Stylidiea.] flora of Tasmania. 
1. Stylidium graminifolium (Swart/., Mag. Nit (its. Berl. 17. t. 1. f. 1); foliis OBUP 
libus anguste linearibus, scapo aphyllo glanduloso piloso, racemo mbtpkato nop] 
culato.— Br. Prodr. 568; DC. Prodr. vii. 333; Bot. Beg. i. t 90 j I 
major, ftufti, Jfeo*. 5o<. ii. 13. t. 66. Candollca serrulata, £«6. M ./. .. A iff* ti U4 
{Gunn, 102, 1181, 1980, 2029.) 
Var. a; foliis margine denticulatis. 
Var. /3; foliis margine laevibus.— S. melastachys, Br. Prodr. 5fis. S. Aran 
66. *. 216. 
Hab. Very abundant throughout the Colony, from the level of the sea to 1000 B L- 
Nov.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern and Southern Australia, from Port Stephens to South Australia. 
I am unable to distinguish more than one species amongst the many forms of this common plant which GKmo 
has sent me. In its usual stair it forms a somewhat tufted plant, S— 10 inches high, with fibrous roots, very nume- 
rous, rigid, radical, linear leaves, and a slender scape, bearing a spike of shortly-pedicclled flowers , from the moun- 
tains 1 have specimens not 2 inches high, and it further varies c\treinel\ in the comparative hnglh of the leaves 
and scapes, in I •■ of the leaves, in theii u to i i - 
glandular or pilose calyx and scape, which hears from three ox four to thirty orfort\ 
flowers, and length and breadth of the lobe* of the corolla, and then equality ox toequa 
yellowish?), turning purple in drying, sometimes white. In some of (inn: 
corolla to become regular I have specimens from New Zealand, -aid to have heen 
suspect either some mi-take, or that the plant has heen introduced there. 
2. Stylidium despectum (Br. Prodr. 371) ; parvulum, glaherriniiim, loins paucis s-.piai 
caule superne dichotome ramoso, ramis paucifloris, calycis tubo lineari-elongato, corolla minima 
niis insequalibus fauce nuda, labello inappendiculato basi tubo adnata. — DC. Pr 
turn, Br. et DC. II. cc. {Gunn, 437.) 
Hab. Western Plains, Circular Head, Backhouse ; sandy soil, Georgetown, Gunn. — (PI. i 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia : Victoria, 
A very different-looking plant from S. graminij < I ing a si all almost leafless, glabrous, rat 
herb, 1-3 inches high, with the stem rather stout, simple below, and dichotomously branched above.- 
few, minute, scale-like, linear-ovate. Flowers terminating the branch**, very inconspicuous, shorth 
pedicels bracteate at the base. Calyx-tube about £ inch long, slender, its lobes oblong. Corolla vei 
lobes rather unequal.— 1 cannot distinguish the Tasmaniau specimens from Mueller's Victoria ones of 8 
3. Stylidium perpusillum (Hook. fil. in Lond. Joum. Bot. vi. 266] ; gracflliirmm, 
puberulum, foliis radicalibus lineari- v. obovato-spathulatis, scapis 1-3-lloris, r 
tubo globoso, corollas tubo brevissimo fauce nuda laciniis subdentatis, labello inappendiculat 
1226.) 
Hab. In wet sandy soil at Georgetown, common, Gunn.—(Y\. Oct., Nov.) 
This curious little plant perfectly resembles Bauer's drawing of 5. cakaratum, except in wanting 
the corolla.— Whole plant 1-1* inch high, extremely slender, more or less glandular. Root* of m 
Leaves all radical, 1 line long, spathulate. Scape no thicker than a thread, bearing one to four flowe 
the lateral are on long, ascending, slender pedicels, forming a sort of umbel. Calyx-tube globose, its 1 
blunt. Corolla white, very short, its lobes spreading, unequal. 
Obs. Of Stylidium umbellatmn, Lab. Nov. Holl. h. 66. t. 217, described as a native of Van Diet 
