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 COLLECTED 13 Y CAPTAIN STURT. 329

render it necessary to state, that I have fount! it quite uniform in all the flowers I have examined ; namely, in four immediately before, and in three after expansion.

��PODOCOMA.

CiiAii. Gen. — Involucrum imbricatum, foliolis angustis acutis. Lif/ida pluriseriales, angustissunae, femineoc. Flos- cull pauciores hermaphrodito-masculi. Ligularum pappo capillari, stipitato, denticulate. Recepfaculum epaleatum.

YIqyX)^ hnmilis, sefosa ; canle dense folia fo ; folia jy^//^?- lata, cimcata, inclsa, sells alhls consjiersa,

14. PoDOCOMA cunelfolla. Pi

Loc. In Herbario I). Sturt absque ulla indicatione loci vel stationis.

Obs. This plant appears to be generically distinct from Erigeron, particularly in its stipitate pappus. The speci- mens, however, are so incomplete, that I am unable to de- termine whether what I have considered stem, may not be a branch only.

��LEICHAPDTIA.

Char. Gen. — Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla urceolata ; tubo intus imberbi ; fauce annulo integerrimo incrassata. Corona slamlnea 5-phylla, foliolis anthcris oppositis, iisque brevioribus, indivisis. Anllierce meml)rana (brevi) termi- natse. Massed Polllnls erectse basi afiixce. SH(jma vix divisum.

Suffrutexz;o///^///6^- foliis linearibus, fasclcidarlhus, extra- alarlhus ; foUiculis ventrlcosis ovato-ohloncjls.

15. Leichardtia australis. Doubah Mitchell, trap. Austr. p. 85.

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