12 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



The plant is of bitter taste and produces sometimes thread- 

 like offshoots ; the stigma-cover is comparatively broad and 

 slightly contracted in the middle, so as to indicate some 

 approach to that of Calogyne, which genus indeed might be 

 considered a section of Goodenia. The appendages on the 

 upper corolla-lobes for the protection of the stigma-cover are 

 present. G. pusilliflora is generally not so large as G. pinna- 

 tifida, of more depressed and probably always annual 

 growth, its vestiture is less dense and more spreading, the 

 floral leaves are proportionately broader, the flower-stalklets 

 more dispersed, the flowers always very much smaller, but the 

 calyx-lobes broader ; the corolla is never so brightly yellow, 

 the membranous expansions are on both sides of all corolla- 

 lobes developed ; the dissepiment is not reaching far up into 

 the cavity of the fruit ; the seeds are fewer in number and 

 not of much less length and breadth than the pericarp, 

 Individual plants of G. pinnatifida, which might show a close 

 approach to G. pusilliflora, may have possibly arisen through 

 hybridism, both growing occasionally intermixedly. 



From G. coronopifolia the species now described is separated 

 by its laxer habit, more developed vestiture, broader leaves 

 with less distant and not so narrow lobes, the floral leaves 

 particularly being never so elongated-linear, by which means the 

 aspect of the whole becomes very diff"erent, but the flowers and 

 fruits of both species are very similar, though the stigma-cover 

 of G. coronopifolia is not at all bilobed ; the seeds of the latter 

 plant are not yet available for comparison in our collections 

 here. The relationship of G. O'Donnelli, which species has 

 recently been brought by Mr. Nynlasy also from the sources of 

 the Victoria-River, is more distant. 



The writer of these remarks avails himself of this opportunity 

 to draw attention to another Victorian Goodenia, but concerning 

 which further field-observations should be instituted. It is 

 treated by Bentharn in the Flora Australiensis as a variety of 

 G. glauca, of which indeed it may only be a form ; it differs 

 however from the typical state of that species in more developed 

 vestiture, in dark-green and also partly indented leaves, more 

 crowded near the root, the uppergenerallyquitenarrow, in usually 

 smaller flowers, in bright yellow dilatations of the corolla-lobes, 

 in almost glabrous style, in more compressed fruit with thinner 

 pericarp and in the nucleus of the seeds being not so perceptibly 

 pointed at the base; — from G. pinnatifida it diverges in often 

 lobeless basal leaves, in the frequent presence of one or two 

 stem-leaves below the flowers, in the corolla never glabrous out- 

 side nor its upper lobes unequally dilated, in nearly or quite 

 glabrous style and in not black colour of the seeds ; — from G. 

 elongata it is separated by less scattered leaves, outside densely 

 invested corolla, nearly glabrous stigma-cover, never reversed 



