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Trine SPERMACOCER, 
SPERMACOCE, Linn. 
S. Jacobsoni (n.sp.) (After Geo. J acobson, the collector of the 
specimens from which the plant has been described.) A glandular- 
hispid annual of 12 to 15 in. high. Stems few, erect. Leaves linear- 
heads of flowers, Stipular sheath somewhat prominent, bordered by 
tather long bristles. Flowers small, very numerous, in dense terminal 
a8 long as the lobes. Anthers large oblong. No mature carpels on 
the specimens received. 
s. uniseta (n. sp.) (Stipules often reduced to a single bristle.) 
. annual, under 1 ft. high. Stems 
slender, not 8o hispid as the leaves. Leaves narrow-linear, less than an 
inch long, with revolute margins. Stipules reduced toa single-bra 
closely appressed to the’ stem and rather long, but often 
te cealed by the scale-like hairs of the leaves. Flowers small, in dense 
muinal heads. (Ca yx-lobes acute, often unequal, longer than the tube, 
es ovate, patent, nearly glabrous, undera line long, 
adout as long as the lobes, bearded inside except at the base. 
nder wetted about the middie of the corolla-tube. filaments very 
etaming q hers very small. No mature carpels on the specimens 
Hab, : Musgrave Telegraph Station, Cape York Peninsula, Geo. Jacobson. 
Order COMPOSITZA. 
Trizsr ASTEROIDEA. 
campanualat, Phrodite florets tubular dilated above, 4 to 5-toothed, or 
aves alternate, dentate or | rate-pinnatifid. Flower- 
ioe mh Conspicuous inyolucres A AB often divaricate, 
rple.—— 77 emale-florets white ;  hermaphrodite-florets violet or 
‘and B., Gen, a es ee : 
