r 



Goodenia.'] Lxiv. goodexovie.^:. 03 



N, S. Wales. Between the Murray and Darling rivers, Victoria and other E.rpe- 

 diiiods. 



Victoria. Port Phillip, U. Broiv7i and others ; near Melbourne, T, Mueller^ Adamson ; 

 Portland, ^//i^^; Grampians, Wilhelmi ; ^ immcrsi, Datlac/i^. 



Tasmania. Rocky Cape, GiiTin. 



S. Australia. Port Lincoln, R. Brown^ Willi ehni ; from the Murray to St. Vincent's 

 and Spencer's Gulf, F. Mueller and others. 



^V, Australia, Brammondy n. 405 ; Mount Barker, Bremer Bay to Phillips Flats, 

 Maxwell, 



In the Tasmanian specimens, and most of those from the neighhourhood of Melbourne, 

 the indumentum consists entirely of simple hairs, or with a little wool at the base of the 

 leaves. lu the var. primnlacea (G. primulacea, Schlecht. Linnpea, xx. 601 ; De Vr. 

 Goodcn. 158), there are a few, or scarcely any simple hairs, and the foliage is more or h'ss 

 clothed with a short and close or longer and looser intricate cottony wool. This is the com- 

 monest form in South Australia^ N.W. Victoria, and on the Murray. In a third var., erio- 

 phf/Ua {SccEvola geniculata, De Vr. in PI. Preiss. i. 404 ; Goodenia affais, De Vr. Goodcn. 

 137), the leaves are large, thick, and soft, and the whole plant is covered with a long, shagiry 

 wool. To this belong the W. Australian and some of the S. Australian specimens, tiome 

 of Brown's from Port Lincoln pass into a fourth variety, rolusta^ with the wool of erio- 

 Jiliylla^ but with stout, almost erect stems \ to nearly 1 ft. high, the scapes or peduncles 

 both radical and axillary as in the other varieties. 'This, which, at first sight, would be 

 taken for a Tery distinct species, we have from Wimmera, Dallachi/ ; Lake Koorong, Eerh, 

 P' Mueller; and Marble Range, Wilhehni. 



21. G, lanata, U, Br. Prod, 577. Very near tlie vai-. primuhcea of 

 G- geniculata,\M\i\i the same inclQinentum, peduncles, and flowers, but the 

 rootstock appears to be less creeping, the stems usually elongated, prostrate, 

 and often rooting at the nodes, and the leaves ore miich broader, mostly ob- 

 ovate, and more deeply toothed.— DC. Prod. vii. 514; De Vr. Gooden. 146. 

 t. 26. ^ ' 



W. S. "Wales. New England, C, StuarL 



Victoria. Gleuelg river, Ballarat, Eureka, Bunip Creek, F. Mueller; Creswick Dig- 

 gings, Whmi, 



Tasmania- Port Dalrymple, R, Broicn; common in dry pastures, /. D. Hooker* 

 . J. D. Hooker (Fl. Tasm. i. 232) unites this with the northern G. kederacea, from which 

 it appears to me to diHer in the cal>x and bracteoles as well as in iudnmentum. F. Mueller 

 tmites it with G. genimlaia^ to which it is certainly closely allied, but I have never seen 



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^"^ *'' "*"» ^> gemcuiaia^ to wnicn it is ceriaimy ciubci^ iiiucu, uut x «".». ..^.^. . 



aj^y forms of that species with prostrate stems and broad leaves approaching those 



22. G. hederacea, Sm, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 349. A perennial, with 

 a thick hard often woody stock and long trailing rather slender stems, often 

 rooting at the nodes, and sometimes ascending or nearly erect to the height 

 of 6 ill. or more, the whole plant sometimes clothed with a very close white 

 tomentum, which is rarely wanting on the under side of the leaves, the 

 ^pper side soon becoming glabrous. Leaves petiolate, obovate or orbicular, 



usually irregularly toothed, cuneate or cordate at the base, the upper floral 

 ones sometimes narrow-ovate or spathulate and entire. Peduncles slender, 

 axillary, usually exceeding the leaves, 1- to 3-flowered. Bracteoles small 

 and naiTow, at a distance from the flower. Calyx-tube very uarrow-turbi- 

 uate, prominently 5-ribbed, the lobes narrow and acute. Corolla slightly 

 jomeutose outside, ^ to f in. long, the upper lobes separated low down, 

 dissepiment of the ovary reaching far above the middle. Capsule ovoid. 



