Haloragea.'] flora of TASMANIA. L28 
foliage. Leave* linear or subspathulate, }-+ inch long, flowen in mod respect* quite like thoee oi I 
but pedieelled, and with ripe carpels wrinkled when dry. — Pi..v it. Will. />'. Pig, 1. branch « 
flowers; 2, male flower; 3, same with petals and stamens remored; i, petal; S, stamen; $, female lower: 
7, the same more advanced ; 8, carpel; 9, more advanced ditto; In, the same nil vertically; 11. seed: 12. ver- 
tical section of ditto; 13, transverse section of stem:— all magnified. 
c. Leaves alternate. Stamens 2-4.— (Pelonastes, ///. in Loud. Journ. lint. vi. 174.) 
5. Myriophyllum integrifolium (Hi.) ; minimum, prostratum, vage ramosum, foliia altmiis su- 
bulatis, fl. cJ solitariis terminalibus, petalis persistentibus, staminibus 2-1, fl. ? axillaribu* 
Pelonastes integrifoHa, H.f. m Loud. Journ. Bot. 1. c. P. tillteacca, F. Mueller. (Tab. Will. 
2011, 2013.) 
Hab. Wet places in pastures, lagoons, etc., Gunn.— (Fl. Nov.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia (Emu Flats, Mueller). 
A very minute, prostrate plant, \-l inch long, with spreading branehlets and patent subulate |, 
long, of a pale green or red-brown colour. — Male jlowers solitary, terminal, sessile or shorth pedieelled, apparently 
(ion. III. MEIOXKCTKS, />V. 
Flores hermaphroditi. Calych talus compressus, limbi lobis 2. Petala 2. 
2-loculare ; stigmata 2, apicc papillosa. Fructus nucumentaceus, 2-locularis ; Ml 
'//// f\]iii,]iii'iis, ,i\i albuminis carnosi et oleosi. — Herbae aquat'icm ; foliis aUerni 
. jjarvis. 
A remarkable genus, first indicated by Mr. Ib-own in the 'Appendix to Fbnders' V 
much larger species than the Tasmauian one on the south coast of Australia. Only two : 
both are herbaceous water-plant-, with tlcxuous. branching stem-, alternate, pinnatitid le; 
phrodite flowers.— Calyx-tube ovate, compressed, limb two-lobed. Petal* two, membraa 
four. Styles conical, with papillose tips. Fnnt a much-eomp 
calyx-lobes. Seed linear-oblong, pendulous, with the raphe towards the axis, and a basal 
nous. Albumen fleshy. Embryo cylindrical, axile. half the length of the seed. (Name I" 
to here; in allusion to the reduced number of part- of the flower.) 
(Hook. fil. in b\ Plant I oat, form j ; .t< 
oblongis profunde pinuatifidis sub-bipinnatifidisve, segmentis remotis anguste lincaribus divaricatis simpli- 
cibus bi-trifidisve. {Gunn, 883.) 
Hab. Pools of fresh water at Circular Head and other places in the northern parts of the Colony, 
Gunn.—(Y\. Feb.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. 
Stems flaccid, slender, a few inches to a span long. Leave* deeply pinnatifidly cut into long, narrow, spread- 
ing, simple, bifid or trifid lobes. Flowers very small, pedieelled. 
