Calocq^halus.] LXV. COMPOSITjE. 861 



sessile, the subtending bracts often very small, the outer involucral bracts 

 woolly at the base, the lamina of the inner ones bright-yellow. Pappus-scales 

 variably plumose, sometimes few only and slender, sometimes 8 to 10 and 

 broader.— DC. Prod. vi. 151 ; Brongn. Voy. Cog. t. 60. 

 Hab.: Wallangarm (probably this species, but the speeimens very fragmentary). 



3. C. Dittrichii (after Lieut. Dittrich), F. v. M. in I'lm-orm's Bot. 

 Centndbl. xxvii. 300; 2wrf Stjst. Cens. Attstr. PI. 140. Annual, wooUy- 

 tomentose, neither tall nor much-branched. Leaves scattered, linear, blunt, 

 nearly flat or somewhat channelled, 4 to 8 lines long, slightly broader at 

 the base. Cluster of flower-heads rather small, terminal, solitary, depressed- 

 globular, the summit of the branchlets forming often a short peduncle. General 

 involucre not exceeding the cluster of flower-heads, constituted of several rows of 

 bracts ; the latter green, narrow, woolly and terminated by a minute scarious 

 yellow glabrous ovate or cordate-roundish lamina. General receptacle small, 

 not conspicuous, elevated, bearing numerous flower-heads ; bracts constituting 

 the ultimate involucres several, oblong or linear-cuneate, hyaline, 1 -nerved, 

 woolly only under the small yellow roundish radiating lamina. Flowers minute, 

 11 to 24 in each head. Corolla slender, gradually widening upwards. Achenes 

 pale-brown, truncate-ellipsoid, subtle-papillular. Pappus very' tender, white, 

 formed of very few laxly-plumose-bearded somewhat intricate bristles, these 

 at the summit slightly tufted, at the very base connate. — F. v. M. I.e. 



Hab.: Inland, southern border. 



On superficial inspection this plant might easily be passed as an Angianthus or Craspedia, 

 especially as it was found accompanied by a small variety of G. pleiocephala.—F. v. M. I.e. 



4. C. platycephalus (heads broad), Benth Fl. Austr. iii. 576. A perennial 

 or undershrub, more or less woolly- white, with simple. or branched stems of ^ to 

 1ft. Leaves linear. Clusters of flower -heads globose and about \m. diameter 

 or at length larger and irregularly lobed, without outer empty bracts. Receptacle 

 small. Partial heads shortly stipitate, many-flowered. Involucral bracts very 

 numerous, the outer ones narrow and woolly, the inner broader transparent and 

 glabrous, all with a reniform folded lamina, radiating but very small and scarcely 

 conspicuous when the flowers are fully out. Pappus of hair-like woolly-plumose 

 bristles. — Pachysurm platycephalus, F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 154. 



Hab.: Inland, central. 



46. GNAPHALODES, A. Gray. 

 (Gnaphalium-like.) 



Flower-heads several, sessile in a dense cluster or compound head, surrounded 

 by a few leafy bracts, each head many-flowered. Involucre ovoid, the bracts 

 scarious, imbricate, very woolly, the inner ones with small radiating tips. 

 Eeceptacle without scales. Florets all slender, tubular, hermaphrodite, 5-toothed. 

 Anthers with fine tails. Style-branches truncate. Achenes glabrous. Pappus 

 of about 5 elastically-spreading, rather broad, plumose bristles. — Dwarf branching 

 annuals, more or less white-tomentose. Leaves alternate, entire. Clusters of 

 flower-heads terminal. 



The genus is limited to Australia. The habit is almost that of Gnaphalium, but there are no 

 female florets. It connects the Anrjianthece with HelichnjsecE. — Benth. 



1. G. uliginosum (found in wet places), A. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 

 228 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 578. A dwarf, diffuse, white tomentose annual, the 

 central stems exceedingly short, the lateral ones often 2 to 31 n. long. Leaves 

 small, petiolate, obovate. Clusters of flower-heads nearly \m. diameter, sessile 



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