THE TASMANIAN FLOEA. 6 



5. R. LAPPACETJS, Sm. Tufted, silky, very variable. Leaf stalk long, lamina 

 lobed, or divided into 3-5 toothed lobes or segments. Peduncle usually long, 

 leafy, and few or one flowered. Sepals erect or spreading. Petals bright yellow, 

 obovate, about | inch. long. Acbene with coiled style when in flower, and 

 becoming somewhat rhomboid and compressed when in fruit. 



Abundant ; also throughout Australia and New Zealand. Fl. spring and 

 summer. 



Var. scapifferus. Small, tufted, very hairy. Leaves usually divided into 

 3-5 pairs of more or less deeply segmented lobes. Peduncles erect or 

 curved, bare or leafy. Flower single, yellow, sometimes j inch across, 

 at others minute. Approaching R. hirtus. Banks et Sol. ; M. scapi- 

 gerus, H. ; R. pimpinellifolius, EL Sub-alpine. 



Var. suhsericeus. Tufted. Leaves on long stalks ; laminee broad, thin, 

 entire 3-5 dentate or lobed. Flowers usually small, but variable, and 

 on short, simple, or longer leafy stalks. R. cuneatus, H. Sub-alpine. 



6. R. HIRTUS, Banks et Sol. Tufted. Leaves numerous, on long stalks, very 

 hairy, divided into 3-5 toothed lobes. Peduncle long, leafless, 1-flowered. 

 Flower rather small. Sepals reflexed. Petals oblong, j inch long. Achenes as 

 iii R. lappaceus, Sm. Closely allied to and of ten included with R. lappaceus, Sm. 



Very common on hills and sub-alpine situations ; also New Zealand. Fl. 

 Dec-Jan. 



7. R. PAEviFLOETJS, 2/iww. Small, tufted, procumbent. Leaves orbicular, lobed, 

 or segmented. Flowers minute, on short lateral stalks, or nearly sessile. Sepals 

 1-2 lines long. Petals same length, narrow. Achenes about ^ line long, with 

 rough spines on the surface. R. sessiliflorvs, R. Br. ; R. pumilio, R. Br. 



Very common. Throughout Australia and New Zealand. Slightly differing 

 from the common form of the Northern Hemisphere. Fl. spring and summer. 



R. MURICATUS, Linn. Spreading. Leaves broad. Achenes large, spiney. 

 South Europe. 



R. EEPENS, Linn. Spreading. Leaves dark green, often with a dark 

 centre. Achenes smooth. Europe. 



R. PHiLONOTis, Ehr. Erect, bi-anched, slender. Torus globose. Achenes 

 with one row of minute tubercles. Europe. 



R. SCELEEATUS, Linn. Erect, branched. Torus oblong. Achenes minute. 



namerous. Europe. 



4. CALTHA. 



Petals none. Sepals petaloid, 3-8. Carpels few, containing more than one ovule. 



C. NOViE-ZELANDiiE, Hook. Small tufted perennial. Leaves radical, spreading, 

 stalk short ; lamina 1-2 inches long,, broadly and bluntly oblong, the lower 

 margin with a pair of upturned appressed lobes. Flower solitary, stalk usually 

 nearly obsolete, sometimes lengthening. Sepals pale straw-coloure'd, narrow, 

 oblong, \-\ inch long. Carpels about 5-8. C. introtoba, F. v. M. 



Western mountains. Ironstone Mt., Cuming's Head, Mt. Humboldt, and La 

 Perouse. Fl. Dec. 



Oedee II. DILLENIACE^. 



Pistil of few or many free or slightly cohering carpels, usually 2 or more 

 seeded. Stamens few, free hypogynous. Perianth divisions, 5. 



