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PAPERS READ. 



OCCASIONAL NOTES ON PLANTS INDIGENOUS IN 

 THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SYDNEY. 



No. 8. 

 By Edward Haviland. 



The subject of this paper is the plant Wahlenbergia gracilis. 

 It belongs to the order Cai/yxmulacece. 



This order, although abundant in genera in most other countries, 

 contains, so far as is yet known, but three in Australia. Bentham 

 (Flora Australiensis, Vol. IV.) gives four, Lobelia, Pratia, Isotoma, 

 and Wahlenbergia ; but Baron von Mueller (census A ustralian 

 Plants, 1882) reduces them to three by uniting Pratia and 

 Lobelia. Of the genus Wahlenbergia, there is but one species, 

 Wahlenbergia gracilis, as yet known in .New South "Wales ; and 

 this appears in all the Australian colonies, while in Tasmania 

 there are two, W. gracilis and W. saxicola ; both species being 

 also found in New Zealand. The genus seems to be almost 

 uninfluenced by climate. Bentham mentions W. gracilis as being 

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