146 AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 



gina truncate, with or without short bristles; flowers axillory and ter- 

 miual, solitary, on very short peduncles, not opposite to each other ; 

 tube of the coroUa very tliin, much longer than the bidentate limb of 

 the calyx; stamens and style exserted, the latter divided nearly to the 

 base, its divisions capillary ; fruits ovate, tapering into the base, nearly 

 glabrous, crowned by the twice or three times shorter, deltoid, acurai- 

 minate, ciliate, nearly' erect teeth of the calyx. 



Hab. Mountain pastures, and plains along the Snowy Eiver. 



One of the most southern localities of a tribe of plants, which 

 abounds within the tropics. Neriera depresm shares its localities. 



Its nearest related congener seems to be Biodia Virgi7iica. 



99. Galium (Sect. Leiapai*ine)^^m?2//b/2w»e, F, Muell.; somewhat sca- 

 brous, otherwise smooth ; stems long, flaccid, decumbent, with dichoto- 

 mous branches; leaves remote, linear, acutish, one-nerved, reflexed on 

 the margin, rarely four developed in a whorl, generally two of them 

 wanting or reduced to a tooth-shaped stipule ; flowers hermaphrodite, 

 panicled; peduncles straight, divaricate, solitary, twin, or several toge- 

 ther; pedicels very short ; lobes of the small yellowish corolla lanceolate- 

 ovate, much longer than the stamens; fruits glabrous, densely dotted. ■ 



Hab. Along the margin of the Murray and Avoca. 



Tliis insignificant herb may be considered a valuable acquisition to 

 the botanical system, inasmuch as it furnishes means of ascertainin 

 the true nature of the stipular leaves in StellatcB, proving apparently 

 that this tribe cannot be separated by natural characters from the Ru- 

 biaceous Order. 



or 



XXVIII, Composite. 



100. Erigeron conyzoides,* F. MuelL; perennial, smooth, somewhat 

 glabrous ; stem erect, herbaceous, leafy, below simple ; lower leaves lan- 

 ceolate, tri-nerved, tapering into a long petiole, remotely and sharply 

 serrulate, upper ones broad-linear, acute, quite entire, sessile ; flower- 

 heads panicled, hemispherical or campanulate ; scales of the involucre 

 linear-subulate, somewhat scabrous on the back; female flowers ex- 

 tremely narrow, whitish, flat, little longer than the disc ; achenia com- 

 pressed, oblong, scantily hairy, hardly half as long as the pappus. 



Hab. Sources of the Murray and Snowy Eivers (4-5000 feet). 



101, Calotis (Sect. Eucalotis) glandnlom, F. Muell. ; pubescent from 



* Scarcely differiBg from JF. Bonariensis, L.— Ed. 



