Cruci/ereu.] FLORA Of Tasmania. f8 
Distrib. South-eastern and Western Australia, throughout Europe, West Asia, Africa rod the 
Mediterranean region, Western Tibet, Afghanistan, and Patagonia. 
It is difficult to suppose that this plant is wild in Tasmania ami Australia, smug that its Furopcan and Asiatic 
range is quite normal, and that it docs m>t inhabit any purl of the Aim ri.-an CW An-iral'ian oontiw I 
civilization has extended. — A slender, annual or perennial, procumbent, dilfuselv-hranchcd. glabrous herb, with few 
leaves, and slender, often tle\uou- branches, a span long, running out into long fruiting raceme-. Leans 1 inch lorn:, 
spathulatc, lanceolate, entire, sinuate or pinnalilid. Flowers minute ; petals while. Ca^ah-x small, s \-, inch loiiir. 
on slender spreading pedicels ] inch long, terminated b\ \ > r\ -inn >traight -t\ie<. Valves obovate-obloug, n- 
ticulate, boat-shaped. Seed* few. 
2. Hutchinsia australis (Hook, fil.) ; pusilla, pilis ranm-is pub. rula, dill'iise ramosa, foliis petiolatis 
lanceolatis spathulatisve varie pinnatiscctis (primordialihus integris), lobulis obtusis, ramis subrobustis, Ho- 
ribus minimis, sepalis late obhmgis, petalis late obovaio--pailiulatis sepalis paullo long' \ 
ellipticis pedicellis strictis erecto-patentibus \ brevioribus, stylo brevissinio, valvis couravis reticulatis, 
seminibus majusculis 4-6 quovis loculo late oblongia fanicolu brevioaculis, cotyledonibui incnmbentiboe. 
{Gunn, 644.) (Tab. IV.) 
Hab. Not unfrequent in stony, dn places, but easih overlooked. Manpiarrie Plain-, I >i r\\ « itT, M - 
Ballantpie, Gunn, J. I). 1I.— (YL Oct.) {v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. 
8Um many, i'roni one annual root. Ltavet ]-\ inch long, entin OT rarioutlycut. Branch* rigid in fruit 
Flowers corymbose, very minute, white. Poth | inch long, elliptical, compr 
byMissBallantyne.— Plate IV. Fig. 1 i ad open ; 3, petal : l. stamen . :>. polhi 
7, pod; 8, the same with the valve- r 
moistened; 13, hairs : — all Magnified. 
Gen. VI. THLASPI, Bill en. 
Sepala 4, suberecta. Petala 4, integra, lamina diktats, 8tamma edentula. Silicula latere 
obcordata, valvis navicularibus, carina alatis. >< Mtna 2-\. iminarginata. ( UgleJoncs accumbente 
plerumque glabra ; foliis »S Honhus alb u 
member of the genu- inhabits the mountain- ol V - oi la-mania.- Uu 
European specie- is a- follow-. — Annual or perennial. L r i'in rah} ■-■■■■ i' 1 '> m r '-• "itli petioled radical leaves and am- 
plexicaule cauline ones. Flower* white, racemo-< - *w\\ an expanded m 
obcordate, much compressed laterally. Valve* boat-t H (Mffledom 
accumbent. (Name from 6\ao, to flatted ; in allnsion to tin compn Bsed pods.) 
1. Thlaspi? Tasmanicum (Hook, sub Hutchinsia ? Ic. PI. t. 848) ; annuum, digitale, hirsutulum v. 
glabratum, caule subsimplici, foliis integerrimis v. obscure dentatis radicalibus petiolatis spathulatis lanceola- 
tisve, caulinis sagittato-semiamplexicaulibus, petalis (albis) spathulatis sepalis oblongis duplo longioribus 
fructu immaturo obovato-obcorc^to, stylo columnari brevi, pedicello patente apice incrassato sessili, ovubs 
sub-8, funiculis curvis, valvis navicularibus. {Gunn, 204.) 
