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 remaining adnate to the seeds leave no loose plate between them, or separating from the seeds and forming two parallel plates between them. Involucres large, with numerous broad bracts.

41. D. tenuifolia, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 215, Prod. 398. A robust shrub, sometimes low and procumbent, sometimes erect bushy and attaining 3 or 4 ft., the branches nearly glabrous, with few narrow scales at the base of each year's shoot. Leaves very narrow, often 6 to 8 in. long, with closely revolute margins, tomentose underneath, rarely all entire, frequently toothed towards the end or in the upper half only, or in the typical forms regularly divided for more than half the length or quite to the base into short recurved lobes or teeth. Flower-heads large, lateral without any or with very few small linear floral leaves. Involucres at first ovoid, at length very broad, black and glabrous or when young slightly woolly, 1½ to 2 in. long; outer bracts broad, sometimes with short subulate points, inner ones broadly linear, obtuse. Perianths not exceeding the involucre, villous above the glabrous face, pubescent or glabrous towards the end, the limb very narrow, 3 lines long. Style not exceeding the perianth, with a slightly furrowed but not thickened stigmatic end. Capsule above ½ in. broad. Seeds (in the fruit examined perhaps not quite ripe) entirely separating without leaving any intermediate plate, the wing very thin though formed of two separable layers.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 597, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 478; Bot. Mag. t. 3513; D. uncata, A. Cunn. Herb.