44 PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO [Crucifer#. 
Filaments subulate-linear. Anthers very minute, yellow. Silicle 1J-2 lines long-, rounded-blunt or even 
truncate or slightly emarginate at the apex, terminated by the minute united subsessile or sliort-stylose 
stigmas, moderately or slightly compressed in most cases contrary to the often fenestrate septum, nevertheless 
occasionally also pressed towards the septum. Valves veined, more or less tumid, whereby the width of the 
dissepiment increases or decreases; thus more frequently silicles occurring in which the valvular diameter of 
the fruit exceeds its septal width, whilst in other and fewer instances these proportions are reversed, a note 
which much infringes the limits between the cruciferous tribes of Latiseptm and Angustiseptee in Candolle’s 
System. Seeds ovate or ellipsoid, lightly compressed, in each cell ’5-14, occasionally very few, irregularly 
biseriate, | line long. Funicles short or very short, capillary. Testa, when wet, eradiating a limpid homo¬ 
genous mucilage. Cotyledons invariably truly incumbent, at least found so in all our specimens examined, 
and as also well shown in Hooker’s leones Plantarum, t, 276, and remarked by Koch and others, ndt accum- 
bent, as stated in Candolle’s System in the generic note on Hutchinsia, and thence in J. Hooker’s Flora 
Tasmanica, p. 22.—Capsella pauciflora (Koch, Synops. FI. Germ. ed. secund. i. 79) seems merely a few- 
flowered variety of this species. 
Flowers produced early in the spring. 
Capsella antipoda. —Hutchinsia Australis, J. Hook. FI. Tasm . i. 23, t. 4. 
Annual, downy or almost glabrous; stems slender, leafy; leaves lanceolate or spathulate or rarely 
linear or hastate, toothed or pinnatifid, or pinnatisected, occasionally entire 5 pedicels capillary, at last 
elongate-racemose and generally considerably longer than the ellipsoid silicle; sepals spreading, half' as long 
as the orbicular or ovate-orbicular long-unguiculate patals; valves turgid, membranous, ahnost nerveless; 
septum broader than the contrary transverse diameter of the fruit , lanceolate-ovate or lanceolate; seeds in 
each cell several, pale-brown, smooth. 
On Mount Macedon, at the summit of Mount Alexander, and also in the Black Forest. Indigenous 
likewise to Tasmania. 
An herb, variable in height from 1-6 inches, of the appearance of Capsella elliptica, sometimes rather 
densely pubescent with spreading branched and simple short downs, sometimes but very scantily downy. 
Root fihform, flexuose, descendent, with more or less thin fibrillse. Stems many from the root. Leaves, 
except the upper cauline ones, long-stalked, mostly from ^-1 inch long; the ovate, lanceolate or linear lobes, 
as well as the teeth, acute. Pedicels capillary, numerous, at first corymbose, 1-2 lines long, soon racemose, 
in age varying in length from 3-10 lines, rather spreading. Sepals ovate or orbicular-ovate, pale-green, 
patent, with pallid margin. Petals white, about 1 line long. Stamens 6 . Filaments linear-subulate, about 
i line long. Anthers yellow, very small, didymous-roundisli. Pollen-g-rains ellipsoid. Stigma nearly sessile. 
Silicle 1|-2J rarely 3 lines long-, considerably compressed towards the septum; therefore the latter placed 
in the broader diameter of the fruit, whilst in many other species the narrower diameter of the fruit is 
occupied by the septum. Valves veined, nerveless or faintly one-nerved towards the base. Replum very 
thin. Septum lanceolate or ovate, nerveless, sometimes perforated with an irregular foramen. Funicles 
capillary, about half as long as the seeds. The latter in each cell numbering 3-7, placed in two irregular 
rows, nearly £ line long, ovate, hardly compressed. Mucilage of wet testa limpid, rather copious and 
slightly radiating. Embryo truly notorrliizal. Edges of cotyledons facing the septum. 
In flower early in the spring. 
Capsella pilosula, F. M. First General Report, p. 9; Microlepidium pilosulum, F. M. in IAnrna, 
1852, 371. 
Annual, downy with short simple and divided hair; stems leafy, much branched; leaves lanceolate, 
obovate or rhomboid, toothed or entire; pedicels stout , half or nearly as long as the cuneate- or ovate - 
ohcordate compressed silicle ; valves rather chartaceous, boat-shaped, one-nerved, dilated at the apex into a 
