PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
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[Ramncidacece, 
restricted to Western Australia, where scarcely any Tasmanian plants exist beyond those common to almost 
the whole southern coast. 
Clematis micropliylla, Cand. Syst. Veg. i. 147; Cl. linearifolia, Steud. in Lelm. PI. Preiss. i. 
262; J. Hook . FI. Tasm. i. 3, tab. i. 
A woody dioecious climber; leaves with double- rarely simply- or threefold-ternate divisions; segments 
glabrous, herbaceous, oblong-- or ovate-lanceolate, or oblong-linear, rarely narrow-linear, frequently blunt, 
always entire; peduncles axillary and terminal, with a solitary or several cymose pedicels, which are generally 
about as long as the flowers; sepals four, linear-oblong, rather blunt, slightly downy outside, nearly three 
times as long as the stamens; anthers small , ovale, without appendage ; carpels rhomboid- or lanceolate-ovate, 
acute, with a thickened wrinkled margin; fruit-styles from considerably above the base to nearly the summit 
plumose. 
Not rare in the colony of Victoria, along the coast and on the banks of rivers near the sea; much 
less frequent inland. It extends also to the northern parts of Tasmania, to South Australia, Western Australia, 
and the Moreton Bay district. Sir Th. Mitchell brought it from the Maranoa (Conf. Trop. Austr. p. 368). A 
slender climber, with numerous intricate branches, which are furrowed and smooth in age. Branchlets often 
downy. Petioles from a half to several inches long. Segments of leaves variable in size and shape, from a 
few lines to 1J inch long, from 1 to 10 lines broad, generally stalked, sometimes confluent at the base. 
Bracts usually small, oblong or linear, at the base of the pedicels. Sepals g to 1 inch long, 1-2 lines broad, 
cream-colored. Carpels 1J-2 lines long, brown, attenuated at the base and apex. Fruit-style 1-1 J inch 
long, as far as three lines above the base merely short-downy. 
In saline localities the leaves become occasionally fleshy, like those of almost all other plants growing 
on such places. A curious variety, with very narrow and smaller leaflets, may be distinguished as leptophylla 
or stenophylla. It trails over granite rocks on the Snowy River and Mitta Mitta. This species bears flowers 
early in the spring. 
Tkibe II. ANEMONES, Cand. Syst i. 168. 
Sepals often petaloicl, with imbricate aestivation. Petals none or flat. Carpels 
indehiscent, with a solitary pendulous seed. 
MYOSURUS. 
Pillen. Nov. Gen.p . 106, t. 4.—Mouse-tail. 
Sepals generally 5, extended below their point of insertion. Petals absent, or about 5, very 
minute, with a tubular elongated claw, and with an almost cylindrical nectar-groove. Stamens 5-20. 
Carpels arranged in a dense spike along a subulate elongated receptacle. 
Small glabrous annual herbs, occurring in Europe, Asia, America, Australia, and New Zealand. 
Leaves all radical,, linear or very narrow-spathulate, entire. Peduncles thread-like or setaceous, with 
a single small upright flower. 
Myosurus minimus, Linne, Sp. PI, 407; Lam. Encycl. t. 221; M. Australis, F. M. in Trans. 
Phil. Soc. Victor, i. 6. 
Sepals long-spurred; petals lanceolate or spatliulate; style three times shorter them the carpel, or 
obliterated; fruit-spike long-cylindrical; carpels very numerous, closely imbricated. 
On moist places, near permanent waters, or on the open plains where rain-water lodges from time to 
tame; m the vicinity of the rivers Hopkins, Emu Creek, Avoca, Western Avon, Richardson, Murray, Darling, 
and Murrumbidgee, sometimes gregarious. 
