Samolus.'] Lxix. primulacej:-' 271 



S. Valerandi, I/ww. ; J)uLj/ in DC. Prod, nil 73. A glabrous, bright 

 green annual or perennial, witli a tuft of obovatc, spreading, radical leaves. 

 Flowering stems 3 or 4 in. to above 1 ft. higli, simple or branched, bearing 

 a few obovate or oblong leaves, and loose terminal racemes of small white 

 flowers. Pedicels filiform, with a small bract about the middle. Corolla 

 not 2 lines diameter and sometimes much smaller, the tube very short, Sta- 

 miiiodia linear, small. Capsule small, globular, crowned by the small calyx- 



lobes. 



N. S. Wales, Blue Mountains, E. Brown; Tweed river, C. Moore; Richinona 

 river, Faiccelt ; New Englaud, C. Stuart, 



Victoria. Clifton morass, Snowy River, F, Mueller, 



This species is common in most of the temperate and warmer regions of the globe, espe- 

 cially in maritime districts. The Australian specimens belong to the smallest tlouerea 

 variety, tthich has been considered by some as a distinct species, and is a common American 

 ^ut comparatively rare European form. 



2. S. repens, Pers. Syn. i. 171. A perennial, with a more or less 

 tufted stock emitting creeping stolons, but very variable m habit and 

 stature, glabrous or lioary with minute, almost scale-like glands, b ems 

 simple or branclied, sometimes prostrate, with most of the pedicels asillaij, 

 sometimes erect or ascending, 4 to 1 ft. high, leafy, with the flowers chiefly 

 collected in a short terminal raceme. Radical leaves petiolate, obovate or 

 oblong ; stem-leaves usually small, either linear or lanceolate and acute, or 

 oblong obtuse and petiolate. Pedicels long or short, without bracts except 

 the subtending one, which is often adnata to the pedicel, so as to appear in- 

 serted on it. Flowers variable in size, but usually spreading to 4 or a 

 lines diameter. Calyx-tube adnate to about the middle of the ovary ; Jobes 

 acute, longer than or of the length of the tube. Corolla-tube broad usually 

 about as long as the calyx-lobes ; lobes ovate, obtuse, as long as tlie tune, 

 Stamiiiodia filiform. Capsule half-inferior ; placenta stipitate, ovoid, encling 

 in a long horn-like point connected with the apex of the cavity, heeds nii- 

 «ierous, globular or angular.-- S-. littoralis, R. Br. Prod 428; ^'^^^l^ 

 PC. Prod. viii. 73 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 301 ; Xees m PL P'-e.^^^;.^- ^^4' 

 Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 435 ; Sheffiddia incana, Labill. PL Nov. Holl. 1. 40. t. 51. 



N- S. Wales. Near the sea, Port Jaclvson, M. BrOfm^nA otliei^ 

 Victoria. Along the coast frmn the Glcelg to Gipps' Land. ^^^.^^^'^Xir 

 Tasmania. Abundant along the coast, especially on_ salme mud J. f-/2''''^^ , 

 S. Australia. Port Lincoln. E. Brown ■ common m salt marshes and on rocks along 



the coast, F. MueHer and otiiers. ' ' ' , ,,,7, r,..,^„ - along the 



W. Australia. King George's Sound and Goose Island Bay, \^'^'"^" '."'""^Igj, 

 «oast from King George's Sound round to Swan and Murchison nvers, f ^'f .^ '^' ,"3 .S' 

 2^8, 656, Pret, n. 1241. Oldjield. and others, and eastward towards the Great B.^'t, 



, The species extends to New Zealand and New Caledonia It is f'^'f^.^^ 7hTfollovv- 

 Jtature, foliage, etc., and, besides the diversity indicated iu the above description, the lollow 

 'Bg forms, all from W. Australia, might almost be regarded as species. ■ 1 „cp 



Var. Jioriiundus. Erect and pauieulately branched, with numerons flovvers, m den^ 

 ^orymbose racemes. Leaves few. Calyx-lobes very acnte.-Murchisoa nver, U/dJieia. 



Siwan River, Pm,,,„. 1237. , Tl w.rs few 



Jar. ? paucifo?i^s. Erect, rigidly branched, 1 to H ft- Wgh- ^^^"'^ ^^^^'^ **'''" 

 ^id distant, on long pedundcs.— Swan and ?iIurchiso_n nvers. 



