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ADDITIONS TO TASMANIA^ FLOEA, II. 



[By L. Eodway.] 



Before the year closes I should like to -plsice on record 

 sundry additions to the known plants of Tasmania, found in 

 the yicinitj of Greorge's Bay by Mr. Wm. Fitzgerald. Thej 

 have been verified by Baron von Mueller. 



Claytonia pygmcea, F. v. M. This plant is about the size 

 and general habit of its near relation, the common Tasmanian 

 C calyptratR, from which it can be at once distinguished by 

 its less elongated inflorescence and larger sepals. Subsequent 

 to flowering the sepals close over the caj)sule, completely 

 burying it between their thick, fleshy masses. 



Hydrocotyle capillaris, F. v. M. As small and somewhat 

 resembling H. tripartita (E. Br.), only the leaves are not so 

 deeply divided ; usually divided half way to the petiole into 

 three entire lobes. The fruit is very distinct; the intermediate 

 ribs are prominent, and the space between them and the dorsal 

 rib is filled with a spongy-pitted formation. 



Schoemis turhinalus, Poiret. This very distinct sedge has, 

 up to the present, only been found in one or two situations, 

 by Fitzgerald. Its occurrence in N.S. Wales led to the sus- 

 picion that it had been introduced, but its distance from culti- 

 vation, together with the subsequent discovery in the same 

 district of Corysanthes bicalcarata and Schoenus brevifolius, 

 both also natives of New South Wales, considerably raises its 

 claim to be indigenous. The inflorescence of this plant differs 

 from other Tasmanian members of the genus by being col- 

 lected in tolerably dense beads. In general appearance it 

 aj)proaches Carj^ha alpina more than any other of our sedges. 



Schoenus hrevifolius, E. Br. A tall sedge, with almost the 

 habit of a Eestio, the specimens found by Fitzgerald often 

 attaining 3ft. The inflorescence is in long, loose, iuterupted 

 panicles, often 6 or Sin. long. 



Gahnia fitzgeraldi. Plant densely coespitose ; stems 

 numerous from a creeping rhizome, about 2ft. high, slender, 

 terete ; outer leaves reduced to scarious sheathing scales ; 

 inner ones as long as, or shorter than, the stem, with sharply 

 involute margins, and long, subulate points, gradually jmssing^ 

 into the bracts subtending the branches of the panicle ; 

 panicle Sin. to 12in. long, interrupted branches arising few 

 together from distant bracts, unequal, u&ually elongated and 

 erect, bearing the spikelets freely distant from one another^ 



