266 XCVIII. PARONYCHIACES. [ Seleranthus. 
f . S. Wal Blue Mountains, Miss Atkinson; Ben Lomond, Mount Mitchell 
in sources of quema river, Beckler, (F. Mueller), I have seen none of these spe- 
cimen 
Victoria. Abundant on the alpine and subalpine Mees and TEE throughout 
the ewm irm the en ^at descending to 3000 or rarely to 2000 ft., F. P. 
rt Dalrymple, 2. Brown ; common on dy grassy res on stones, 
&oc., J. D. p 
The species is Lis in New Zealand. Mniarum fascicula R. Br. Prod. 412, 
row Ic. 3d i 283, DC. Prod. iii. ne or Scleranthus pene Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 
42, appears to be rather a state of t plant with the peduncles remaining shorter 
than the din than a distinct variet an 
Stamens 2, the filindáfe T dilated, the conn ad membrane 
L4 oue or DT ii. 978; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 42; 
F. Muell. Pl. Vict. 
N. S. Wales. ns ud Backho ; 
„Victoria. Subalpine meadows Futura Ssi ramifications of the Australian alps, 
c Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; dry banks, pastures, eue Launceston, 
nn. 
F. Mueller mentions a desert variety flowering the first rum ceni the Murray and 
Wimmera rivers and Lake Alexandrina, which I have not 
T eaves very ri 
ince ms sie ł in. long. Boduncles in in the upper 
earing a head of “ate sessile flowers. Bracts lanceolate, 
cheeses shorter than the flowers. Perianth about 2 me 
ong, the lobes lanceolate, very iet longer than the tube, 
least at the margin. Stamens 5, the filaments filiform oppostt 
perianth-lobes and alternating with as ums! filiform or flattene 
nodia as long as the stamens. Ovary E into a rather long "le 
—DC. Prod. iii. 978; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. i. 216. 
goria. Barren ridges and wastes of the WE western district, F. Muell 1 
S. Australia. Ner ove, R. Brown; Murray Scrub, Flinders' Range “is 
Spencer's Gulf, F. Mue ke 
pak - Australia ? King George’ s Sound, Herb. Hooker., but — some mist 
I have not seen any of F. Mueller's specimens. 
