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S I. -RANUNCULACE.^. [Clematis. ^ 



2. ANEMONE, Linn. 

 Involucre of 3 or more leaves or lobes either close to tlie flower or on tLc pe- 



3. MYOSimUS, Linn. 



Sepals usually 5, produced below tlieir insertion into a small spur. Petal 



narrow 





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Carpels 

 numerous, with one pendulous ovule in each. Achenes closely packed in a 

 long slender spike, flat on the back, or with a raised nerve ending in the short 

 persistent style. — Small annuals with linear radical entire leaves. Tlowers 

 very small, on lonflcss scapes, 



A genus comprising, besides the followiug, only one other species, 3/. aristatifs, Geyer, dis- 

 tinguished by the more prominent and spreading poiuta of the aehcnes, which allhough 

 ori.dnally described from North America aud from Chili, has also been found in New Zea- 

 land, and may not improhably appear in Australia. 



1. M. minimus, Linn,; DC, Trod. i. 25, Leaves sometimes not an 

 inch long, sometimes attaining; 2 or even 3 inches, including their long pe- 

 tiole. Scapes shorter or longer than the leaves. Sepals yellowish or pale 

 green, verj' small; petals rarely longer than the calvx, and in the Australian 



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W. Australia. KiDg George's Sound, Collie; Swau River^ Drummond; JPreiss, n, 

 1343. 



Var. occidentalis. Carpels narrower and seldom wrinkled, with tails often of 3 to 4 

 inches. Sepals usually long and narrow. — C. UnearlfoUa^ Steud. in PL Preiss. ii. 262, Ap- \ 

 parently the usual form in West Australia. 



Var. leptophylla, F, JIuelL Leaf-segments very small and narrow. Trailing over gra- 

 Bite rocts on the Snowy River aud Mitta Mitta, Z. Mueller, 





duncle below it. Sepals 4 to 20, petal-like. Petals none. Cai'pels indefinite, ^ 

 with 1 pendulous ovule in each, Achenes in a globular or oblong head, gla- 



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brous or woolly, pointed by the persistent style, Avhich is sometimes lengthened 

 into a bearded tail.^ — Herbs, \vith a perennial rootstoclv. Leaves radical, ciit 

 or lobed. Scapes radical, leafless except the involucre. ¥lowers terminal, 

 variously coloured, but not bright yellow. Stamens shorter than the sepals. 



A large genus, chiefly dispersed over the temperate or mountainons regions of the northern 

 hemisphere. A few species are found iu South America and southern. Africa, hut they are 

 further removed even than some of the northern ones from the Australian one^ which is 

 strictly endemic. 



1. A, crassifolia^ Hoolc, Ic. FL t, 357» "Radical leaves on rather long 

 petioles; segments 3, distinct but sessile, obovate or almost orbicular, from ^ 

 \ to \ in. long or rarely 1 inch, more or less deeply divided into 3 or more 

 broad obtuse lobes, thick and almost succulent or coriaceous, glabrous or 

 sprinkled with rigid appressed huii's. Scape G to 8 in. high, clothed with 

 appressed hairs, especially in the upper part. Involucre rather above the 

 middle, irregularly divided into 2 or 3 sessile lobed segments. Sepals usually 

 6 or 7, white, ovate or obovate, -| to | in. long. Achenes in a globular head, ^ 

 glabrous, rather inflated, terminating in a glabrous point about two lines 

 long, hooked at the extremity. — Hook. f. Y\. Tasm. i, 4.i 



Tasmauia. Mountains of the Black Bluff range and west of Cape St. Clair, at au ele- 

 vation of 4000 to 5000 feet, Gunn^ MilUgan, 



