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 6–8 pairs, gradually diminishing towards the base of the petiole, sharply toothed or incised; cauline leaves or bracts few, deeply incised. Flowering-stems few or several, erect or spreading, strict, terete, clothed with a short fine pubescence intermixed with long silky hairs, branched above, forming a few-flowered cymose panicle. Flowers small, white, ¼–⅓ in. diam.; pedicels elongating in fruit. Calyx-tube turbinate; lobes ovate-deltoid, acute. Petals small, rounded. Fruiting receptacle silky. Achenes numerous, spreading, $1/undefined$ in. long, perfectly glabrous, oblong-ovoid, somewhat turgid, narrowed into a short hooked or spirally recurved style.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 130.

6. G. pusillum, ''Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxviii. (1896) 538.—Small, depressed, 1–2 in. high. Leaves few, all radical, rosulate, obovate-spathulate in outline, ¾–l in. long, sparsely covered with rather long strigose hairs, pinnate; terminal leaflet ¼–⅓ in. broad, rounded, crenate-toothed; lateral leaflets 5–8 pairs, gradually diminishing in size, bluntly toothed. Scapes 1–2 in. high, 1-flowered. simple, naked or with 1–3 minute bracts, finely and closely pubescent. Flowers minute, white. Calyx-tube broadly turbinate; lobes ovate-deltoid. Petals 5–6, small, elliptic-oblong. Fruiting receptacle elongated, villous. Achenes very small, perfectly glabrous, obliquely oblong or obovoid; style minute, reduced to a recurved point.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 130.

Perennial herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves either pinnate or digitately 3–5-foliolate; stipules adnate to the petiole. Flowers solitary or in corymbose cymes. Calyx persistent, lobes 5 or rarely 4, valvate, alternating with as many bracteoles. Petals 5, rarely 4, usually broad. Stamens numerous. Disc annular or coating the calyx-tube. Carpels many, rarely few, seated on a small dry receptacle; style persistent or deciduous, terminal or lateral; ovule solitary, pendulous. Achenes usually numerous, crowded into a head surrounded by the persistent calyx.