306 LI. ONAGRARIER. (Epilobium. ` 
floral ones, sessile or on very short broad petioles, Hinia or lanceolate, acute, 
with a few distant teeth, mostly 1 to 2 in. long. Pedicels usually short, even 
D S mpians, F. Mue 
Tasmania. Common in vetas aud vei especially in the northern parts of the 
colony, J1 D. Hooker. 
S. i Meadows near Holdfast CN Mount Disappointment, Cox’s Creek, 
F. Mueller. 
3. rossrma, Linn. . 
Calyx-tube not produced above the een lobes 4, 5 or ëch Lee? 
terete or with as many or twice as many ribs or angles as calyx-lobes opening 2 
septicidally in valves separating from thes persistent ribs or irregularly be ; 
ibs. ds usu j or thik 
and spongy.— Herbs, sometimes aquatic, or rarely shrubs. 
entire or very rarely serrate. Flowers yellow or white, solitary in the axils; 
petals usually broad. 
The genus is chiefly American, both tropical and extratropical, a few species an S 
over trop sgi and subtropical Africa and Asia. "The Australian species are both of ; 
common e New as well as the Old. World. 
Creeping or pd plant. Flowers usually 5-merous, on nn 
longer than the ovary. . > LJ 
t plant 
Erect plant. Flowers mostly 4-merous, on ver short t pedicels or 
ost sessile . Pi : y . 9. J. sufrulicnt. 
_ LJ. re um eh KE Pl, 555, and Mant, 381. Herbaceous, ft. 
ing in mud or floating in water, often sustaining itself by little Mr 
ie? from a little ] onger to twice as Gë 
lengthening to about 3 in., and about 14 lines thick, smooth and shin 7 
usually sprinkled with a few SE the 5 erase ribs eee dës 
ones less so.— DC. Prod. 54; Wight in Hoo à 
Suppl. 40; J. Swartziana, DO. Lie Moreton 
» T 3 sland. Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; common in lagoons about 
uar ' j 
N. S. Wales. Richmond and Hunter’s rivers, R. Brown GE p 
warra, 4. ee ex inland ou the Darling, Victorian Ge ns 
Howitt's a edges Mueller. 
Victoria. Morasses of Snowy River -— — of Murrav river, F. 
S. Australia. Murray river, F. Mue 
