292 FLORA OP TASMANIA. [Scrqphidarinea. 
Gen. V. GLOSSOSTIGMA, Am. 
Calyx campanulatus, obtuse 3-4-lobus. Corolla minima ; labio superiore bilobo, inferiore paulo ma- 
jore, 3-lobo. Stamina 2-4; antheris unilocularibus. Stylus apice spathulatus. Capsula subglobosa, 
loculicide 2-valvis ; valvis medio septiferis, columnam placentiferam integram nudantibus.— Herbae perpu- 
sillce, repentes, muscoidece ; foliis oppositis, spathulatis, integerrimis ; pedimculis azillariius, solitariia, 1- 
floris ; floribus minimis, erectis. 
Very minute, tufted, creeping, moss-like herbs, natives of tropical India and Asia, also of Australia, the Cape 
of Good Hope, and New Zealand. G. elatinoides has stems 1-2 inches long, smooth or slightly hairy. Leaves 
opposite, petiolate, spathulate, quite entire, blunt, 2-4 lines long. Peduncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered, erect, 
shorter or longer than the leaves. Mower* very small, erect, \\ line long. Calyx bell-shaped, with five short, 
blunt lobes. Corolla purple, campanulate, two-lipped, rather compressed vertically ; lips spreading ; upper two-, 
lower three-lobed; lobes rounded, blunt. Stamens four. Anthers peltate, exserted; cells didymous, confluent. 
Ovary ovate, with a slender style, and spathulate, flat, fimbriated stigma. (Name from yXwcrva, a tongue, and 
stigma.) 
\ (Benth. in Fl. N. Zeal. i. 188) ; minima, glabra, ad nodos radicans, 
foliis petiolatis spathulatis lineari-spathulatisve obtusis integerrimis, staminibus 4. — G. Drummondii et Tri- 
choloma elatinoides, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 426. (Gun?i, 2005.) 
Hab. Banks of the South Esk, near Launceston, where it is submerged during a part of the year, 
Gunn.— (Fl. all summer.) 
DisxitiB. South-eastern and South-western Australia; New Zealand. 
Gen. VI. LIMOSELLA, L. 
Calyx campanulatus, 5-dentatus. Corolla tubus brevis, subrotato-campanulatus ; limbo subregulari, 
5-fido. Stamina 4, antherarum loculis confluentibus. Stylus brevis; stigmate incrassato, breviter bifido. 
Capsula 2-(raro 3-) valvis ; valvis integris, septo tenuissimo incomplete placentifero libero parallelis.— Herbse 
pusilla, aquatic* v. uliginosa, caspitosce v. replantes, glaberrima ; caulibus prostratis, ad nodos radicantibus ; 
ramis foriferis brevissimis, foliis pedimculisque dense fasciculatis ; foliis petiolatis, alternis (oppositisque ?), 
elongatis, integerrimis; pedunculis unifloris, solitariis, ebracteatis j floribus pusillis. 
A genus of very small, delicate, flaccid plants, growing in marshes, sometimes under water, generally in tem- 
perate climates. The only Tasmanian species is also found in Europe, New Zealand, Australia, the Falkland 
Islands, Kerguelen'8 Land, throughout North and South America, and is a native of England; it is thus charac- 
terized :— Everywhere quite smooth. Stems none or creeping, throwing out white fibrous roots and fascicles of 
leaves. Leaves ±-l± inch long, linear or subulate, blunt or dilated above the middle. Peduncles solitary, or several 
from the roots, short. Flowers very minute, white. Calyx bell-shaped, five-toothed. Corolla obscurely two-lipped, 
between rotate and bell-shaped; limb five-toothed or -lobed. Stamens four; anther-cells confluent. Style short; 
stigma thickened. Capsule rounded, often on a curved pedicel, two-valved, partially two-celled; valves entire, 
parallel to the dissepiment. (Name from limus, a marsh ; in allusion to the place of growth.) 
1. Limosella aquatica (Linn. Sp. PL 881), var. tenuifolia ; foliis linearibus lineari-subulatisve 
obtusis dilatatisve, corolla lobis ovali-oblongis tubo calycis multoties longioribus.— J7. Ant. ii. 334; Fl. 
K Zeal. i. 190. L. tenuifolia, Nutt. Gen. PI. N. Am. ii. 43 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 427. L. Australia, 
Br. Prodr* 443. {Gwm, 1996.) 
Hab. Probably common in marshy situations, though frequently overlooked ; Penquite and Formosa, 
Gv.nn.~m. Nov.) (v. v.) 
