THE TASMANIAN FLOBA. 



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17. A. DEALBATA, Link. Differing but slightly from the above. Leaves more 

 hairy, and the pod flat, \ inch broad, and seldom constricted between the seeds. 

 A. mollusima (partly), von Mueller. 



Fl. Aug.-Sept. 



Order XXVI. ROSACEJE. 



Carpels free in Tasmanian forms, many, few, or solitary, on an enlarged convex 

 or concave torus. Sepals usually 5, inserted on a floral tube. Petals usually 5 

 or none. Stamens from 2 to very numerous, with the petals inserted into the 

 floral tube at the base of the sepals. 



Sub-order PotentillecB. Carpels few or numerous, inserted on a convex or 

 conical torus. 



Styles hooked at the tip, fruit dry ... ... ... ... 1. Oeum. 



Styles straight or nearly so, fruit succulent... ... ... 2. Ruhus. 



Sub-order Poteriece. Carpel solitary at the base of a concave 



or tubular floral tube ... ... ... ... ... 3. Acana. 



I. GEUM. 



Pistil of numerous 1-seeded carpels. Styles long, coiled at the ends. Pruit- 

 carpels dry. Stamens numerous. Petals 5. 

 A common genus of both Hemispheres. 



Leaves divided or deeply-lobed ... ... ... 1. G.urhanum. 



Leaves reniform ... ... ... ... ... ... 2. G. renifolium. 



1. G. URBANUM, Linn. Herbaceous, erect, 1-2 feet. Leaves deeply divided, 

 the upper ones into free segments. Flowers yellow. Petals about | inch long. 



In many places in the North ; also in South Australia, Victoria, and New 

 South Wales, Europe, and throughout Asia. Fl. Nov. -Jan. 



2. G. RENIFOLIUM, F. V. M. Herbaceous. Leaves from a creeping stock, l6ng- 

 stalked, reniform, 1-4 inches wide. Flowers white, 1-lf inch diameter. 



Adamson's Peak, Mount La Perouse. Fl. Dec. 



2. RUBUS. 

 Carpels few or many. Style straight. Fruit-carpels with a succulent meso- 

 carp. Stamens numerous. Petals 5. 



A large genus, of world-wide distribution. 



Small, herbaceous 1. R. gunnianus. 



Tall, spreading, prickly 2. R. parvifoliiis. 



1. R. GUNNIANUS, S. A small, creeping, procumbent perennial, often but few 

 inches long. Leaves on rather long stalks, usually consisting of two smaller 

 segments close beneath a terminal, dentate, rhomboid segment, about 1 inch long. 

 Flowers few, solitary, axillary, about | inch diameter, white or yellowish, 

 mostly if not all functionally unisexual. Carpels few. Fruiting-carpels usually 

 few, scarlet, and each f inch diameter. 



Common on nearly all mountain summits Fl. Nov.-Dec. 



2. R. PARViFOLius, Linn. A prickly shrub, with long weak branches climbing 

 over the undergrowth. Leaves stalked, mostly divided into 2 pairs of toothed 

 segments and a single larger toothed or lobed terminal segment, pale, nearly 

 white beneath. Flowers few, in long-stalked axillary and terminal racemes or 

 panicles, pink, | inch diameter. Fruiting-carpels many, about X liae diameter, 

 crimson. R. maciopodm, Ser. 



Very common ; also South and East Austi'alia, and in Eastern Asia. Fl. 

 Dec-Jan. 



