Cary ophy Hew.] 
THE COLONY OF VICTORIA. 
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bursting introrse longitudinally. Styles 2, free, line long', longitudinally stigmatose, very narrow. 
Ovary on a very short stipes, emarginate at the summit. Capsule four-valved, sometimes a little shorter 
than the calyx, sometimes short exserted; its valves finally seceding' to near the base. Funicles of the 
columella exceedingly short. Seeds from rufous turning black-brown, roundisli-renate, rostellate, J line 
long. Albumen starchy, rather copious, unilateral-central, half surrounded by the semicircular embryo. 
Cotyledons somewhat longer than the radicle. 
Seemingly this species has but slight claims for being held specifically distinct from G. muralis, a 
plant not rare in Middle and South Europe, which differs merely in being smooth, in producing* rather 
broader leaves, somewhat larger petals, less rostellate seeds and a more clathrate testa; none of these 
characters being' of absolute validity. Notwithstanding its wide distribution over Australia, G. tubulosa is 
probably not an indigenous species. 
SPERGULARIA. 
Pers. Synops . Plant . i. 504. 
Sepals 5. Petals undivided, 5, seldom 4 or none. Stamens 10, sometimes less, free. Exterior 
filaments biglandulose at the base. Ovary one-celled. Ovules many, attached to a central columella. 
Styles 3-5, rarely 2. Valves of the capsule as many as styles, when 5 alternate with the sepals. 
Seeds numerous, wingless or winged. Embryo imperfectly annular. 
Annual, biennial or perennial herbs, dispersed over many parts of the globe. Leaves free, 
opposite or pseudo-verticillate, narrow, usually carnulent. Stipules scarious, persistent, solitary 
between the leaves, connate at the base. Pedicels axillary or in racemose cymes. Petals pink, some¬ 
times white.— Endl, Gen. Plant. 962; Lepigonum, Fines, Addend. Flor. Holland. 159; Koch, Synops. 
Flor. Germ. & Helvet. i. 120; Kindi. Synops. Lepigon. 1-12; Stipularia, Haw. Synops. Plant. 
Succul. 104. 
This genus differs from Alsine, as defined by Professor Fenzl, chiefly in stipulate leaves, a 
character it has in common with but few other genera of Caryophyllese. Of these Spergula stands 
nearest to Spergularia, being however mainly recognized by the position of its five valves opposite to 
the sepals. 
Spergularia rubra, Cambess . in St. Hil. Flor. Brasil. Merul. ii. 179; J . Hook. FI. Tasm. i. 41; 
S. salina, Presl. Cecil. 93; S. marginata, Kitt. Flor. Deutschl. ii. 1004; S. rupestris, Carnb. 1. c.; Fenzl , in 
Plant. Hueg. 9; Schlechtend. Linncea, xx. 632; Arenaria rubra, Finn. Sp. Plant . 606; A. media, L. 1. c.; 
A. campestris, Allioni , Flor. Pedemont.; A. salina, Scringe, in Cand. Prodr . i. 401; A. marina, Both. FI. 
Germ. i. 189; Engl. Hot. t. 938; A. Canadensis, Pers. Syn. i. 504; A. marginata, Cand. Flor. Franc, iv. 
793; Stipularia rubra, Flaw. Syn. 104; Alsine marina, Wahlenb. FI, Suec. 281; Lepigonum rubram, Wahlenb. 
Flor. Gathob. p. 45; L. medium, JVahlenb. 1. c. y L. marinum, Wahlenb. 1. c.; L. marginatum, Koch, Syn. 
FI. Germ, S> Heir. ed. 2, vol. i. 121; L. brevifolium, Bartl. in Lehm. PI. Pi'eiss. i. 243; L. anceps, Bartl. 
I, c.; L. laxiflorum, Bartl. 1. c. 244; Spergula purpurea, Baj. Syn. 351; S. rubra, Tovr. tf Gray , FI. of North 
Amer. i. 175. 
Leaves linear-filiform; stipules entire, seldom bifid; pedicels rather stout, as well as the sepals usually 
glandulous-downy; Hoovers generally large; herbaceous dorsal part of the outer sepals broader than the 
membranous margin; styles and valves of the capsule 3; seeds winged or wingless. 
On coast meadows and in subsaline tracts of the interior, or on clayey or sandy plains not unffequent in 
this colony, ascending occasionally mountainous tracts, thus found 1000 feet high on Ben Lomond. Widely 
dispersed over the subtropical, temperate and subarctic zones of the globe. 
