848 LXV. COMPOSITE. [Anffianthm. 



ones oonduplicate and keeted or concave, and sometimes 2 or more inner ones flat 

 or slightly concave. Eeceptacle ■without scales. Florets hermaphrodite, tubular, 

 slender, 4 or 5-toothed, often hardened at the base. Anthers more or less 

 distinctly pointed or tailed at the base. Style-branches nearly terete, truncate. 

 Achenes usually compressed. Pappus none or of 1, 2 or more jagged or awned 

 scales, often united in a ring or cup at the base. — ^Annual or rarely perennial 

 herbs, or in one species shrubby, glabrous or more or less cottony or woolly- 

 white. Leaves alternate or very rarely irregularly opposite, entire. Clusters or 

 spikes of flower-heads terminal, sessile or pedunculate, cylindrical, oblong-ovoid, 

 globular or hemispherical, the partial involucres usually very deciduous with the 

 achenes, or rarely the subtending bract persistent. 

 The genus is limited to Australia. The many species are mostly West Australian. 



Clusters or spikes of flower-heads cylindrical, oblong-ovoid or rarely globose, the receptacle a 

 cylindrical rhachis. Annuals or rarely herbaceous perennials. 



Pappus conspicuous. Spikes oblong, often surrounded by floral leaves. 



Pappus a short irregularly fringed cup 1. ^. brachypc^pus. 



Pappus none or a minute ring. Bracts of the general involucre all 



soarious. Spikes oblong, attenuate at the base 2. A. pwsillus. 



1. iL> brachypappus (pappus short), F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vic. i. 

 44, and in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 149 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 568. An annual 

 clothed with white wool. Leaves linear or linear-cuneate, the uppermost short 

 ones close under the inflorescence. Clusters of flower-heads oblong or cylindrical, 

 attaining ^ to fin., closely sessile above the last leaves. Receptacle cylindrical. 

 Partial involucres, 1^ line long, with 2 keeled and 2 or 3 flat bracts. Florets 

 usually 2. Pappus a short irregularly-fringed or ciliate cup, not divided into 

 distinct scales, and without any long bristles. 



Hab.: Inland southern localities. 



2. A, pusillus (habit *eak), Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 564. A slender erect 

 corymbosely-branched annual of 2 to 6in., slightly woolly when young but soon 

 becoming glabrous. Leaves thick, linear or linear-cuneate, or the upper ones 

 small and ovate. Clusters of flower-heads oblong-olavate, 3 to 4 lines long, from 

 a pale yellow to a rich brown, shining. Receptacle cylindrical, slender. Sub- 

 tending bracts very broad aiid transparent, with an opaque truncate base, very 

 few of the lower ones smaller and empty, and no floral leaves round them. 

 Partial involucres of 2 keeled bracts and 2 or 4 flat ones. Florets 2 or 3 in the 

 upper heads or sdmetimes only 1 in the lower ones, 5-merous, scarcely thickened 

 at the base. Pappus annular and fringed but usually very minute, adhering to 

 the corolla and falling off with it. — Crossolepis pusilla, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 

 61 ; Chrysocoryne pusilla, Endl. in Bot. Zeit. 1843, 458; Steetz in PI. Preiss. i. 

 441 ; C. Huegelii, A. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 151 ; C. angianthoides, F. v. 

 M. in Linnsea, xxv. 404, 488. 



Hab.: Inland localities. 



44. GNEPHOSIS, Cass. 



(Cephalosorus (partly) ; Nematopus and Crossolepis, A. Gray ; Leptotriehe, Turcz.; 

 Trichanthodium and Cyathopappus, F. v. M. ) 



Flower-heads numerous and usually more or less stipitate, on a convex or 

 rarely cylindrical receptacle, in an ovoid or globular dense cluster or com- 

 pound head, without any general involucre or surrounded by a few leafy or 

 soarious bracts rarely exceeding the florets. Partial heads 1 or few flowered, 

 very rarely many-flowered. Involucre of several bracts,, the outer ones like 

 the subtending ones, narrow and often more persistent, the inner ones broader, 



