2 ATJSTKALIAN PLANTS. 



together witli the upper part of the petioles, scantily downy; segments 

 few, linear, undivided or bi-trisect, terminated by a gland ; sepals ap- 

 pressed, glabrous, nearly ovate, with membranous margins ; petals five 

 to ten, white, obovate to oblong-cuneate, almost twice as long as the 

 calyx; nectar-pit distant from the base, margined, covered by a hardly 

 perceptible scale ; carpels few, glabrous, broad-ovate, compressed, mar- 

 gined, smooth, with a hooked style. 



Hab. la gravelly places on most of the summits of the Australian 

 Alps, irrigated by the melting snow. 



I should have referred this neat little plant to the Tasmanian E. 

 nanus, were the discrepancy in the colour of the petals, a character of 

 such validity in this genus, not too manifest ; for whilst to that species 

 bright yellow petals are attributed, I found them always white in this, 

 and assuming only a slight yellow tinge when drying. 



In selecting the specific name, I desire to pay a slight tribute to the 

 scientific merits of A. M'Millan, Esq., who not only forced with skill 

 and enterprise his way first into Gipps' Land, opening one of the finest 

 districts in the whole of Australia to civilization, but also named and 

 ascended Mount Wellington, where I became originally acquainted with 

 this plant. 



2. Eanunculus anemoneus, F. MueU. ; glabrous or hirsute; root fas- 

 ciculate ; stem thick, simple, erect, one- to three-flowered, below leaf- 

 less, at the base vaginate; leaves veined, the radical ones on long and 

 strong petioles, orbicular, divided to the base into three or five lobes, 

 these deeply three- to five-cleft, covering each other, their lobules va- 

 riously cut, acute; bracteal leaves large, cordate-orbicular, dissected, 

 sessile, clasping; peduncle naked, or with a smaller bracteolar leaf; 

 sepals five to seven, ovate," appressed, slightly villous ; petals large, 

 white, generally numerous, twice or three times as long as the calyx, 

 narrow oblong-cuneate, entire ; nectar-pits solitary, margined ; carpels 

 turgid, even, glabrous, margined ; the style hooked at the ex- 

 tremity. 



Hab. On springs at the summit of the Munyang Mountains. 



This charming and interesting species forms, after Grevillea Victori(S, 

 MueU., the greatest ornament to the snowy mountains of continental 

 Australia. It differs from the similarly showy species of New Zealand 

 in its white petals, and approaches rather to the European alpine type 

 of the genus represented by R, aconitifoliusy fflacialis, etc. 



