Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
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deflorat• expansa;, membranes;, tunc oblongas v. ovales, circiter<br />
sesquilineam longae, connectivo ad basim utrinque incrassatam et<br />
hinc turgescentia leniter bilobam affixae, denique decidua;. Fructus<br />
junior curvato- et trigono-ellipsoideus, sursum sensim atteuuatus,<br />
jam ante maturitatem §" longus, stigmate sessili vetusto inrcqua-<br />
liter in lobos 3-4 acutos fisso terminatus, consistentia faboe re-<br />
centis. Semen Junius latere longe adnatum, ápice conico-subulato<br />
incurvato liberum. Embryo junior teretiusculus, subulatus; pars<br />
cotyledonaris sive attenuate, terminans.<br />
Species Australiana me tantum statu deflorato visa a Mediterrá-<br />
nea, quacum Brownius eam dubie junxit, distare apparet foliis<br />
latioribus copiosius nervatis minus evidenter ad apicem rotundatis,<br />
spicis longius pedunculatis saspe plurifloris et praecipue connectivis<br />
longioribus angustioribus exaristulatis. Inveni enim in planta<br />
Austro-Europa;a Tliuretio distributa connectivum vetustum vix<br />
sesquilineam longum, fere orbiculatum, aristula setacea lineam<br />
metiente v. breviore sa;pissime terminatum.<br />
Planta etiam nomen Kerner• genericum accipere potuit, quod<br />
nomen simul cum eo 1805 in Lam. et Cand. Fl. Français, accepto<br />
datum. Conf. Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 947.<br />
E familia Hydrocharidearum. fiuitima nunc inter plantas Aus-<br />
tralianas tuto cognosco Hydrocliaridem Morsura rana?, a Moretón<br />
Bay (W. Hill), a Rockhampton (P. O'Shanesy).•Otteliam alismo-<br />
idem (Pers. Enchir. i. 400) in Arnhemia ad flumen Eoperi detexi<br />
et e rivo Mulholland-Creek (E. Bowman) et a flumine Fitzroy's<br />
River (P. O'Shanesy) obtineo.<br />
FILICES.<br />
Dickson ia antárctica.<br />
Labill. Nov. Holl. PI. Spec. ii. 100, t. 249 ; Hook. Spec. Fil. i. 66 ; J. Hook.<br />
Fl. Nov. Zeal. ii. 9 ; Ralph in Proceed. Linn. Soc. iii. 168 ; Lowe New<br />
and Rare Ferns, t. 43; F. M. Fragm. Phyt. Austr. v. 117; J. Hook.<br />
Handb. New Zeal. Flora i. 351 ; Hook. Synops. Filie, i. 50; Balantium<br />
antarcticum, Presl Tent. Pteridol. 184 ; Cibotium Billardierii, Kaulf.<br />
Emnn. Fil.<br />
Demum pr•alta, caudice valido remanentiis stipitum tantum<br />
summitatem versus tecto, cicatricibus plerisque tegmine fibrarum<br />
radiciformium occultis, frondibus numerosis elongatis bi- v. tripin-<br />
natis chartaceis v. tenui-coriaceis fere glabris subtus virentibus,<br />
stipitibus crescentibus virentibus ad basim stuppaceo-crinitis abhinc<br />
cum racbibus saepe subtus glabris et l•viusculis, pinnis pinnulis-<br />
que acuminatis, segmentis fertilibus oblongo- v. rhombeo-ovatis<br />
oblongisve crenato-lobatis v. fissis apice serratis, soris paucis v.<br />
pluribus, valva frondea et indusio fere hemisph•ricis.<br />
A crateris vulcanalibus monti Gambier vicinis per Australiam<br />
felicem et Neo-Cambriam usque in Novam Angliam subalpinam