304 FLORA or TASMANIA. [Plantaginea. 
pedunculis gracilibus, spicis angustioribus elongatis paucifloris, floribus interdum dissitis, corolla? lobis 
oblongo-lanceolatis.— P. Daltoni, Bene. I. e. P. leptostaehys, Nob. I. c. (Gum, 1228 ?) 
Hab. Abundant in wet and marshy places on the mountains, elev. 3-4000 feet. Var. a. Mount 
Wellington. Var. £. Arthur's Lakes, Gum ; Western Mountains, Archer. "Var. 7. Lake St. Clair, Gum ; 
Western Mountains, Archer. — (PL Dec, Jan.) 
After a very careful re-examination of all Gunn's specimens, upon which I founded the three species here 
brought together, and a comparison of these with others from Gunn and Oldiield, with Gunn's notes, and with a 
very good series of varieties selected by Archer, I have no hesitation in considering them as one. This is in fact 
the common alpine Plantago of Tasmania, and, like all other alpine plants, is an extremely variable one, and the 
fact of Gunn's finding a different variety in every mountain locality, is an evidence of this. Like P. varia it differs 
extremely in the amount of soft hairs at the base of the leaves, these sometimes forming a dense matted mass at 
the collum, surrounding all the petioles, and at others being partially or wholly absent in plants that are in all 
other characters the same. The flowers are always glabrous, but the bracts have long cilia on the margins. The 
shape of the lobes of the corolla, which I once supposed formed good diagnostic marks, I now perceive to vary very 
much indeed. 
§ 2. Flowers capitate, very fete (one to three). 
6. Plantago Brownii (Rapin, Hist. Nat. Plantag. 484) j csespitosa, acaulis, collo crassissimo, foliis 
plurimis confertis stellatim patentibus crassis carnosis lanceolatis spathulatisve inciso-dentatis runcinatisve 
glaberrimis v. pilosis basi nudis, pedunculis plurimis brevibus, spicis capitatis 1-4-floris, sepalis ovatis bre- 
viter acuminatis, corolla? lobis ovalibus, capsula globosa 6-8-sperma. — Bene, in BC. Proclr. xiii. 727. 
P. carnosa, Br. Prodr. 425, non Zand.; Barneoud, Plant. 18; M. Ant. i. 65. t. 43; PI. N. Zeal. i. 207. 
P. triantha, Sprmg. Sgst. i. 439. {Gunn, 1227.) 
Hab. Tasmania, Brown; Coal Cliff at South Cape, Gunn.—-{~E1. Dec.) 
Distrib. New Zealand; Lord Auckland's Island. 
A small, very fleshy species, growing closely appressed to maritime rocks, in the crevices of which it pushes 
its fleshy roots, whilst the numerous fleshy, bright green leaves are spread out like a star.— Moot perennial, very 
thick. Leaves very numerous, densely imbricating, 1-3 inches long, petiolate, lanceolate or elliptical, nearly entire 
or runcinate, toothed. Peduncles stout, shorter or longer than the leaves, with three to five terminal flowers. 
7. Plantago paradoxa (Nob. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 277) ; pumila, foliis lanceolatis sessilibus v. 
breve petiolatis integerrimis v. sinuato-dentatis, pilis paleaceis albidis hispidis v. glabratis, pedunculis bre- 
vissmns paleaceis 1-3-floris, sepalis ovato-rotundatis glabratis, corollse lobis ovatis acutis, capsula? loculis 
4-spermis— Bene, la DC. Prodr. xiii. 728. {Gum, 881.) 
Hab. Black Bluff Mountain and Lake St. Clair, Gunn ; Bocks near Mount Gay, on the Mersey, 
Archer.— (fl Jan.) 
A very curious species, similar in many respects to P. carnosa, but the habit is different, the leaves are more 
entire less fleshy, and generally hispid, and the flowers are very frequently solitary. In some specimens the hairs 
(which are jointed palese) are disposed in bands across the upper surface of the leaf. 
7. Plantago Gunnii (Nob. in Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 446. t. 13) ; pumila, pulvinatim crespitosa, 
eaulibus elongatis divisis gracilibus foliosis, foliis anguste ovato-oblongis subacutis concavis basi in petiolum 
vagmantem angustatis integerrimis marginibus longe ciliatis, pedunculis brevibus 1-floris, bracteis calycem 
subaoquantibus, sepalis ovatis acutis, capsuhe loculis l-spermis.-IW in BC. Prodr. xiii. 729. {Gunn, 
Hab. Loftiest parts of the Western Mountains, forming green cushions, Gunn, Archer.-(¥l Jan.) 
