HeJiptcnnn.] LXV. COMPOSITE. 833 



Flower-heads, in the original form, in a rather loose terminal leafless corymb, 

 with a few small scarious bracts on the branches and peduncles. Involucre 

 turbinate, about 3 lines long without the ray, the outer bracts wholly scarious, 

 broad, obtuse, slightly woolly-eiliate, the inner with linear or cuneate claws, 

 woolly towards the top and radiating petal-like white laminaa, about 2J lines long. 

 Florets all hermaphrodite, but some of the central ones usually sterile. Achenes 

 densely silky- villous. Pappus of about 15 to 20 plumose bristles. — Sond, in 

 Linnea, xxv. 519. 

 Hab.: Southern downs ; from thenoe to the Flinders Biver. 



10. H, pygmseum (small), Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 647. An annual, branch- 

 ing from the base, diffuse or erect, 2 to 6in. high, slightly woolly or at length 

 glabrous. Leaves narrow-linear, almost filiform. Flower-heads not very nume- 

 rous, sessile in dense terminal leafy corymbs or clusters. Involucre narrow, 

 about 4 lines long, the bracts brown, scarious, obtuse and appressed, the inner 

 ones with small white ovate radiating tips. Florets 4 to 6, all hermaphrodite, 

 but about half in the centre sterile, the corolla very slender. Achenes densely 

 silky- villous. Pappus of numerous plumose bristles. — fteropogon pyi)mcBus, DC. 

 Prod. vi. 245 ; A. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 267 ; P. australis, Nees in 

 Linnaa, xvi. 223. 



Hab.: Southern localities. 



11. H. moschatum (Musk-scented), Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 648. Annual or 

 perhaps sometimes perennial with a creeping rhizome. Stems erect or decum- 

 bent at the base, J to l^ft. high, densely woolly as well as the foliage. Lflwer 

 leaves petiolate, obovate or spathulate, the upper ones lanceolate or oblaneeolate 

 and stem-clasping. Flower-heads small and numerous, nearly sessile in dense 

 corymbose or almost globular clusters. Involucres ovoid, scarcely 2 lines long, 

 the bracts scarious, varying from a rich brown to pale straw-colour, without 

 spreading tips, densely woolly inside at the base. Florets in all the specimens 

 examined 2 or 3, all hermaphrodite and fertile. Achenes narrow-oblong, con- 

 tracted at the base, smooth and glabrous, but so closely enveloped in . the long 

 intricate surrounding wool that it is difficult to extract them. — Gnaphalinm 

 moschatum, A. Cunn. in DC. Prod. vi. 2S6 ; Calocephakis gnaphalioides, Hook, in 

 Mitch. Trop. Austr. 378 ; Monencyanthes gnaphalioides, A. Gray in Hook. Kew 

 Journ. iv. 230. 



Hab.: Southern downs. 



The species has something of the aspect of Gnaphalium bUeo-album. 



12. H, dimorpholepis (bracts two-formed), Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 650. An 

 annual with erect or ascending branching stems, green, with a few long hairs, 

 but scarcely any wool. Learves linear, rather broad, ^ to lin. long. Flower- 

 heads small, sessile within a few floral leaves exceeding the head, terminal or 

 sometimes lateral. Involucre broadly ovoid, above 2 lines long, the outer bracts 

 lanceolate, scarious, fringed with long cilia, the inner with rigid glandular claws 

 and small scarious tips not spreading. Eeceptaole conical. Florets rather 

 numerous, exceeding the involucre, a few of the outer ones female. Achenes 

 glabrous. Pappus of about 3 or 4 plumose-eiliate bristles, more or less flattened 

 and scale-like, the outer achenes, especially those of the female florets, often with- 

 out any pappus, and the innermost usually a,bortive. — Dimorpholepis australis, A. 

 Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 227 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 856 ; Triptilodiscus pygmmis, 

 Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1851 ii. 66 ; Duttonia sessiliceps, F. v. M. in Linnsea, xxv. 

 410. 



Hab.: St, George, /, Wedd ; also on the Darling Downs, F. i, Mxteller. 



