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XIJ. ROSACE.E. [Jtlthus. 



N. S. Wales, Grose river, R. Broivn ; Blue Mountains, Miss uiiJct7tson ; Richmuuil 

 an.l Clarence rivers, 0. Moore; from the Creek Brush to Archer's ^X^iiow, Ldchhardt ; 

 southward to Illawarra, A. Cunningham^ Backhouse, Rahion, • 



The nearest affinity of this species is with the New Zealand R. austrahs, Forst., but the 

 leaves of the latter species, although protean in their forms, never quite resexnble those of 

 R. Moorei; the flowers are much smaller and very much more uumerous, m large pa- 

 nicles, etc. 



Several species of Rosa are cultivated in gardens, and one, Rosa rMhiginosa, Linn., the 

 Sweetbrlar, with glandular-pubescent aromatic leaves and pink flowers, is said to have csta- 

 hlished itself, apparently wild, iu South Australia, 



6. AliCHEMILLA, Liim. 



Calyx-tube ovoid or campanulate ; lobes 4, valvate, with 4 small external 

 accessary lobes alternating with thena. Petals none. Stamens 4 or fewer, 

 inserted round an annulnr disk at the mouth of the calyx. Carpels 1 to 4, 

 enclosed in the calyx-tube, Avith 1 ascending ovule in each; style from the 

 base or inner side of the carpel, protruding from the calyx-tube, with a capi- 

 tate stigma. Achenes 1 to 4, 1-seeded, enclosed in the calyx-tube.— Herbs, 

 either annual or with a perennial sometimes almost woody stock and annual 

 flowering stems, or, in species not Australian, perennial tufted undershrujs. 

 Leaves palmately lobed or divided. Flowers small, green, in terminal panicles 

 or axillary clusters. 



The genus is not numerous in species, widely spread over the northern l*e^"i^P|'^J"Yr" 

 fined to mountains within the tropics, extending down the Andes to extratroincal ^- 

 rica, one or two species found also in S. Africa and New Zealand. The two Austrai 

 species are common in temperate or mountain regions, especially in the Old vVoi . 

 Perennial. Flowers in terminal panicles. Leaves orbicular, hroadly lobed 1. ^' '^^9 

 Small annual, llowers minute, in axillary clusters. Leaves small, deeply f-^eiisii- 



lobed ■ ^. -^- 



1. A. vulgaris, Linn.; DC. Trod. ii. 589. A perenmal, eitlierjja- 

 brous or more or less hairy. Radical leaves large, on long P'-'^^ ,'.?'" jjj 

 orbicular or reniforra, divided only to one-fourth or one-third of theu- ae 

 into 7 or 9 broad regularly toothed-lobes, green on both sides, x^ ^^ 



stems decumbent or ascending, seldom above 6 in. bigli, bearing a itiw ^ ^^ 

 on short petioles, with large green toothed stipules and a loose P^^^^^j^^j^j^ 

 small green flowers, the pedicels usually at least as lung as the calyx. d 

 Ic. t. 229. .^^^^ 1^ 



Victoria. Haidinger range, sources of the Mitta-Mitta, Murray, ^^^^^T![a"ani the 

 the Australian Alps, F. Mueller. The species is commoa in Europe, JN. Asi , 



A little annual, rarely 



mountaios of E. India. 



2, A. arvensis. Scop,; DC. Prod, ii. 590. A little «^"^";';;j |^,i,y. 

 above 2 or 3 in. high and often smaller, much branched, green, ^^^^^^^^,^^.3 

 Leaves on short petioles, orbicular, usually deeply lobed or "^!| *;*.i ^ jemes, 

 very minute, green, sessile, in little clusters or heads in the axils 

 half enclosed in the leafy stipules. 



Victoria. Mount Korong, -P. Mueller; Wendu Valley, Rohertsoiu 



S. Australia. Mouutaio pastures, RivoU Bay, F, Mueller. ^ nrobabW i^^^^' 



wPTit rivpr R nrmr». - vnrinllS Oarts of thc iSlaud, pro 



mania. Derwcnt river, R, Brown ; various part 



duced, J. J). Hooker, ^ , j^^ variolic pa* 



The species is common in the northern hemisphere in the Old u orld, an 



