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Fructiis ovati, glabri, clrciter sesqui- 

 Nativi cortice tenacissimo iisdem fila 



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calycem liaud superantia. 

 lineam longi^ forsan sicci. 

 et retia dante utuntur. 



Pimelea phylicoides a promontorio Point Lonsdale saltem ad 



St, Vincenti extendit sicut flumine Murraji tenus. In 

 insula Kingii ditionis Tasmanise forsan reperieuda. Planta suf- 

 fruticosa, |-li' alta. Sequenti admodum affiuis. 



Pimelea octophylla (P. petrgea, Meissn. in Liunsea xxvi. 347) a 

 portu Phillipi ad montes Gawler-Ranges vergit, atque in insula 

 halmaturorum apparet. Semipedem usque 2' alta. 



Pimeleajlava prope Berwicl:, BenNevis, Portland, Grampians 

 et Glenelg River occurrit. Folia saspe insigniter seruginosa. 

 riores biformes. P. dichotomam, quse floribus albidis gaudet, a 

 Venus Baj, Streaky Bay^ Kangaroo Island, Spencer's Gulf, St. 

 Vincent^s Gulf, et Murray's River liabeo. 



Pimelea serpillifolia (P. cluytioides, Meissn, inLehm. Pl. Preiss. 

 ii. 271) a sinu Great Bight secus raare ad promontorium Wilsoni 

 vergit, nec non in locis salinis ad flumen Murrayi, in Tasmania, 



Conf. F. M. Papers Roj. 

 Soc. Tasm, 1868, 12. Folia interdum oblongo-lanceolata, et fere 

 ^" longa. Calyces citrini. Antherae aiirantiacse. Qufedam forma 

 manifeste spiuescit. 



Pimelea elachantha (F. M. First Gen. Rep. 1853, 17 ; P. 

 Hewardiana, Meissn. in Linnjea xxvi. 346 ; P. umbratica, A. Cunn. 

 in Cand. Prodr. xiv. 510) ad ostium fluvii Glenelgii, prope urbem 

 Portland, in valle Bacchus-Marsh, in monte Arapiles occurrit, 

 Affinitate tam ad P. curvifloram, quam ad P. serpillifoliam tra- 

 hitur. Suffrutex paucipedalis, jam altitudine spithamnea floret. 

 Folia tenui-chartacea, nunquam coriacea; vense manifestae, satis 



King's et Flinders^s Island nascitur. 



divergentes. Fldres in capitulo usque 9. Fructus sicci, pilosuli, 



sensim in apysem attenuati, vix 2'" longi. Leichhardt eandem 



plantam in cataracta Apsley's Fall Novse Anglice invenisse 

 videtur. 



Pimelea curvijiora a fluvio Dawsoni (conf, Proceed. Linn. Soc. 

 ii* 152) et Darling's Downs ad sinum Spenceri exteudit. Ab hac 

 tuto distinguere nequeoP. gracilem, P. propinquam, P. micranthem, 

 P. hirsutam, P. Muelleri. Folia in varietate amphilsena utrinque 

 dense vestlta. Capitula non raro multiflora. Calyx flavescens 

 vel rarius pr^ecipue in alpibus altissimis rufescens. Species si 

 regiones glaciales inhabitat ut multge alise procumbit. Receptacula 

 passim in cylindrum semipolliearem elongata. Planta quoque 

 variat pedunculata, i. e. capituHs nudis pedunculo axillari usque 

 sesquipoUicari gracilique prseditis. Hsec varietas in Nova Anglia, 

 ad flumen Clarencei et ad Warwick apparet, et P. latifoliam valde 

 approximat. 



Pimelea Boicmani ad Pinchester et Broad Sound crescit. Qui- 

 busdam formis P. curviflorfe adhiic comparanda. 



