Banimculifs.'] i. hanunculace^e, 13 



Tar. sulsericeus. Hairs all a])presscd and silkj. Leaves usually narrow, entire, 3-lobed 



or pinnately divided into 3 or 5 entire segments. Scapes l-flo\vercd. — Summits of the 



Australian Alps, F. Mueller, Tasinania, in the Hampshire hills and Western Mountains, 

 Guiin. 



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Var. 7Ui?iifs. Dwarf and neai'ly glabrous. Leaves all radical, usually 3-loLed or of 3 seg- 

 ments. Plowers small, on short scnpes.— 2?. ?7anzis. Hook. Journ. Bot, i. 242; Hook. f. FL 

 Tasm. 1, 7 ; B. caneatiis. Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 242 ; Hook. f. FL Tasm. 1, 8.— Austndlau 

 Alps, F.Mueller, Tasmania, alpine districts, summits of the Western Mountains, Arthur's 

 Lakes, etc., Gimn, 



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8. R, Muelleri, Benth. Allied to i?. lappaceiis^ var. snbsericenSj but the 

 aclienes are too different to admit of its being united in the same species, at 

 least until better known. Leaves all radical, undivided, entire or coarsely 

 S-toothed, oblong or cuneate, ^'to 1 in. long, very thick, covered on the upper 

 surface with long hairs proceeding from tubercles, and underneath with 

 nppressed short silky hairs. Scapes 1-flowered. Plowers nearly of ^. /s^- 

 paceiis. Sepals veiy obtuse, not half so long as the petals. Petals 5, naiTOw- 

 obovate, Achenes numerous, in a dense globular head, narrower than in R. 

 loppaceus, and attenuated into a rigid, straight, or scarcely hooked point. 



Vict 



oria. Summits of the Munyang mountains, F. Mueller, 



9. R. plebeius, R. Br, m DC. S^sL Feg. i. 288. Hirsute with spreading 

 or mrely nearly oppressed hairs, Eadical leaves on long petioles, digitately 

 divided into 3 deeply lobed aiid toothed cuncate or rhomboid segments. 

 Stems weak, decxmibent or erect, often abovfe a foot long and branched, with 

 a lew leaves, the lower ones more divided than the radical ones, with the pri- 

 mary segments petiolate, the others smaller, more sessile, and less cut. 

 Flowers several, small, on long peduncles. Calyx reflexed, shorter than the 

 petals, very deciduous. Petals obovate or oblong, seldom above 2 lines long. 

 Achenes few or numerous, more or less compressed, rather small, with a 

 hooked or recurved slender stvle,— Stoud. in PI. Preiss. i. 263; R. Idrtus, 

 ^anks and Sol. in DC. SySt. Yeg. i. 289; P. MueU. Pi. Vict. i. 8. 



^. S. "Wales. Port Jackson, 72. Brown, and norHiward to the Hastings river. _ 

 Victoria. Moe Swamp and Snowy River, Narracaii river and Baw-baw mountains, 



^y- Australia. la the interior, Treiss, n, 1348. 



ihe New Zeularid R, hirtus. Banks and Sol., appears to be a slight variety of this species. 

 A closely allied South African one has a rather different foliage, and the carpels often tuber- 

 cuiate or muricate, which never occurs in Australian specimcua; it passes under the name 

 ^^ i^-pinnatus, Poir., which was originally given to an East Indian plant, very near to and 

 perhaps identical with the Cape species and that again almost passes into some European ones ; 

 out 1 do not think that any excei)t the New Zealand R. hirtm can be' absolutely identified 

 "^^^"^^^^pleheins. 



. 10, R, rivularis, BanU and SoL in DC. Syst, Veg. i. 270. Stems crcep- 

 ^'^g or stoloniferous, producing at every node tufts of radical leaves and erect 

 ^capes, or weak slightly branched flowering stems, rarely fonning short 

 ihick rhizomes. Leaves oa long petioles, digitately divided into 3, 5, or 7 

 ^gments, varying from cuneate to narrow-linear, rarely entire, usually 3-lobed, 

 ^M sometimes mucli cut, but never pinnate, either quite glabrous, as well as 

 ' ^^e ^vhole plant, or rarely with a very few appressed hairs. Flowers yellow. 



