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The introduced plants belonging to the genera, marked above with the asterisk *, are the 

 following, all European weeds ; — 



Verbasciim Blaitaria, Linn.; Benth. iu DC. Prod. s. 230. An erect coarse simple or 

 =^arcely branched biennial of 2 to 3 ft., either glabrous or slightly glandular-pubescent iu 

 the upper part. Leaves alternate, oblong, coarsely toothed or sinuate, the lower ones petio- 

 late, the upper ones sessile and som'etimes slightly dccurrent. Flowers yellow or raruly 

 white, in a long loose simple raceme, on pedicels' of 3 to 6 lines. Calyx deeply 5-clcft. 

 Corolla rotate, with 5 broad rounded lobes. Stamens 5, deelinate, the filaments woolly with 

 purple hairs ; anthers 1 -celled. Capsule 2-valved, with numerous small seeds.— N. S. Wales, 

 ^'ictoria, and S. Australia. V. virgatam, With. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 229, perhaps a 

 variety of F. Blattaria, differs in the greater abundance of the glandular pubescence and m 

 the pedicels of the flowers very shortj usually from 2 to 6 together within each bract.— 

 Victoria. 



Celsia cretica, Linn.; Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 244. An erect bieuulal with much the 

 habit of Yerbascum Blatlaria, pubescent and more or less viscid. Lower and radical leaves 

 I.vratc-piunatifid, upper ones cordate and stera-claspiug. Flowers yellow, larger than m 

 ^erhascirm Bfnttaria, sessile within each bract, in a long terminal loose spike. Calyx 

 divided into 5 broad serrate segments. Corolla rotate. Stamens 4, deelinate, the 2 upper 

 ones with woolly filaments and short reniform anthers, the 2 lower with much longer gla- 

 brous filaments and linear adnate anthers. Capsule 2.valved.— Naturalized on Buchan 

 river and Plenty Creek, Victoria, ¥. Mueller, ^ , ^ _ 



linana Elatine, Mill.; Benth. iu DC. Prod. x. 26S. A prostrate hairy annual with 



sieuder stems. Leaves alternate or the lower ones opposite, nearly sessile, ovate aud mostly 



angular or hastate at the base. Flowers small, solitary on slender pedice s m the axils of 



the upper small leaves. Calvx divided into 5 lanceolate segments. Corolla yellowish, the 



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inatta, n^oolh. 



Suborder I. SALPiGLOSSiDE^^.-CorolIa 5-lobed, tlie lobes more or less 

 induplicate or folded in the bud aud sometimes also slightly iinbricate, the 2 

 dipper ones (those next to the main axis of inflorescence) outside. Lmbr^o 

 often slightly curved. Inflorescence centrifugal. 



■ A3 already observed in De Caudolle's ' Prodromns.' this snborder might ^^^^^ f^^^^^ 

 ^ell be referred to Solanea, to several genera of which it is closely allied, but f^^^ll 

 ^»e constantly didynamous/with the fifth upper one reduced to a sterile f ^^"^f ^^^^ ^^ 

 "^ore frequently to a mere rudiment or entirely wanting. Miers proposes to »" Jejt w th 

 ^'^eral Solanea^ in an intermediate Order, Atropace^, but that appears to ^ne m^:her to in 

 "ease the difficulty of dving definite distinctive characters without establishing a moic 

 l^ataral distribution' h! considers, moreover, the two following Aus rahan gene a a. form < 

 "« with ^.//.,^,,,^, a very distinct tribe, remarkable for its ^^"^^^^-"^/^^^^^^^^^^^ 

 Y »^«ilocular reniform anthers occur in many Scrophulanneous genera <>^ f ™^^^^^^^ 

 ^^^^xamiaed in the bud, they are decidedly extrorse in several species at f ^ ^ f /^^^^^^ 

 ^^^remhergla. Anthotrocke also, notwithstanding a similarity ni ^^^^^ ^'.ff^ \^^f ^^^^^^ 

 ^J Dubohia and Antkocercis in inflorescence and in the perfect regularity of the flovNcrs 



^^ equal development of the five stamens, 



1. DUBOISIA, E. Br. 



. Calyx 5-tootlied. Corolla ovate-campanulate, the lobes broad, indupllcate 

 S'lt^ebud. Stamens 4, didvnamous, iucluded in the tube the upper ones 

 ^^elongest, the fifth uppermost one reduced to a minute rudunent ; an tie s 

 "^e^'form, turned outwards at least when fully out, the cells confluent at the 



y^- Stigma slightly dilated and 2-lobed. Frmt an "^^'f f^^^^^X " 

 ^eeda few. curved, with a crustaceous tnbercular-rugosc testa; embiNO 



