148 NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY, 



Botanists have therefore a choice of designations for the plant, 

 but we are of opinion that the Melbourne Herbarium dwarf forms 

 with shorter rays and narrow flower heads distinctly show a con- 

 nection between H. corymbifloruvi and H. microglossum. 



Gnaphalium japonicdm, Thunb., var. radicans, F.v.M., MS. 



Mt. Kosciusko, tree-line to 7000 ft. (J. H. Maiden and W. 

 Forsyth, January, 1899). 



This alpine variety bears the unpublished manuscript name of 

 F. V. Mueller, given to specimens collected by him nearlj' half a 

 century ago on the Munyong Mountains, Victoria. 



SCR0PHULARINE5;. 

 Glossostigma spathulatum, Arn. — New for N. S. Wales. 



Common on the banks of the Apsley River near Walcha (E. 

 Betche, December, 1898'. Dispersed over tropical Asia and 

 Africa. In Australia previously recorded from Queensland. 



The colour of the flower seems to vary greatly. Bentham 

 describes it in the Flora Australiensis as blue; in the figure of an 

 Indian specimen in Hook., £ot. Misc. ii. suppt. 4, the colour is 

 white and pinkish with a pink style, while our Apsley River 

 specimens are of a pure white. Glossostigma spathulatum grows on 

 the Apsley River in compan}' with the pretty blue G. elatinoides, 

 Benth., and both are remarkable for the sensitiveness of the 

 tongue-shaped style. The upper part of the style is curved o\'er 

 the stamens, and at the lightest touch moves slowly back to the 

 upper lip, uncovering the stamens. Students interested in this 

 pretty contrivance to insure cross-fertilization will find a full 

 account in "Notes on the Fertilization of Glossostigma" by J. F. 

 Cheeseman in Trans. Xeiv Zealand Inst. 1877, p. 353. 



Limosella aquatic a, Linn., var. with terete leaves. 



Banks of the Apsley River, closely associated with Glossostigma 

 sjmthulatum, Arn., (E. Betche, December, 1898). 



Though this almost cosmopolitan plant varies greatly in the 

 breadth of the leaves and the leaves of the common Australian 



