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^chene smooth and glabrous, each face with a raised median line. All 
achenes bearing a conspicuous pappus which blends with the marginal 
cilice. 
Locality . — Cue, January, 1903. — J. R. P. Andrews. 
Remarks. — This new species very closely resembles.#. iberidifola, 
Benth., but in that plant the achenes of the disk are angular, those of 
the ray corky and differently shaped. Neither of the achenes develops 
a conspicuous pappus nor marginal ciliae. 
ANGIANTHUS CONNATUS, sp. nov.— 
An erect or ascending usually much branched annual of 3-6 inches 
high ; stems glabrous ; flowering branches and heads invested with a 
white wool. Stem-leaves opposite, connate, linear, obtuse or shortly 
acute, -J-f inch long. Clusters of flower-heads turbinate-obovoid, about 
3 lines long. Floral leaves few, alternate, lanceolate, obtuse, tapering 
at the base, reticulate, 2-3 lines long, the inner ones terminating in 
scarious tips. Receptacle slightly branched, subtending bracts broadly 
spathulate, of firm texture, reticulate-veined without, shorter than the 
partial involucres and terminating in small scarious tips. Partial 
involures shortly stipitate, 1-3, usually 2, within each subtending 
bract and consisting of 2 outer keeled and 3 inner flattened scarious 
bracts, all linear and with the tips often expanded into small mem- 
branous appendages. Florets solitary, 5-merous, scarcely thickened 
at the base. Pappus a ring of scarious scales, connate at the base 
and falling off with the corolla. Achene smooth, bearing near summit 
a quantity of long white wool. 
Locality . — Minginew. — W. V. F., September, 1903. 
Remarks. — This species appears to be correctly referable to 
Angianthus , but is without immediate ally. The wool on the achene 
occurs in A. demissus , Benth. In Gnephosis arachnoides , Turcz. often 
occur several partial involucres within one subtending bract. 
GNEPHOSIS EXILIS, sp. nov.— 
An annual with slender, erect, scantily-woolly stems, much branched 
from the base, mostly 4-6 inches high. Leaves linear to filiform under 
f inch long. Clusters of flower-heads globular, about 3 lines diameter, 
the florets conspicuous, surrounded by a involucre of several rows of 
shining yellow, woolly-ciliate scarious bracts, much shorter than the 
partial involucres. Receptacle small, convex, glabrous, the bases of 
the floret-heads prominent. Partial involucres slightly compressed, 
bracts scarious, scantily woolly at the top, bearing small ovate pale 
yellow laminae, the subtending 1 and 2 outer ones narrow and keeled, 
the three inner ones broader and almost flat, all very deciduous. 
