^runonia.'] 



LXIV. GOODENOVIE.i;. 121 



1. B. australis, Sm. in Trans. Linn. S'oe. x. 367. ^. 28. A tufted per- 

 eumal, clothed in every part with lonp; silky hairs closely ajjprcssed in some 

 specimens, more frequently more or less spreading. Leaves radical, from 

 obovate to linear-cnneate, quite entire, softly mucrouate, contracted into a 

 petiole mostly 2 to 4 in. long. Scapes 6 in. to above 1 ft. hi-h, bearincr a 

 dense globular or hemisplierical flower-head of J to f in. diameter. Flowers 

 uuraerous, sessile, intermixed with bracts of which a few of the outer ones 

 are broad and leafy though not longer than the flowers, forming a kind of 

 involucre, the inner ones small and narrow, ciliate with long hairs ; there are 

 also close around each flower 3 or 4 concave truncate but jagged and ciliate 

 oracts of which at least the 2 innermost are scarious and trausiJarcnt. 

 Yiyx-tube very short, the lobes 1^ to 2 lines long, plumosc-ciliate, almost 

 always tipped with a glabrous pedicellate gland. Corolla blue, the tube 

 ^uear, hirsute, shorter than the calvx-lobes, the lobes oblong, i,dabrous, about 

 as long as the tube. Fruit small.— R. Br. Prod. 590; A. DC. Prod. xii. 



wiV fi i ^^- ^''^'^- '"■ 22^ ; ^ot- ^^S- t- 1S33; Paxt. Mag. vii. 267, 



5qn ^A°V< ■^^'•^■^•^«, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 367. t. 29 ; R. Br. Prod. 



•^*^i A. DC. Prod. xii. 616 ; B. simplex, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 83. 



ton 77^'^*/''?,^ ■ Sboalwater Bay, R. Brown. ; Keppel Islands, M'GiUivray; Rockharap- 



Bfttra^ „ " J T ,?^' ^t^el's Range and Lachlan river, A. Cunningham ; between tlie Upper 

 Vi '"'^.^^^f'laii rivers, L. Morton. 



Gleuef °*'^*f ^°'* -^'^^ll'P' ^- J^i-owri ; dry pastures from Melbourne to the mouth of the 

 Tas . ^^"^'■'^^ I-ake ilindmarsh, F. Mueller, Adamson, and others. 



thf cr.1 "*^^**- ^ort Balryniple, R. Broion i common in dry pastures in several parts of 

 S A ' ''^'' -^^ ^- looker. 



Gulf," ^/^r^^.H*" -^^S^^ ^^^"g^' Holdfast Bay. Black Forest, F. Mueller; St. Vincent's 



Chan.nmr.'^^*^^!^^' ^''^^'^ ^\\tr, Bmmmond, 1st ColL n. 417 ; Murcliison river and 

 "'iaipion Bay, Oldjleld. 



^^^^^rxZ'!" ^^'^ specimens have nsually 



longer llip r -f*^*^ luicus nave nsuauy sniaaer no\ver-iii;uus, >iiicic i-uc uano a**- 



*PPtar altoJ^fl^^^ (-'oncealed amongst them, and perhaps sometimes, but very rarely, dis- 

 ^te southe ' ^^^/oJ'mer state is most common in the northern districts, the latter in 



rn ones, but intermediate ones are also very frequent. 



Obder lxv. CAMPANULACE^. 



lobes^'* V^'^ n ^'^""^^ ^° ^^^ ^^'^^'' t'l^ ^"^^ ^^ 3 to 10, usually 5, persistent 

 the bu ] ?^ I'f'g'ilar or irrcguTar, with 3 to 10, usually 5, lobes, valvate ia 

 the CO, 11 ,^"'^"0"'^ often iuduplicate. Stamens as many as the lobes of 

 free fro '*' ' ™'''^*^ ^^^'^^^ them, inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, but 

 dinallv^f '^'' ^^^'^' ^^^^'^^ ^"^''*^ "'' ''^^^ "dtiate to it. Anthers opening longitu- 

 ^emisiin •'^ °"' '^"^^'''^ "^ ^ ""S round the style. Ovary inferior or rarely 

 ovules i^^^^i^^ ^''^^ except the broad base, 3- or more-celled, with numerous 

 ^fi-Tnati^ ?^ ^^^^' ^^^^^ simple, entire or divided at the top into as many 

 capsuj ^ -^ °^ branches as there are cells to the ovary. Fruit usually a 

 r«relv \ ^P.^°|"S ^^^^^"^ in short valves at the top or in lateral pores or slits, 

 often ve/ ^'^^^.^^'^^"t berry. Seeds numerous, small. Embryo straight, 



• smull, in a fleshy albumen. — Herbs or very rarely shrubs, with a 



