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PAPERS READ. 



OCCASIONAL NOTES ON PLANTS INDIGENOUS IN 

 THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SYDNEY. 



No. 8. 

 By Edward Haviland. 



The subject of this paper is the plant Wahlenhergia gracilis. 

 It belongs to the order Camqoanulacece. 



This order, although aVjundant in genera in most other countries, 

 contains, so far as is yet known, but three in Australia. Bentham 

 (Flora Australiensis, Vol. IV.) gives four, Lobelia, Pratia, Isotoma, 

 and Wahlenhergia ; but Baron von Mueller (census A ustralian 

 Plants, 1882) reduces them to three by uniting Pratia and 

 Lobelia. Of the genus Wahlenbergia, there is but one species, 

 Wahlenhergia gracilis, as yet known in N ew South Wales ; and 

 this appears in all the Australian colonies, while in Tasmania 

 there are two, W. gracilis and W. saxicola; both species being 

 also found in New Zealand. The genus seems to be almost 

 uninfluenced by climate. Bentham mentions W. gracilis as being 

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