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Many peak river, Bfaxwell ; Perongerup RangGj F. Mueller, 

 The species is also in Kew Zealaud, 



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2.. M. suaveolens, Poir. Diet. Suppl. iv, 44. An erect but sometimes 

 weak perennial, forming a thick luird stock, the stems simple or h ranched, 1 

 to 3 ft. hi":h, the liairs lon^ and spreading on the stem and often on the 

 margins and midribs of the leaves, appressed on their surface. Leaves 

 oblong linear or lanceolate, mostly acute, sessile and broad at the base or 

 contracted into a short petiole, often dccurrent, the lower ones sometimes 3 

 or 4 in. long, the upper ones small. Flowers white or bluish, in simple or 

 bran(*hed racemes, at first dense, at length several inches long, the pedicels 

 short. Calyx-segments narrow, 3-nerved, usually about 2 lines long but 

 variable, hispid with hooked hairs. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx; 

 scales of the throat short and broad ; lobes broad, as long as the tube. Sta- 

 mens inserted in the throat ; filaments filiform ; anthers narrow-oblon^^ 

 wholly exserted as well as the style. Nuts shorter than the calyx.— P|^- 

 Prod. X. Ill; Hook. f. FI. Tasra. i. 279; ExarrJicna snaveoUvs,^. l>r- 

 Prod. 495 ; A. llich. Sert. Astrol. t. 29. 



lU. S. MTales, Frequent on rocliy margins of creeks in the Blue Mountains, A. Cun- 

 ningham. 



Victoria- Frequent in the Australian Alps, F, Mueller; Ballarat, Gleudinning- 

 Tasmania. Port Dalryiiiple, i?. Bjow7t: abundant in li^ht rich soil, ascendmg w 

 2000 ft., /, D. Hooker, 



ERITRICHIUM 



Calyx deeply divided into 5 segments. Corolla with a cylindrical tube, 

 the throat with 5 minute gihbosities or scales or quite naked, the luu* 

 spreading, 5-lobed. Stamens inserted in the tube, the anthers includet . 

 Ovary 4-lobed; style fihfonu, inserted between the lobes, with a simi| 

 usually capitate stigma. Nuts 4, ru2:ose or reticulate, erect, attached to tn 



There Is a considerable number of species dispersed over the temperate and n^^"°^^|"^Lp 

 regions of Europe aud Asia, and in America descending from the United States alon 

 line of the Andes to Chile. The only Australian one is endemic. The S^'^^^*' ffruit 

 billed to Jfgosotis and £c/iinosperm urn, having the same habit and flowers, with n»K 

 intermediate, as it were, between the two, the receptacle more prominent ^^''V'^f'^Zmex 

 ranch less so than iu Echinospermum, the nuts neither smooth and shining as m tne 



nor muncate as in the latter. 



I.E. australasicTim, A. DO. Prod. x. 134. Stems usuallv nuw 

 rous, tufted difTuse or ascending, rarely nearly simple and erect, mostly uni 

 6 m. long, the whole plant hispid, the hairs often yellowish on the )oWo 

 shoots. Leaves linear, obtuse, the lower ones sometimes almost opF'" ' 

 rarely exceeding i in., the upper ones smaller. Flowers very small O^^ite.;, 

 nearly sessde in the axils of the bracts, forming simple one-sided leafy spil^e-. 

 Calyx-segments very hispid, linear, scarcely 1 line long. Corolla scarce, 

 exceednig the calyx, the lobes shorter than the tube. Anthers small, ^'l 



