876 hXY. COMt^OSlt^. [Seneno. 



often rather numerous, in a terminal corymb. Involucre campanulafce, the bracts 



3 to nearly 4 lines long, with a very few small 'outer ones. ■ llay-flprets usually 

 about 10 or rather fewer, spreading atod rather long'; disk-florets scarcely 

 exceeding the involucre. Aohenes glabrous dr slightly pubescent. — Hook. f. Fl. 

 Tasm. i. 223. 



Hab.: Southern localities. 



7. S. brachyglossus (short-tongued), F. v. M\ in Linnma, xxv. ,525 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 669. A slender annual, ■ 6iri. to a foot or rarely l^ft. 

 high, glabrous or sprinkled with a few short white hairs. Leaves linear with a 

 few small distant teeth or irregularly pannatiBd with few distant linear lobes. 

 Flower-heads small, solitary or clustered at the ends of the branches of a loose 

 irregular panicle. Involucre cylindrical, of about 8 bracts, about 2 lines long, 

 with 1 or 2 minute outer ones. Eay-florets about 6, the ligulse oblong but very 

 short and rolled back. Disk-florets 10 to 12, slender, 5-toothed, scarcely exceed- 

 ing the involucre. Achenes densely pubescent, those of the ray Usually longer 

 than those cff the disk. — Erechthites glossantha, Sond. ifl Linnaea, xxv. 524. 



Hab.: Inland, towards Cooper's Creek. 



8. S. odoratus (scented), Hornem.; DC. Prod. vi.-.371'; Benth. Fl. Aiist7-- 

 iii. 671. A stout erect perennial of 2 to 3ft., glabrous or rarely with a loose 

 white deciduous wool on the \inder side of the leaves. Leaves oblong or lanceo- 

 late, irregularly toothed, often narrowed below the middle and sometimes 

 almost petiolate, but dilated and stem-clasping, with toothed auricles at the base, 

 attaining 2 to 4in. in length, the upper ones and those of the side branches ' 

 sometimes almost linear. Flower-heads small and numerous, in dense corymbs 

 at the ends of the branches, forming usually a, large corymbose panicle. In- 

 volucre cylindrical, rarely exceeding 2 lines, of about 8 bracts, with 1 or two 

 small outer ones rarely wanting. Florets about 10 to 12, all tubular, consider- 

 ably longer than the involucre when iully out. . Achenes slightly pubescent, the 

 pappus inserted on a callous ring more prominent than in the allied spebies.-^ 

 A. Eich. Sert. Astrol. 109 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 228 ; Cacalia odorata, Desf. 

 Hort. Par. 165 and 400, according to DC. 



Hab.: Southern localities. 



9. S. Cunninghamii (after Allan Cunningham), DC. Prod. vi. 371; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 671. Very near S. odoratus, of which it has the flower-' 

 heads and florets. It is however smaller and more woody at the base, the stems 

 more branched, ascending or erect, often under 1ft. and rarely above 2ft. high. 

 Leaves linear or lanceolate, entire or coarsely toothed, narro'vSred into a short 

 petiole without any or only with very minute auricles at the base. Flower- 

 heads usually fewer than in S. odoratus, in small corymbs. — S. brachylanus, DC. 

 Prod. vi. 370. 



Hab.: Southern localities. 



10. S. anethifolius (Fennel-leaved), A. Cwnn. in DC. Prod. vi. 371 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. iii. 672. A glabrous branching shrub or undershrub, attaining 



4 or 5ft.. Leaves crowded, pinnately divided into long narrow linear or almost 

 filiform segments, either entire or again bearing a few equally narrow lobes. 

 Flower-heads small, numerous, in a very compact eorynib. Involucre cylindrical, 

 above 2 to nearly 3 lines long, of about 8 bracts, without any or with 1 or 2 very 

 small outer ones. Florets about 10 to 12, all tubular, longer than the involucre. 

 Achenes glabrous or scabrous-pubescent.— S. angfistilobus, F. v. M. in Linnaea, 

 xxv. 418; S. anffustifolius, Sond. I.e. 526. 



Hab.: Southern localities. 



