Iriotmna.] LXV. C0MP0Sl1?>E. &48 



3. I. tomentosa (cottony), Sond. and Muell. in Linnmt, xxv. 504 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. iii. 598. A branching perennial, erect or decumbent at the base, 

 under 1ft. high, covered with a loose cottony wool which it rarely loses. Leaves 

 mostly lanceolate, mucronulate, rather flaccid, with recurved margins, dilated 

 and stem-clasping at the base, or a few of the lower ones narrowed into a petiole. 

 Peduncles short, leafy. Involucre narrow-campanulate, usually about 4 lines 

 long, the bracts linear or narrowly linear-lanceolate, woolly, the inner ones with 

 small narrow scarious tips, not radiating. Florets numerous, scarcely exceeding 

 the involucre. Achenes angular, rather long, glabrous or slightly hirsute. 

 Pappus of 10 to 20 capillary bristles, barbellate from the base, and as long as the 

 corolla. — Helichrysum Sonderi, F. v. M. in Seem. Journ. Bot. iv. 121. 



Hab,: Southern inland localities. 



36. MILLOTIA, Cass. 



(Origin unknown.) 



Involucre cylindrical or almost ovoid, of few nearly equal narrow bracts. 

 Beceptacle small, without scales. Florets all hermaphrodite, tubular, 4 or 

 5-toothed. Anthers with fine, usually ciliate-plumose tails. Style-branches 

 terminating in a very short cone. Achenes cylindrical, contracted into a slender 

 beak. Pappus of fine barbellate or ciliate capillary bristles. — Small annuals. 

 Leaves alternate, linear. Flower-heads small, on terminal peduncles. 



The genus is limited to Australia. It differs from Leptorhynchus and Waitzia i<i the 

 involucre, from other Gnaphaliate in the slender beak of the achenes. — Benth. 



1. n/I. Greevesii (after Dr.' A. Greeves), F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 18 t. 19; Betith. 

 Fl. Austr. iii. 596, A slender erect or diffuse annual, under 6in. high, more or 

 less woolly-white or at length glabrous, except the inflorescence. Leaves filiform. 

 Involucres about 2^ lines long, the bracts about 8 to 10, linear, with fine points, 

 but densely cottony to the end. Florets usually fewer than in M. temdfolia, 

 longer than the involucre. Achenes slender, with long beaks. Pappus shorter 

 than the corolla, the bristles very fine, ciliate-plumose with fine long hairs. 



Hab. Southern inland localities. 



87. RUTIDOSIS, DC. 

 (Bracts wrinkled.) 

 (Pumilo, Schlechl.; Aotinopappus, A. Gray.) 

 Involucre hemispherical or ovoid, the bracts loosely imbricate, broad, very 

 scarious, the inner ones with a broad more rigid base. Keceptacle convex or 

 small, without scales. Florets all hermaphrodite, tubular, 4 or 5-toothed. 

 Anthers very shortly or not at all tailed. Style-branches truncate. Achenes 

 oblong or obconical, scarcely compressed. Pappus of several chaffy scales entire 

 jagged or divided into bristle-like lobes. — Annual or perennial herbs, usually 

 woolly-tomentose. Leaves alternate, entire. Flower-heads terminal, pedun- 

 culate or rarely in small dense cymes. 



The genus is limited to Australia. The involucre ia much like that of Podolepis, in other 

 respects the genus is allied to Helichrysum, but difEers from both in the scale-like pappus. — 

 Senth. 



Annuals or perennials, erect, branching, and cottony. Leaves not decur- 

 rent. Pappus-scales undivided. 

 Anthers much exserted. Pappus-scales 5 to 7, spathulate, quite entire. 



Flowers yellow 1. R. helichrysoides. 



Anthers not exserted. Pappus-scales about 10. 

 Flowers white. Pappus-scales cuneate obtuse, scarcely denticulate . 2. E. leiicantha. 

 Flowers yellow. Pappus-scales lanceolate, acute, ciliate 3. JJ. Murchisonii. 



