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 the perianth, the slender stigmatic end scarcely distincts.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 593, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 471.

.—Low shrubs with a creeping trunk and very short ascending flowering stems bearing one or few ovoid flower-heads surrounded by long floral leaves. Leaves pinnate with numerous rigid segments, the margins usually but not always revolute and white underneath.

22. D. nivea, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 214, Prod. 398. A dwarf shrub, the stems sometimes scarcely any besides the underground or creeping trunk, rarely ascending to nearly 1 ft. Leaves 4 to 8 in. long, pinnate, divided almost or quite to the midrib into numerous regular triangular or falcate segments, obtuse or rarely acute, 1 to 3 lines long, verying in breadth, those towards the end of the leaf usually separated by acute sinuses, the lower ones more distant and decurrent, or all different in this respect in different leaves, all rather thick, with revolute margins, white underneath. Flower-heads terminal, closely surrounded by long floral leaves. Involucre ovoid, usually about 1 in. long; bracts numerous, narrow, glabrous or minutely ciliate, or with the ends more or less woolly, the outer short ones sometimes subulate, the inner ones obtuse or scarcely acute. Perianths about as long as the involucre, loosely villous except the undivided base, the limb scarcely 1½ lines long. Style considerable longer than the perianth, with a small narrow stigmatic end slightly thickened at the base. Capsule obovate-falcate, about ½ in. broad.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 594, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 472; Banksia nivea, Labill. Voy. i. 411, t. 24; Josephia rachidifolia, Knight, Prot. 111.

23. D. arctotodis, ''R.Br. Prot. Nov.'' 39. A dwarf shrub with the habit of D. nivea. Leaves much more rigid, 4 to 8 in. long, deeply divided into numerous linear-falcate rigid acute lobes, 2 to 4 lines long,