82 VIII. ciiuciFER.E» [Capella. 



elliptical-ovate, aljout 2 lines long, and less compressed ttan in Cproctmhens, 

 tlie septum not twice as long as Lroad, and as broad at least as tlie transverse 

 diameter of the fruit. Ovules usually 6 to 8 in each cell, of which only 3 or 

 4 come to maturity. — Ilutddnsia australis. Hook, f, YL Tasm. i. 23, t, 4; 

 Capsella antipoda, F. Muell. PL Vict, i. 44. 



Victoria. Mount Macedou, summit of Mount Alexander, and in the Black Forest, 



F, Mueller, r\ tt h - 



Tasmania. Not iinfrcquent in dry stony places, Lnt easily ovcrloolved, /, B. Iiookei- 

 Drahapumllio, R. Br. in DC. Syst. Veg. i. 353, from the minute specimens in the Banksiau 



herbarium appears to he either C.j^rocuynhens or C. austraUs^ in a very youug dwarr sta e. 



3. C, pilosula, Z Madh PL Vict. i. 44. A small erect annual, pu- 

 bescent with short simple or stellate hairs, v,'ith imraerous branches, often de- 

 cumbent at the base, 1 to 3 in. high. Leaves small, obovate or lanceolate, 

 entire, toothed or with a few lobes. Flowers small, white. Fruiting racemes 

 rather rigid, with spreading pedicels shorter than the pod. Pods oval-obloijo 

 or cuneate, emarginate with short, rounded, but not winged lobes, lateia j 

 compressed, about 2 lines long, glabrous, the stigma sessile in the uotC'Y 

 septum narrow, verj^ thin ; valves boat-shaped and keeled, but not wmge ^ 

 Ovules 6 to 8 in each cell. Seeds few, without mucus when soaKca. 

 Microlepidium pilosiilum, F. Muell. in Linnsca, xxv, 371. 



Victoria. Sandy desert, oiv the Murray, rare, P. MueUe) . I find the pod-valves hollo^v 

 to the top in this species as iu C. Bursa-pa^ioris. 



a Barsa-i^asloris, Mcench ; DO. Prod. i. 177 -, Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. ii. t. U, ao ^rect 

 animal, oi'teu above a foot high, the radical leaves usually spreading and pinnatifid, those o 

 the stem few, narrow, clasping with projecting auricles* the pods triangular ouTieate, muc^ 

 compressed in a long loose raceme ; of European or Asiatic origin, but now one of the com- 

 moviest weeds nearly all over the globe without the tropics, has also established itselt i 

 cuUivatcd places iu several of the Australian colonies. 



13. SENEBIEBA, Polr. 



Sepals short, spreading, equal at the base. Petals short. Pod laterally 

 compressed, orl)icular or broader than long, either indchiscent or separatiiio 

 iJito two nuts, each with a single seed. Embryo bent in a circle, or t^^^^' 

 dicle incumbent on the back of the cotyledons, but with the bend above tU^ 

 attenuated base of the cotyledons, not at their junction with the radicle- 

 Annuals or biennials, much branched and usually prostrate. Leaves entire o 

 pinnately divided. Flowers very small, iu short leaf-opposed racemes. ^ 



There ai'c several species dispersed over the warm as well as the temperate regions bo 

 of the New and the Old World, and more especially near the sea, the following ones exteu 

 ing to Australia. 



Pods 1 Ihic broad, slightly wrinkled, on slender pedicels. 



Leaves linear, entire .*..,...,.,' 1. 5. integrifoHa. 



Leaves pinnate * . . \ \ \ \ \ %. S. didyma, ^ 



Pods 2 hues broad, deeply wrinkled, sessile or nearly so . . , S, Coronopus (p- »*^^* 



1. S. integrifolia, LC. in Mem, Soc. Hid, Nat. Far, an 7, 144, t^^^ 

 and Syd. Veg, ii. 5 22. A rigid, glabrous, somewhat glaucous annual (or 

 ennial?), usually decumbent, and very much branched. Leaves linear, usna^j^ 

 acute, i to 1 in, long or rather more, narrowed into a petiole, quite entive 



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