34 Australian Plants. 
Art. LV. Definitions ofrare or hitherto undescribed Australian 
Plants, chiefly collected within the Boundaries of the Colony 
of Victoria, and examined by Dr. FERD. MUELLER. 
(Continued. ) 
CRUCIFERZ. 
1. Cardamine laciniata. 
Perennial, erect, glabrous; leaves nearly all radical, on 
long petioles, lanceolate, remotely toothed or laciniate or 
sometimes pinnati-partite; flowers in the raceme remote; 
petals oblong-cuneate,' hardly twice as long as the sepals; 
siliques as well as their pedicels spreading; style short; seeds 
brown, slightly wrinkled. 
On moist grassy as well as on boggy places, along rivers 
and creeks; it often indicates a saline soil. 
2. Sisymbrium cardaminoides. 
(Sect. Arabidopsis.) 
Annual, diffuse, somewhat hairy; leaves lanceolate, 
entire or on both sides with one or two teeth; pedicels 
expanded, hardly half as long as the silique; nerve of the 
valves thin; petals white; filaments linear-subulate; style 
short; stigma indistinctly bilobed. 
On sandridges near the entrance of the Murray River. 
3. Capsella antipoda. 
(Sect Hutchinsia. ) 
Annual; stems simple or little branched, ascending, foliate ; 
leaves all petiolate, pinnately parted or entire, glabrous ; lateral 
lobes two or three on each side, ovate or oblong, the terminal 
one larger; petals white, ovate; unguiculate; calyx for some 
time persistent, half as long as the corolla; silicles elliptical, 
shorter than the pedicles, 4-12-seeded; stigma subsessile. 
In the Black Forest, and on the summit of Mount Alex- 
ander. Of great affinity with Hutchinsia petrea. 
4, Lepidium ambiguum. 
(Sect. Dileptium.) 
Perennial; stem upright, branched, somewhat scabrous ; 
