Onayraria.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 1 I :, 
Var. 0. montana; minor, glabrata, petalis interduin liberis.— Aeama montal , 
Bot. vi. 476. {Gunn, 1064.) 
Hab. Common in pastures and roadsides, etc., throughout the Colony. — (Fl. Not.) Var. j& Mount 
Wellington, elev. 3-4000 feet. {v. v.) 
Distrib. South-east Australia, from Sydney to Victoria; New /.aland, Lord Auckland's bland. 
Stems trailing, a span to 2 feet long. Branches erect or ascending, lemm 2-t> inches long, -ilk> at almost 
glabrous; leaflets four to ten pairs, obovate-oblong or rounded, obtuse, coarsely ineiso-scrrate, }-l inch long. 
Scapes 4 inches to almost a foot long, often with one or two small leaves. Heads variable in size. •_. 
more than £ inch diameter. Calyx-tubv four-angled, with tour rigid purple spines \ inch long, barbed at the tip*. 
Petals four. Stamens two. Stigmas dilated, fimbriated.— The natives of the Middle Island of New Zealand us, 
a decoction of the leaves of this plant as a medicine 
2. Acsena ovina (A. Cunn. in Field's N. S. W.) ; sericeo-pilosa v. glabrata. foliohfl oblongis ovatisve 
4-10-jugis subpinnatifido-serratis incisisve obtusis, inflorescentia spicata (scapo interdum diviso), floribus 
snbdioicis glomeratis, calycis tubo late oblongo villoso compreaeo spuria breribus apicc glochidiatis simpli- 
cibusve armato, petalis 4 inter se plus minusve eoluerentibiis, staminibus sub-i», floribus hemim 
U. S. Bxpl, Krp. i. 108. A.ecliinata, LeAm. m Plant. Preiee. i. 95. A. Behn.u,. . 
660. {Gunn, 87.) 
Hab. Pastures, especially in the northern parts of the Colon\, / 
A larger, taller plant than . ■/. Sanguhorbtv ; like it. extivmeb variable in stature, -ilkine- •. and form of th< 
leaflets, readily distinguished by the tall scapes and spiked lnfl< usrj dioeckms, the females 
imperfect aelieuia. and six stamens, collected into small elu-tcrs. Ca/>/x-\uhv slighth compressed, silky or villous, 
armed with short, unci j ual, rigid spines, that are either -imple or barbed at the apex, h'tah green or purple, 
pubescent at the back, more or less cohering at the base. Carpels two, one in the female flowers with a simple. 
and the other with a dilated, stigma; only one ripens.— Except in having only six stamens thread of ten', am, 
four (not five) petals, this agrees so well with >ehlechtendal'< description of ./. B<-hr\ana, that 1 should doubt the 
latter proving distinct, Mr. Gunn describes the hooked cah.vs <>f this sp.-cies as being extremely troublesome. 
, specialh from their adhering to linen exposed to dry on the grass. 
Nat. Ord. XXVIII. ONAGRARLE. 
This Natural Order, the species of which abound in America, is comparatneK poorh i 
Australia, except the Haloragea be included in it, with which this Order is linked bj 
Of the Australian genera, JEpilobium is the largest, though the species are much less nun, 
New Zealand. Several species of Juesieua are found in the warmer parts of the continent, some even 
advancing as far south as Victoria; these are for the most pari common tropical Asiatic and American 
weeds. The occurrence of a species of the otherwise wholly American genus (Enotkera on the mountains 
of Tasmania, is a most curious fact in geographical distribution. 
Gen. I. EHLOBIUM, L. 
Calyck tubus elongatus, 4-gonus, ovario adnatus; limbus 4-sepalus, deciduus. Petala 4. Stamina 8. 
