62 
AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 
BOTANICAL NAME. 
COMMON NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 
Asplenium falcatum 
Lamarck 
“Sickle-shaped-leaved Spleen wort” (perennial) — 
N.S.W., Q’land, N.Z., etc. 
,, flabellifolium 
Cavanillcs 
“Fan-leaved Spleen wort,” or “Shelf Fern” (perennial) 
—-Vic., N.S.W., Q’land, S. and W. Aust., Tas., 
and N.Z. 
„ flaccidum 
Forster 
“Limp Spleenwort,” or “New Zealand Hanging 
Spleenwort” (perennial)—Vic., N.S.W., Tas., 
N.Z., etc. 
,, furcatum 
Thunberg 
“Forked Spleenwort” (perennial)—Vic., N.S.W., S. 
and W. Aust., Africa, etc. 
,, Hookerianum 
Colenso 
“Hooker’s Spleenwort” (perennial)—Vic. N.S.W., and 
N.Z. 
,, laserpitii- 
folium 
Lamarck 
,, Nidus 
Linnaeus 
“Cave Spleenwort” (perennial)—Q’land, Polynesian 
Islands, etc. 
“Bird’s-nest Fern” (perennial)—Vic., N.S.W., Q’land, 
Norfolk Island, etc. 
,, obtusatum 
Forster 
“Shining Spleenwort,” or “New Zealand Shore Spleen¬ 
wort” (perennial)—N.S.W., Tas., N.Z., etc. 
,, pale ace u in 
R. Brown 
“Scaly Spleenwort” (perennial)—Q’land. 
,, polypodioides 
Mettenius 
“Polypodv-like Spleenwort” (perennial)—Q’land, Cey¬ 
lon, Himalayas, etc. 
,, Trichomanes 
Linnaeus 
“Common Spleenwort,” or “Maidenhair Spleenwort” 
(perennial)—Vic., N.S.W., Q’land, Tas, N.Z., 
Europe, etc. 
,, unibrosum 
J. Smith 
“Shady Spleenwort,” or “Caraway-seed Fern” (peren¬ 
nial)—Vic., N.S.W., Q’land, Tas., N.Z., etc. 
Astartea ambigua 
F. v. Mueller 
“Doubtful Astartea” (evergreen shrub, 3 to 4 ft.), L 
white—F. Myrlaceae —W. Aust. 
,, fascicularis 
De Candolle 
“Bundle-leaved Astartea” (evergreen shrub, 8 to 10 
ft.), f. white—W. Aust. 
Astelia alpina 
R. Brown 
“Alpine Astelia” (herbaceous perennial)—F. Liliaceae 
—Vic., N.S.W., and Tas. 
Asterolasia 
correifolia 
Bentham 
“Correa-leaved Star Rue” (evergreen shrub, 3 to 5 
ft.), f. pale yellow—F. Rutaccae —Vic. and N.S.W. 
,, Muelleri 
Bentham 
“Golden Star Rue” (evergreen shrub, 4 to 6 ft.), L 
yellow—Vic. 
,, pleurand- 
roides 
F. v. Mueller 
,, trymalioides 
F. v. Mueller 
“Pleurandra-like Star Rue” (evergreen shrub, 3 ft.), 
f. yellow—Vic. 
“Trymalium-like Star Rue” (evergreen shrub), f. yel¬ 
low—Vic. and N.S.W. 
Astrebla pectinata 
F. v. Mueller 
“Comb-toothed Astrebla” (perennial)—F. Gramineae 
—N.S.W., Q’land, N., S., and W. Aust. 
,, triticoides 
F. v. Mueller 
“Mitchell Grass” (perennial)—N.S.W., Q’land, N. and 
S. Aust. 
