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capsula breviuscula ovata pleiosperma semiseptata, seminibus
ovato-orbicularibus apteris.
In Australia occidentali. J. Drummond.
Species praeclaro F. Bonney, assiduo plantarum eremicolarum
collectori et observatori dicata est.
Goodenia leptoclada in montibus Stirling's Range variât foliis
caulinis cordatis et bracteolis calyci adstantibus. G. mieropterae
folia caulina inferiora invenio lanosa, lanceolata, 1-1¿" longa,
pedúnculos inferiores interdum 2" longos, prope medium raro
bracteolis 2 linearibus brevibus instructos, corollam in tus flavam.
G. humilis varietatem pollicarem unifloram in insula Flinders! jam
1843 reperit cl. Dr. Jos. Milligan. G. calcaratam et Velleyam
connatam cl. Dr. Rieb. Sullivan a montibus Gawleri nuper m i ¿it.
AM AR ANT ACE Jï.
Ptilotus alopecuroideus.
Trichinium alopecuroideum, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. i. 13 ; Bot. Reg.
xxv. 28 ; F. If. Rep. on Fl. of Babb. Exped. 19 ; T. Freissii, Nees in
Lehm. Fl. Freiss. i. 629 ; Moq. in Cand. Fr. xiii. div. ii. 295 ; T. candi-
cans, Nees 1, c. Moq. 1. c.
Validus, caulibus erectis simplicibus rarius paucirameis superne
aphyllis striatis, foliis anguste lanceolatis v. superior ibus lineari-
bus indumento crispulo articulato pilosulis margine crenulato-
repandulis, fioribus dense spicatis majusculis, bracteolis orbicu-
laribus muticis bracteam ovato-cymbeam acutam asquantibus
quacum glabris calyce ter brevioribus, sepalis prope apicem nudis,
villorum articulis perbrevibus, nodis eorum denticuiatis, staminibus
inasquilongis, quinto sterili, stylo calycem aequante basim versus
villoso.
In plagis arenosis amplissime per Australiana dispersus ; e. g.
occurrit ad flumen Lachlan's River (Burkitt), in Nova Anglia
(C. St.), ad flumina Darling's et Murray's River (F. M.), ad Cooper's
Creek (Howitt), ad Wanego-River (J. C. Daltou), ad Maranoam
(W. Burton), ad flumina Swan-River et Murchison-River (Drum-
mond, 221), ad flumen Glenelg-River (Martin), ad rivum Sturt's
Creek (F. M.)
Radix fere carnosa, perpendicularis, interdum ulnam longa.
Caules £-4' longi. Spica raro fere pedem longa. Florum longi-
tudo satis variât. Sépala nonnunquam purpurascentia. Stylus
croceus.
Ptilotus nobilis (Trichinium nobile, Lindl. in Mitch.ThreeExped.
ii. 22 ; T. macroeephalura, Moq. in Cand. Prodr. xiii. div. ii. 290
non Nees; T. semilanatum, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 45)
crescit in campis aridis per maximam partem Australia; ; videlicet
ad Encounter Bay (F. M.) ; ad flumina Wimmera, Murray- et
Darling-River et Murrumbidgee (Mitchell, F. M.) prope Bengola et