108 ADDITIONS TO TASMANIAN FLORA. 



80, ovate, blunt, 1 line long ; pedical slender, 1 line long. 

 Stamens 8, filaments slender, f line long, anthers pink, 

 broadly ovate small. Pistil rudimentary, but well developed. 

 Female flower similar to the males, but the perianth lobes 

 slightly longer and red at the base. Stamiuodes small, 8. 

 Pistil flask- shaped, longer than broad obscurely, 3-lobed, 

 tapering iuto a short style ; stigma capitate, tuberculate 

 irregularly 3-lobed. Ovule solitary aud occupying the entire 

 ovarian cavity at time of flowering. Fruit not seen. 



Among and about basalt rocks on the shores of Lake 

 Lucy Long on the Ironstone Kange and on .the banks of the 

 South Esk, near Avoca. 



Rumex dumosus, A. Cunn. — Basal leaves few, soon withered, 

 oblong narrow pointed, constricted as in B. 'pulcher, petiole 

 •as long as leaf. Stem leaves sessile, small slender subtend- 

 ing branches and flower clusters. Stem erect, very branched 

 and spreading. Flowers very few together in distani; clusters, 

 often solitary, pedicels slender 1 — 2 lines long. Inner 

 perianth segments becoming rigid, acute, and reticulated 

 bordered with few, usually 2, prominent spines, not 

 developing a tubercle. 



Occasionally found on the roadsides in many parts of 

 Tasmania, and probably introduced from the mainland, where 

 it occurs in south-eastern districts. It is confined to Aus- 

 tralia, unless it is, as Von Mueller considered, a form of 

 R. flexuous, Sol., of New Zealand. This dock may easily be 

 taken for JR. pulcher or R. hrownli, from both of which it 

 ■differs, however, in the much more branched habit, few 

 flowers in the clusters, and fesv spines to the margins of the 

 mature inner perianth lobes. 



