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genus.— Plate XLI.^. and B. Fig. 1, branch, with leaves and infloKMoenoe; I, flower; B, the same nested boa 
above ; 4, young fruit : — all magnified. 
\ 2. Leaves quatcniute. Fruit hispid. 
3. Galium australe (DC. Prodr. iv. 609) ; hispido-pilosa scaberula v. glabrata, caulihu- elongatis 
vage diffuse ramosis ad angulos scaberulis pilosisve, foliis quaternia angttste rllipuoo-laiuvoLitis a< unnnati> 
lineari-oblongisve superne punctis sparsis aspens sublus glaborriinis, pedmieuiis llorit'cris grarilibus l-.'i- 
floris, fructiferis robustis elongatis, fructibus setis elongatis patentibus oncinatia hispidis.— t i. 
laeve, Mueller. G. densum, Nob. in Loud. Joum. Bot. vi. 461. {Gun.i, 649.) 
Hab. Common in many parts of the Colony, Gunn. — (Fl. Nov., Dec.) 
Distrib. New South Wales, Victoria, and South-west Australia. 
I quite agree with Dr. Mueller in referring my G. detumn to G. australe, which is imperfect!) described in De 
Candolle's « Prodromus.'— A loosely tui'ted or straggling, why. more or less scabrous or hispid plain 
inches to two feet long, branched, rough at the angles. hares quatcrnate, narrow elliplie-lanceolale or lmear- 
oblong, acuminate, rough on the upper surface, glabrous beneath. Peehmdet slender, one- to three-flowered, 
lengthened and robust in fruit. Fruit hispid, with long, spreading, hooked bristles. 
4. Galium squalidum (Hook. fil. in Lond. Joum. Bot. vi. 462) ; totom hispido-pilosum, caulibtts 
ascendentibus e basi ramosis pilis patentibus hispidis, internndus foliis bis u rve longinrihus, foliis quatcrnis 
lanceolatis acutis acuminatisve utrinque v. superne bispadifl marginibus rccurvis, peduiirulis flonfen* folio 
longioribus 1-3-fioris, ovariis breviter hispidis. {Gunn, 51v II ~".U 
Hab. Dry pastures, etc., abundant, Gvun, etc. — (Fl. Oct.) (>: v.) 
Distkib. South-eastern Australia. 
This will probably prove to be a variety of G. ait.strah, from which it differs in its more rigid 
smaller leaves, more uniformly hispid, and shorter, denser seta? on the fruit. In some respects it agiv. s better with 
De Candolle's character of G. australe than the plant I have referred to thai 
5. Galium albesceua (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 462); totum pilis mollibus brevibus 
cano-pubescens, caulibus robustis suberectis parce ramosis, internodiis folio brevioribus jequilongisve, foliis 
quaternis elliptico-ovatis lineari-oblongisve acutis utrinque molliter hispido-pilosis, pedunculis hispidis axil- 
laribus solitariis unifloris, floriferis brevibus fructiferis validis decurvis, fructibus setis uncinatis hispidis. 
{Gunn, 1130.) 
Hab. Rocky places on Mount Wellington, Gunn.— (Y\. April.) 
This appears to be a very distinct species from any of those previously I SB obscure and 
troublesome genera are carefully studied in their native country, it bimp ■ 
to their limits.— Whole plant covered with a rather soft, tiftfid pubeecence, i \t. nding over both 
leaves and the peduncles. Stem rather robust, B-18 menet 
whorls, elliptic-ovate or oblong-acute. tUmen OS 
Nat. Ord. XLII. COMPO-H.1. 
With the exception perhaps of some parts of Africa, no country so large, and pawned of similar 
climates, is so poor in Composite as Australia. Instead of being, as it often is, the largest amongst Phamo- 
gams it possesses fewer species than either Myrtacea or Legumino**, and presents much less of peculiarity 
in both genera and species than those Orders do. The number of species hitherto discovered falls consi- 
derably below 600; and manv of these being represented by single scraps of specimens, or being collected 
