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N. S. "Wales. Poi-t Jackson, 7?. Brown, Woolls ; frequent in rather moist pastures ia 

 tie western country, ^. C7««??%//^/»; head of the Gwydir, i^zcAW/. 



Victoria. I have seen no specimens from this colony, where, however, it is, no doubt, 



to be found. t -n tt i 



Tasmania. Pastures, especially in the northern parts of the island, J. D. moker. ^ 

 S. Australia. Memory Cove, R, Brown ; grassy plains, Barossa range, and Spencer s 



Q\Al, F. Mueller, ^^^^ „. _, , ^^^ , 



-W, Australia. Shady rocks, Mount Brown, Preiss, n, 2395 ; King George s bouud, 



Bald Island, and Cape Naturaliste, Oldjield. ■ i c \ ' fnr 



The s])ecies extends to New Zealand, and probably also to estratropical h. America, lor 

 A, montevidensis, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. ii. 265, appears to be quite the same. 



3. A. sanguisorbse, VaJd; DC. Prod. ii. 492. Stems prostmte or 

 creeping and rooting at the nodes, the flowering brandies ascending from a 

 few in. to nearly 1 ft., loosely silky-villons, leafy at tlie base. Leaflets irom 

 nearly orbicular and \ in. long to oblong and f in., pronunentlv toothed, 

 glabrous or nearly so above, silky-hairy underneath. Flowers numerous, m 

 dense globular beads, on long terminal peduncles, usually under i m. diametei 

 at the time of flowering, becoming when in fruit dense globular burrs ot 4 m- 

 diameter or more. Calyx-lobes usually 4. Stamens 2. Style with the tringea 

 stigma of J, ovina. Fruiting calyx nearly 2 lines long, turbmate, the lone. 

 4-angled, with a long prickle barbed at the end, diverging from near 

 summit of each angle.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasra. i. 114 ; J. sarmentosa, t.armicti. , 



DO. 1. c. 



N. S. "Wales. 



Port Jackson, J : Cunning /mm ; Blue Mountains M^^^^'^'^^^^^^^^ 

 head of Gwydir river, Leickkardl ; Hastings river, Beckler ; southward to lllawaua, 

 Cunningham ; Gabo Island, Maplestone, 



Victoria, Port Phillip, K Brown; near Sl^ipton, J. S. Whan. . 



Tasmania. Port Dalrj^mple, R. Brown; common in pastures on roadsiucs, •. 



tliroua;hout the colony, J. D. Hooker, • - / 



S.Australia. Kangaroo Island, R, Brown; Guicheu Bay and Torrcns n^; , 



Mueller, * n V- Isle* 



The species is also found in New Zealand, Tristan d'Acuuha, and Lord ^weklaim b^ -' 

 and it is perhaps not really distinct from the S. American A. ovalifoUa, Ruiz an 



f 3. A. montana, Iloolc.f. in Hook, Land. Journ. vi. 276. / ^'"jJJ^^^ 

 cies, tufted or shortly prostrate, glabrous except a few silky hairs 01 ^^^^^ 



ascenaingj leaness or wiin 1 or si smaii uisium pinnnlifid or p *■ . 

 and a small terminal globular head, rarely above \ in. duunete • ,^^j^ 

 nearly glabrous, the lobes ovate, separating from the base and J^^^^^.^^j^ 

 duous. Stamens 2. Stigma short. Fruitingcalyx not 1 ^'^^'^l^^j^^ calyx- 

 glabrous, with 4 slender spines not 1 line long, and the top 

 tube conical between them. ^,,m, 



Tasmania. Jloist summit of the Tahle Mountain on the Derweat, ij- ^ j p. 



mit of Mount Welhugton, /. D. Hooker, and of Mount I^^peyrouse 6.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 



Hooker. Fl. Tasm. i. 115, unites this as a variety with J. ^^^.'^'^^'J'^''^^^" ^"^V -^/it nearer 

 of the foliage, the fruiting calyx appears to me to be quite ditferent, and to j ^^^^ 

 to A, adscendens, Vahl. R. Brown's herharium contains specimens ^\.^^^J Montana, ^^ 

 ot A, sa7iguisorbay from the Tahle Mountain, growing in company with 

 quite maintaining its characters, as pointed out in his notes. t gf 



Potenum Sanguisorha, Linn., a herb with the hahit and globular inflorescence 



