often large, broad, glabrous foliage, and ve iy small flowers on pubescent ovaries ; specimens with larger flowers
and smaller leaves appear to pass into E. B illa rd ien anm i ; and others, irith nan-ower bases of the leaves, into
E. glaleUum.
5 . Epilobium glabellum (Forst. e x Spreng. Syst. ii. 2 3 3 ) ; caule sim plic i v . ramoso erecto v . basi
decumbente ramis erectis, foliis oppositis breve petiolatis ovatis v . ob lon go-ovatis lineari-oblongisve obtusis
remote sinuato-dentatis, floribus paucis, capsulis puberulis glabratisve, floribus parvis.— FL N . Zeal. i. 6 0 .
{Gunn, 3 9 9 , 8 0 3 o f 1 8 3 7 , and 8 0 5 o f 1 8 4 7 .)
H a b . P o r t Arthur , B a ck h o u se ; Em u Eiver, Hampshire H ills ; sides o f Mou n t Olympus, G im n ;
Sarah Islan d , M illig a n .— (FI. J an . F eb .) («. v.)
D i s t r i b . N ew Zealand.
The petioled, opposite leaves are the best character whereby to distinguish this species from the other Tasmanian
ones ; it is a common New Zealand plant, but I have only seen two characteiistic Tasmanian specimens ; small
states o f this pass into E. alpinum o f the Em-opean mountains, and others closely resemble E. alsinoides, also a
European mountain plant.
6 . Epilobium junceum (F or st. ex Spreng. Syst. ii. 2 3 3 ) ; totum pubescens tomentosum v. viilo-
sum, caulibus erectis decumbentibusve strietis v . flexuosis, foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis remote grosse
dentatis margimbus sæpe recurvis, pedunculis plurimis e axillis superioribus subracemosis, capsulis e longatis
cano-pubesc entibus, floribus parvis.— FI. N . Z ea l. i. 6 0 . E . puberulum, Eo o k . e t Arn . B o t. M is c . iii.
3 0 9 . E . denticulatum, R u iz e t P a v o n , F L P e ru v . iii. 7 8 . t. 3 1 4 . E . virgatum e t E . incanum, A . Cunn.
P r o d r . FL N . Z eal, in An n . N a t. E i s t . iii. 3 4 . E . pedicellare, P r e s l, R e l. H a n k . ii. 3 0 .
Yar. a ; stricta, erecta, virgata, sim p lex v . parce ramosa, foliis 1 -2 -u n c ia lib u s tomentosis. {Gunn, 8 2 ,
2 5 5 .)
Yar. /3 ; suberecta, robusta, ramosa, ramis e re ctis, foliis ut in a . {Gunn, 4 0 6 .)
Yar . 7 ; decumbens v. ascendens, cano-puberula, caule gracili flexuoso raraosissimo, foh is minoribus.
{Gunn, 2 5 3 , 2 5 4 .)
H a b . A bundant th roughout th e Colony, b y waysides and in pastures, etc .— (El. N o v ,-J a n .) {v. v.)
D i s t r i b . South-eastern and South-western Austraha, N ew Zealand, and extratropical western South
America.
The alternate narrow oblong or linear-oblong, remotely toothed leaves, are the best character for tliis species,
which varies even more than its Tasmanian congeners in habit, pubescence, stature, etc. The two best-mai-ked
forms,— one erect, stout, strict, nearly simple ; the other decumbent, flexuose, slender, m uch branched,— are certainly
far more dissimilar than any two of the last three species of the genus ; but they are inseparably connected by a
host o f intermediate grades, both in Tasmania aud in New Zealand, where it is one of the commonest plants.
Gen. I I . OE N O T H E E A , A.
Calyc is tu b u s supra ovarium productus, hmbi decidui lob is 4 sæpe varie connatis. P e ta la 4 , annuio
inserta, brevissime u nguiculata. S tam in a 8 , Ovarium 4-locuIare, ovuhs ángulo centrah aflixis. Capsula
lo cuhc ide 4 -valvis. Semina plurima ; testa crassa, n on carnosa.
A very extensive genus, exclusively American, with the exception o f the Tasmanian species ; very common
in gardens, whence several species have escaped, and become naturalized in various countries. The genus is very
nearly allied to Epilobium, from which it is distinguished by the tube of the calyx being elongated beyond the
ovarj’, its often adherent lobes, and the naked seeds. (Name said to be from otvoç, wine, and 6t¡pa>D, to chase ;
referring to a plant, the roots o f which were eaten as incentives to wine-drinking ; or perhaps to dispel, or chase,
the effects of wine.)
