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Explanation of Plate IX. 
Flowering branch with its leaves and spinules, natural size. 
I. Top view of a staminate headlet. 
2/ Base view of a staminate headlet. 
3. A staminate flower detached, with its own bract. 
4. A staminate flower laid open, 
o. The five stamens separate. 
6. Front and back view of anthers. 
7. Style and stigmas, young. 
8. Involucre and receptacle of staminate headlet, the flowers 
removed. 
9. Fruiting involucre. 
10. Transverse section of fruiting involucre, showing its two 
cells with seed-bearing fruits. 
II. An involucral spinule, separated. 
12. Embryo, showing the cotyledons and radicle. 
1-12. Enlarged, but to various extent. 
By Authority : Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne. 
