stout, channelled. Floieer about inch across. Petals apparently yellow (white according to MueUer), revolute.
Stamens 10 iu the only two flowers examined. Ovaries erect. (ripe) flattened, with a very sUghtly recurved
beak.—I doubt this proving distinct from C. Nova-Zelandim, Hook, fil., from which it differs in the few (10) stamens
of the only two perfect flowers I possess, more erect pistUs, and longer more adnate iuflexed lobes. The foliage,
habit, and fiower otherwise appear identical. MueUer places most reliance on the colour of the flower, white in
this, yellow in the New Zealand plant; but this is a variable character in the northern C. palustris.
(Page 21.) Barbarea australis, Hook. fil.
Mueller considers this the same with the European B. vulgaris, L., and I am disposed to agree with him.
(Page 22.) Hutoliinsia procKffziiwi, Br.
The cotyledons are incumbent in this plant, as correctly represented in the ‘ leones Plantarum,’ nnd as in
European specimens.
(Page 24.) Draba Pumilio (Br. in DC. Syst. ii. p. 3 5 3 ); “ scapis nudis 1-floris, foliis radicalibus
ovatis integris petiolatis, siliculis ovatis.”
Hab. Tasmania, Brown.
I know notliing of this plant, which is further thus described by De Candolle “ A very smaU glabrous herb.
Hoot perpendicular, simple, very slender. Radical leaves ovate or oval, entire, long-petioled, with the petiole 4 lin.
long. Scapes many, radical, naked, one-flowered, 2-3 lines long. Flowers minute, white. Calyx spreading. Petals
entire ? Silicula ovate; stigma capitate, subpediceUate.”
(Page 25.) 3. Lepidium/o/ioiK?« (Desv. Journ. iii. pp. 164, 18 0 ); “ siliculis ovali-rhombeis
emarginatis, stylo subexserto, foliis oblongis obtusis ad apicem grosse dentatis confertis.”—DC. Syst. ii.
p. 546.
Hab. D’Entrecasteaux Channel [fid. D C ). Abundant on the islands off the south-east coast, never
on the main, nor even on Bruni Island, OUfield [fid. Muellei).
I do not know this species, which is thus described by De CandoUe:—" Stem herbaceous, annual ?, robust,
erect, branching, brancbes densely leafy. Leaves glabrous, subfleshy, oblong, obtuse, senate at the apex with sharp
deep teeth, 3 lines broad, the upper three-toothed at the apex. Pedicels siibangled, 8 lines long, approximate,
obliquely erect. Siliques 2 liues long, almost g a line broad, oval-rhomboid, emarginate, valves keeled, stigma
subexserted; seeds red, thickish.—^Differs from L. Piscidium in tbe siliques being almost twice as large.”
I have seen two specimens of what may after all be Desvaux’s plant, one marked L.foliosum by Mueller,
gathered at Southport, Tasmania; the other collected in Victoria by Haivey. These agree with the description
given above, except in the siliques being smaller than in L. Piscidium, of which I expect my plant (probably
Desvaux’s) is a variety. It differs from L. cuneifoiium in the acute leaves.
(Page 26.) Viola Jiederacea, Lab.
Mueller considers this to be very distinct fi-om V. Sieberi, but after another careful examination with Mr.
Archer of Sieber’s original specimens aud of those figured in the ‘ Elora Exotica,’ together with a very fine suite
of forms (collected by Jlr, Archer), we are unable to find any characters that would make of it even a permanent
variety. I have not seen Mueller’s specimens.
There is, however, a plant which I have regarded as a form of V. hederacea, with minute flowers and very
short pedicels (very analogous to the fertile forms of some European species) which Mr. Areher thinks may prove
distinct; it has a more tufted habit, is smaller in aO its parts, has the vei-y short peduncles about half the length of
the leaves; the floivci-s only 2-5 lines in diameter, and generaOy violet; the petals recm-ved and but little longer
than the sepals. This bears fertile anthers and also produces seed abundantly, identical with the seed of the commoner
form of V. hederacea, which, however, also ripens its capsules and seeds. This is either a distinct speeies or
is a more fertile reduced state of V. hederacea, with which it agrees so closely in foliage that small specimens of hederacea
can with difficulty be distinguished from it except by the above characters aud its solitary, non-stoloniferous
habit. The small, more fertüe, and short-pedicelled flowers of the European species occur, I believe, on the same
plant with the larger, less fertüe, long-pedicelled flowers ; and if the Tasmanian Viola hederacea presents analogous
differences in its flowers to the Eui-opean, it is the more remarkable case, for its smaU and large flowers are
always on different plants.