1 . OEnothera Tasmanica (Hook. fil. in Lond. J o um . B o t. vi. 4 7 5 ) ; parvula, caulibus prostratis divaricatim
ramosis basi repentibus glabris, fohis sessilibus oppositis alternisque linearibus hneari-oblongisve
obtusis crispato-dentatis glaberrimis, floribus parvis, calycis tu b o (ultra ovarium) brevi infundibuliformi,
antheris breviter oblongis, stigmate clavato, capsula cylindraceo-tetragona torulosa pu b e sc en te, seminibus
obovatis plano-convexis, hilo umbilicali, marginibus subincrassatis. {Gunn, 1 0 6 5 .)
H a b . I n alpine marshes at Marlborough, Gunn.— (FL Jan.)
Yeiy closely allied to the (E. dentata, a plant wliich ranges from South Chili to the Andes of North America,
agreeing with that species in habit, in the small flowers, short prolongation of the calyx-tube, and elavate or almost
globose stigma, but differiug in the shorter, less angled pod, and more procumbent habit.— Stems slender, a few
inches to a span long, procmnbent, creeping at the base. Leaves glabrous, hnear or linear-oblong, toothed, 4 - |
inch loug, Flowers small, purplish? Fetals unequaUy lobed, as short as tbe lobes of the calyx. Capsules axillarj-
sessile, pubescent, rather longer than the leaves.
N a t . O r d . X X IX . HALORAGEÆ.
Austraha is the head-quarters o f this curious N a tu ra l Family, which is composed almost u n exceptionally
o f obscure weeds, having in many cases very h ttle to recommend them to th e inexperienced observer.
In a systematic poin t o f view, many o f th e genera are very obscurely related to one another, and include
watei- and land plauts, with very different habits and floral characters. One o f th e genera, CaUitriche, is
indeed excluded from H a lo ra g ea by many authors, th ou gh originally referred to it b y Mr. Brown, and
liaving no affinity with any other known g en u s o f plants. The albumen in the seed, which is th e character
by which the Order is b e st distinguished from Onagrariæ, has be eu erroneously described as w an tin g in the
genus MyriophyUum. A b ou t forty-five species o f Australian H a lo ra g e a are known.
Gen. I . H A L O R A G IS , F o rst.
Calycis tub u s teres, angulatus v. alatus ; hm b i lob is 4 , persistentibus. P e ta la 4 , concava, decidua.
Stam in a 4 - 8 ; antheris longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. S tigm a ta 4 , simphcia v . plumosa. Fru c tu s in d eh iscens,
2 -4 -lo cn la r is. Semina loculis solitaria, pendula. Fmbryo in a xi albuminis carnosi, teres.
I have in the ‘New Zealanrl Flora’ adopted Brown’s riew (General Remarks on the Vegetation of Australia,
App. Flind. Yoy.), and brought together Goniocarpus and Cercodia under Haloragis, not being able to find any
satisfactory characters for keeping tbem separate. As thus constituted, Haloragis is a large genus, but a very natural
one, almost couflned to the southern hemisphere, and to Australia especiaUy ; the chief exceptions being H . alata,
a native of South ChUi and New Zealand, and H. mici-antha, a Tasmanian species, which extends to New Zealand,
India, China, and Japan.— Erect or prostrate or creeping herbs, smooth or scabrid, often inhabiting di-y places.
Flowers hermaphrodite or bisexual, smaU, axiUary or racemed at the end of the branches, green or purplish, sessile
or pediceUed. Calyx terete, or angled, or winged ; Hiub fom--lobed. PetaU foui-, concave, very deciduous, often
boat-shaped. Stamens four to eight. Anthers long, on short filaments. Stigmas four, sessüe, papillose or plumose.
Fruit small, hard or coriaceous, often dark bromi, shining, and angled, cmstaceous or coriaceous, indéhiscent,
two- to four-lobed. (Name from ôXç, the sea, aud pa$, a grape-stone,- from the form of the fruit of the original
species, which grows near the sea.)
a. Leaves alternate.
1. Haloragis pinnatifida (Asa Gray, in B o t. U .S . E xp l. E xp . i. 6 2 7 ) ; lævis v . scaberula, caule
basi decumbente ramosissimo, ramis gracilibus ascendentibus sulcatis, foliis alternis linearibus remote irre