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272 dry or scarious margins. Receptacle convex, naked. Ray-florets in 1–3 series, female, fertile, ligulate or rarely short and tubular; ligule usually white. Disc-florets numerous, hermaphrodite, tubular, with a broad 5-toothed limb. Anthers obtuse at the base. Style-branches of the disc-florets long, flattened, with lanceolate or triangular tips. Achenes compressed, abruptly contracted at the top into a more or less distinct beak; those of the disc-florets often narrower and sterile. Pappus wanting.

1. L. Forsteri, D.C. Prodr. v. 307.—A small daisy-like herb, either tufted or with creeping and rooting stolons furnished with tufts of radical leaves at the nodes. Leaves all radical or cauline, 1½–2in. long; petiole long, slender; blade ½–1 in., orbicular or orbicular-oblong to obovate, obtuse, narrowed into the petiole, coarsely crenate-dentate or almost lobed, almost glabrous or more or less hirsute. Scape 1–6 in. long, slender, naked or with 1–3 minute linear bracts. Heads ¼–½ in, diam.; involucral bracts linear, acute; margins thin, scarious, entire or finely jagged. Ray-florets numerous; ligules white, revolute. Achenes small, linear-obovate, straight or very slightly curved, abruptly narrowed into a short hardly viscid beak; margins thickened.—''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 436; Raoul, Choix, 45; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 125; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 137; Kirk, Students Fl.'' 256. Calendula pumila, ''Forst. Prodr.'' n. 305. Microcalia australis, ''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel.'' 231, t. 30.