Cardamwe.'] vjii. cuuciFER^f:. 71 



form, and would iucludc some Victoria specimens, Robertson^ and South Australian ones from 

 Mount Barker creek, F. Mtceller. 



7- C. (?) eustylis, K MuelL in Trans, Fid, Inst. i. 114 ; PL Vict, i. 37. 

 An erect annual, mucli branclied from the base, scarcely exceeding 6 to 8 in. 

 ni height and quite glabrous. Leaves pinaately divided, the lower ones with 

 ovate segments, the others with narrower oncsfall usually with a few teeth or 

 lobes. Flowers smaller than in C. hirsufa, the petals' narrow, erect, and 

 scarcely exceeding the calyx. Fruiting racemes shoi-t, leafless. Pods rather 

 spreadmg, slender, 6 to 9 lines long, tipped by a style of \ to near 1 line, 

 tlie valves convex, smooth, without nerves. Seeds very numerous and small, 

 nuich narrower than the septum, and showing 3 distinct rows. 



W, Australia- On the rivers flovvitig into the Gulf of Carpeufaria, rare, /'. Mueller. 

 Victoria. Sandj mid gravellj bauks of the Murray river, F. 31ueller, 

 Ihe nearly cyluidrical pod and two-rowed seeds are iiioi-e those of Nasturliuid than of 

 tardamine, hut the hahit and white flowers may justify the placing the species in the latter 

 geuns. The degree of elasticity of the ViJves cannot he judged of in the di'ied specimens. 



5. ALYSSUM, Linn. 



(Meniocns, JDesv.) 



Sepals rather short, equal at the base. Petals rather short, entire or !)ifid. 

 stamens often bearing a tooth or small appendage on the filaraents of some 

 or all of them. Pod short, from nearly orbicular to oblong, very flat or tur- 

 g'd; the valves flat, concave, or turgid in the centre and flat on the margins, 

 the septum membranous] style short or long, with an entire stigma. Seeds 

 2 to 10 in each cell. Cotyledons aecumbent. — Branching herbs or small 

 shrubs, usually hoary with stellate tomentum. Leaves undivided, usually 

 linear, Bacemes without bracts, with white or yellow flowers. 



A large genus, dispersed over the temperate regions of the Old World, hut chiefly in the 

 ^leaiterranean region and western Asia. None are found in Amcnca, eastera Asia, ot in 

 ^e Pacific Islands. The ouly Australian species is identical with one common iti the eastern 

 Mediterranean region. 



. 1- A, linifolium, Steph. in Willd, Spec. PI ul 467. A small, but hard, 

 J^iry> and much-branched erect annual, hoarv, with a mimde, close, stellate 

 roincntum. Leaves linear, oblong-spathulate or almost obovate, mostly under 

 2 in., but the longest sometimes nearly 1 in. long, quite entire. Flowers 

 ^'»ute, very small. Pods orbhndar or broadly ovate, 2 to 3 lines long, nu- 

 Ji^tely hoary ; the valves flat and without nerves ; style small, subulate, 

 ^e^jds 4 to 6 in each cd\.~Meniocus lini/oUus, DC. Syst. Yeg. ii. 325 ; 

 ^eless. Ic. SeL ii. t. 42 ; M, serpyllifolius, Desv. ; DC. I. c- ; M. amtvala- 

 ^'^''^^ Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1S54, ii. 297. 



^^^{ ^"^^^"^^^^ Lacrosse Island. Camhridge Gnlf, N. W. coast, A. Cmninghm k 

 JJg^^^P^c»mcn, ^vith only portions of the pods remaining, hut apparently belonging to this 



«; S. 'Wales. Darling river, Victorian Expedition. 



Victoria. Murray river, and sand-hills near Lake Hindmarsh, F. M^reller. 



^Australia. Near Crystal Brook and about Spencer's Gulf, F Mueller. 



