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GunniaTKS. N. O. Umbellifera. 



TAB. CCC. 



Caldasia akgentea. J. Hook. 



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Puicherrime argenteo-serlcea, pedlcellis tomentoso-sericeis in- 

 volucro vix longioribus, fructibus ovatis acuminatis demum 

 glabriusculis. 



Hab. Middlesex Plains, Van Dieman's Land. Feb. 1837. 

 Ronald Giinn^ Esq. (w. 823.) 



An extremely beautiful species, owing to the silvery silkiness 

 of the whole plant; the fruit only, v^hen ripe^ being nearly desti- 

 tute of hairs. It was gathered at Middlesex Plains, by my in- 

 defatigable friend Mr Gunn aloi 



C. hrachycarpa* J. Hook, under the following circumstances: 

 "Middlesex Plains," says Mr Gunn, "were about 35 miles 

 from our head quarters on the Hampshire Hills and from the 

 nearest inhabited house, and over a mountainous country. A 

 very limited means of carrying a large collection of plants had, 

 I regret to say, the effect of reducing the number of each species 

 very considerably. All my specimens, tent, blankets, food, &c., 

 had to be carried on the backs of two men, and mercy toward 

 them induced me to load them with as few specimens as possible. 

 On my return to Circular Head, after an absence of a fortnight, 

 my collection of plants, after being partially dried, weighed 

 40 lbs., and had to be carried on a man's back from Emu Bay 

 to Circular Head, 61) miles; and the plants in question were 

 carried altogether on my servant's back, about 115 miles before 

 they were half dried." 



Fig. 1. Fruitj scarcely mature. /. 

 magnified. 



* C. hrachycarpa ; laxe pilosa, pedicellis pUoso-sericeis involucre subduplo 

 longioribus, fructibus ovatis acutis glaberrimis. (». 822.)— C. eriopoda (aI»o 

 found at Launcestoji) is Mr Gunn's n, 491 and 824. 