♦ Mr. Gunn, who sends tlie small form from granite soil, St. Patrick’s River, elevation 2000 feet, believes that
it is not a distinct species, though it grows singly and does not form the large masses that V. hederacea does in
its usual form. Ai-eher, who does consider it distinct, collected it at Cheshunt and on the Western Mountains. I
have it also from Yictoria, collected by Robertson,
3. Viola Cunninghamii, /3 radicata (Hook. fil. Flor. N. Zeal. i. p. 16) ; cæspitosa, vix stolonifera,
glaberrima ; foliis late ovatis obtusissimis crenatis basi subcordatis, petiolo apice dilatato, stipulis lanceolato
subulatis remote dentatis, bracteolis parvis, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis, petalis subspathulatis lateralibus
obscure barbatis postico emarginato, calcare brevi.
Hab. ‘Western Mountains, by rivulets, on Cuming’s Head, Archer.—(Fl. Dec.)
Distrib. Mountains of New Zealand.
This resembles a good deal the small plant I have just described uuder V. hederacea, especially in habit, but
is more tufted, has the leaves louger in proportion to their breadth, less rounded or reniform, and has not the
waved tooth-margins of V. hedei-acea, but distinct, broad crenatiu-es; the long stout peduncle, broader sepals, and
scarcely bearded petals further distinguish it well.—Whole plant glabrous, 2-4 inches high. Rhizome slender,
perpendicular or creeping. Stems extremely short; stolones none. Leaves pale-green, ^-1 inch long, ovate, with
rounded apices and crenate margins, always longer than broad, sometimes cordate at the base, never deeply as in
V. Caleyana, nor with the broad shaUow sinus of V. hederacea. Flowers pale, inch across. Sepals broader
and shorter thau in V. hederacea; the petals very similar to those of that plant, as are the capsules and seeds.
4. Viola Caleyana (Don, Syst. Gard. i. p. 32 9 ); caulescens v. stolonifera, glaberrima; foliis profunde
cordatis obtusis crenato-serratis, stipulis bracteolisque foliaceis oblongis obtusiusculis, sepalis falcato-lanceo-
latis acuminatis, petalis glabris postico apice bilobo lateralibus glabris oblongo-spathulatis, calcare brevi
late saccato.
I I a b . Deloraine, Archer.
D is tr. New Soutli Wales. Illawarra, Backhouse. Victoria, Mueller.
A veiy variable species, quite distinct from any of the former, and easüy recognized by the larger stipules aml
braeteoles, deeply cordate leaf, aud bilobed spurred petal.— Rhizome short, very fibrous. Stems or branches 1-10
inches long, tufted or lax and traüing. Petioles slender. Leaves g -lg inch long, veiy variable in breadth; in the
Illawarra specimen the cordate bases are so laterally produced that the leaf is broadly triangular and twice as broad
as long. Peduncles slender. Flowers J inch diam. Sepals aU produced at the base. Lateral petals minutely
bearded. Anthers as in its Tasmaniau congeners. Stigma truncate and minutely toothed. Capsule and seeds as
in V. hederacea.—Dou puts this in his section Bischidium, characterized by the bifid stigma and acaulescent habit,
but descrilics the species as caulescent, aud the stigma as unknown. I do not on the dried specimens observe the
spots he describes on the stem.
(Page 27.) Ilymenantliera angustifolia, Br., is a native of Victoria. Mueller considers it to be
specifically the same with E . dentata, Br., of New South Wales, and E . Banksii, Muell. MSS. H. angustifolia
grows in Tasmania in the same locality with Biscaria [Oldfeld).
(Page 35.) Tetratliecaprocuviletis, Gunn, MSS.
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