64 THE TASMANIAN FLORA. 



Common on the North Coast, Goshen, George's Bay, Port Arthur, Longley, 

 Mainland near Schonten I., &c.. Islands of Bass Straits ; also throughout 

 Eastern Australia. Fl. Nov.-Feb. 



2. X. pusiLLA, Bunqe. A small erect or diffuse plant, of 2-4 inches, slightly 

 covered with spreading white hairs. Leaves of 3 entire oblong-lanceolate 

 segments, the lateral segments sometimes 2-lobed. Flowers 1-3 together, in 

 small, usually sessile, umbels opposite the leaves, with usually 5 narrow lanceolate 

 bracts surrounding the flowers. Calyx-lobes broadly lanceolate, acute, nearly as 

 long as the ovary. Petals small and narrow. Fruit about \\ line diameter, 

 smooth, ribs plain, but not prominent. 



North Coast, Remine. Throughout Southern Australia. Fl. Jan. 



8. X. BISSECTA, Hook. Prostrate, spreading, and much-branched, forming 

 tufts of 6 inches to 1 foot in diameter, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves on long 

 stalks, divided into 3 segments, the segments again divided or toothed. Flowers 

 usually 2 or 3 together, in small umbels irregularly arising from a common stalk 

 that is inserted opposite a leaf, each head of flowers surrounded by a few narrow 

 linear bracts. Calyx-lobes broadly lanceolate, acute. Petals small and narrow. 

 Fruit about 1 line diameter, with four very distinct ribs on each side. 



S'orth Coast, Mount Bischoff, Mount Dundas, Longley, &o. Throughout 

 South-Eastem Australia. Fl. Dec. 



4. AZORELLA. 



Calyx-lobes prominent, sometimes petal-like, and deciduous. Petals obtuse or 

 acute. Fruit slightly compressed laterally, each carpel 5-ribbed, the lateral riba 

 free from the commissure. 



A genus spreading from Australia to South America, New Zealand, and South 

 Pacific. 



Stems slender, bearing 1, 2, or 3 flowers, on long 



stalks ... ... ... ... ... ... ... \. A. saxifraga. 



Stems bearing an irregular umbel of 6-12 flowers ... 2. A. dichopetala. 



1. A. SAXIFEAGA, Benth. Small, tufted, and hairless. Leaves all radical, stalked, 

 spreading; the laminse cordate, deeply 6-9-lobed, | inch long or less. Flower- 

 stalk erect, often 4 inches long, usually bearing 3 flowers on long stalks at the 

 end, or 2 at the end and 1 lower down, each with a narrow bract at its base. 

 Calyx-lobes triangular, acute, minute. Petals 1 line long, broad, white. Fruit 

 about 2 lines long and 1 broad, scarcely compressed. Microsciadium saxifraga, H. 



Loddon Plains, Macquarie Harbour, Remine. In wet heaths. Fl. Dec-Jan. 



2. A. DICHOPETALA, Benth. A densely- tufted, somewhat hispid perennial. 

 Leaves all radical, on long stalks, the laminae orbicular to reniform, with 5 or 7 

 short, broad, crenate lobes. Flower-stalk erect, bearing an irregular umbel of 

 6-12 flowers, and often a small supplementary umbel arising in the place of one 

 of the flowers; the inflorescence surrounded by an involucre of unequal bracts 

 that are often united at the base. Calyx-lobes petal-like, as large as the petals, 

 and falling off with them. Petals 1 line long, acute. Dichopetalum ranuncu- 

 lacevm, Hook. 



Great Lake, Mount Sorell, Mount La Perouse, Eldon Range. It occurs also in 

 Victoria. Fl. Dec. -Jan. 



6. DIPLASPIS. 

 Calyx-teeth inconspicuous. Petals ovate. Fruit compressed, so that the 

 broad axes of the carpels are parallel. Carpels accordingly much flattened from 

 the front to the back, the outer face flat with the dorsal rib in the centre the 



