblong-cuneate and 

 often toothed or lobed, upper ones linear and entire, sometimes all under Jin., 

 sometimes those in the middle of the stems |in. long. Flower-heads small, when 

 in fruit scarcely 3 lines diameter. Involueral bracts linear-lanceolate or oblong, 

 ^onietimes slightly cuneate, ciliate and hispid. Eay-florets yellow, small 



