I 



yeronlca.'] Lxxxiii. scropiiularine^. 511 



13. V. notabilis, F, MnelL Herb, Stems from a creepiag^ or decum- 

 bent base, ascending or erect, 1 ft. higli or more, often much stouter than in 

 the preceding species, loosely pubescent or hirsute. Leaves petiolate, ovate- 

 lanceolate or lanceolate, acute and acutely toothed, 1 to 3 in. long. Kacemes 

 in the upper axils loose, 3 to 8 in. long, the pedicels usually longer than the 

 calyx. Calyx-segments rather acute, 2 lines long when in flower, leugtheu- 

 ing to 3 lines in fruit. Corolla not much exceeding the calyx, but not seen 

 very perfect. Capsule shorter than the calyx, broad, truncate or slightly 

 notched. 



N. S. "Wales. Grose river, K Broioi ; Clarence river, Bechler ; near Berwid', 

 Johnson; Illawarra, ^. Cunningham, 

 Victoria. Shady places, Dandenong Eanges, and Sealer's Cove, rare, F. Mueller. 



Tasmania. St. Patrick's River, Gtuin. 



This species, which had been determined by A. Cunuingham to Lethe F". argnfa of Brown, 

 and was included uuder that name hy myself in ihe 'Prodromus' and by Hooker m the 

 'Tasmauian Flora,' proves to he very ditlereut from Brown's plant, and apparently as distinct 

 a species as any of the Chamadri/s group in Australia except F. nivea. 



Sect. III. VEiiONiCASTUUz^r. — Annual or perennial herbs, usually decum- 

 Ijeut or small. Stem-leaves opposite, passing into the alternate floral leaves 

 or bracts. Eacemes or spikes terminal, simple, the lower bracts leafy like 

 the stem-leaves. Capsule compressed, opening loculicidally on the edges, the 

 valves cohering in the centre to the narrow placental column, 



14. V. serpyllifolia, Linn.; BentJi. in BO. Prod, x. 482. A peren. 

 nial with sliortly creeping- veiy much branched stems, forming a small^ flat 

 deus eleafy tuft, the flowering branches ascending from 2 in. to nearly i \i., 

 the whole plant minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous. Lower leaves 

 shortly petiolate, the upper ones sessile or nearly so, ovate, obtuse, slightly 

 creuate, rarely exceeding \ in. Plowers very small, of a pale blue or white 

 with darker streaks, on pedicels of 1 to \\ lines or rarely nearly sessde in a 

 simple terminal raceme or spike, the subtending bracts, especially the lower 

 ones, rather lar^^e and leaf-like and passing into the stem leaves. Oalyx but 

 little more than 1 line long at the time of flowering, somewhat enlarged m 

 fruit. Corolla scarcely exceeding the calyx. Capsule broad, compressed, 

 often rather deeply notched. 



N. S. "Wales. New England, C. Stuart. ht + ■ . ..;! nf1..r^ of 



Victoria. Sno^Ty and Upper Mitta Mitta risers, Munyong Mountains, and otlieis ot 



the Australiau Alps at an elevation of 4000 to 5000 ft., F.Mueller. . 



TK^ • • - +^o ♦r.mTiPrifp anil colder regions of both the northern ana 



A he species is common lu the tempeiate anu coiuei ic^iu i i • m^iirifniTi 



southern hemispheres ascending to high latitudes and great elevatioas, and al.o m mouutam 

 ranges within the tropics. 



15. V. peregrina, Linn.; Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 483. An annual 

 with erect or ascending stems, simple or brancliinn^ at tlie base glabrous or 

 minutely glandulur-pnbescent, usually about 6 in. liigh, but lengtliening occa- 

 sionallv to 1 ft. Radical and lowest leaves petiolate and ovate but soon 

 dying off, the others sessHe. oblong or linear, entire or semte, ''^^^^V ^f""^^' 

 i"g i in., passing into smaller alternate linear floral leases or bracts, riowers 

 small, pale blue or white, sessile in the axils of the floral leaves or bract=, 



