852 LXV. COMPOSITE. [Gnaphalodes. 



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amid broadly ovate or oblong woolly floral-leaves of 2 to 4 lines. Bracts of the 

 involucre closely connected by an intricate wool. Florets numerous. Pappus- 

 bristles plumose from the base, without any terminal tuft, spreading out 

 elastically the moment they are released, from the wool of the involucre: — tr. 

 evacinum, Sond. in Linneea, xxv. 520. 

 Hab.: Augathella and other inland localities. 



47. CRASPEDIA, Forst. 

 (From the Greek for fringe.) 

 (Eicliea, LahiU.; Pycnosorus, Benth.) 

 Flower-heads numerous, sessile or nearly so on a convex oblong or cylindrical 

 receptacle, in a globulor or ovoid dense cluster or compound head, surrounded 

 by several more or less scarious bracts, forming a general involucre not exceed- 

 ing the florets. Partial-heads 3 to 8-flowered. Involucre of several scarious 

 bracts, the tips sometimes coloured by not radiating, and similar bracts or scales 

 on the partial receptacle under each floret. Florets hermaphrodite, tubular, 

 5-toothed. Anthers more or less distinctly tailed. Style-branches nearly terete, 

 truncate. Aohenes usually compresed, silky-hairy. Pappus of several narrow- 

 linear scales or bristles, plumose-ciliate from the base or towards the end only, 

 all free or slightly united at the base. — Herbs, more or less woolly or silvery- 

 silky, or rarely nearly glabrous. Leaves radical or alternate, entire. Clusters 

 of flower-heads terminal, often rather large.. 



The genus extends to New Zealand. Of the 4 Australian species, 1 is the same as the common 

 New Zealand one, t' e others are endemic. The genus is nearly allied to Anpianthus and 

 Galocephalus, differing from both in the scales of the receptacle within the partial heads. — 

 Benth. 



Clusters of flower-heads pale coloured, depressed-globular. Outer bracts 



ovate, with broad brown margins 1. G. Richea. 



Clusters of flower-heads bright-yellow, globular or ovoid. Outer bracts 



lanceolate, with brown margins . ; : 2. (7. pleiocephala. 



Clusters of flower-heads yellow, globular or slightly ovoid. Outer bracts 

 very small, and concealed by the reflexed partial heads. 

 Clusters about Jiri. diameter. Leaves at length glabrous above, loosely 



woolly underneath ' 3. C. chrymntliix. 



Clusters about lin. diameter. Leaves silvery-silky on both sides . . . 4. C. glohosa. 



1. C. Itichea (old generic name), Cass.; DO. Prod. vi. 152; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. iii. 579. A perennial, more or less woolly or silky-white, or nearly 

 glabrous, the tufted stock emitting thick fleshy fibrous roots and simple erect 

 stems. Eadical leaves from obovate-oblong to lanceolate, often several inches long 

 and narrowed into a long petiole ; stem-leaves narrow, stem-clasping, the upper 

 ones small and distant. Cluster of flower-heads solitary, depressed-globular, 

 J to lin. diameter, surrounded by about 6 to 10 ovate bracts shorter than the 

 heads, with broad brown scarious margins, the subtending bracts within the 

 cluster also ovate, with brown margins, the inner ones smaller and more scarious. 

 Eeceptacle globular. Partial heads 6 to 8-flowered. Involucral bracts thin and 

 transparent, ovate, or the inner ones oblong, shorter than the florets, passing 

 into the similar scales of the receptacle. Florets with a slender tube and cam- 

 panulate limb. Pappus of 10 to 15 filiform plumose scales or bristles, as long 

 as the floret. — Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 197 ; C. uniflora, Forst. Prod. 58 ; Richea 

 glauca, Labill. Voy. t. 16, and PL Nov. HoU. ii. 123 ; Podospermum pedunculare, 

 Sieb. PI. Exs. ; Craspedia glauca and C. pilosa, Spreng. Syst. iii. 441 ; Lindl. 

 Bot. Eeg. t. 1908; C. fimhriata, DC. Prod, vi, 152; C. gracilis, Hook. f. in 

 Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 118. 



Hab.; Southern downs. 



