156 VEGETATION OF LORD HOWE ISLAND, 



SUMMARY OF RESULTS. 



As already stated, I have taken Hemsley's Flora as a basis, and 

 following is a list of the species enumerated in my list to which I 

 especially invite attention. 



Additions to the Indigenous Flora. 



Cakile maritima, Scop. ; Cupania Howeana, Maiden, n.sp. ; 

 Ulceodendron cnriipendiiJum^^wW., (also in Norfolk Island); Coiula 

 australis, Hook, f.; Sonchus oleraceus, Linn.; PJectrantlius parvi- 

 JloTMS, Willd.; Sal icornia australis, Sol.; Riimex Brownii, Campd.; 

 Paspaliim distichuin, Linn., (the inflorescence sometimes with 

 three, and occasionally with four spikes); Imperata arundinaceo, 

 Cyr.; Alsopliila rohusfa, C. Moore, (in lieu of A. australis, R.Br., 

 var. .'' nigrescens, Benth.); Trichomanes javanicuin, Blume (col- 

 lected by Etheridge and Whitelegge) ; Aspleniiim Robinsonii, 

 F.v M., (reported by King, but specimens not seen by me; also 

 in Norfolk Island); Asjjle/iium ohtusatum, Forst., var. lucidum, 

 Benth. ; Aspidium aculeatnm, Sw., var. Moorei, Christ, (has 

 perhaps, in some instances, been mistaken for a dwarf form of 

 A. capense, Willd.); and genera 1 (Blue Plum, and Black Plum). 



Introduced Plants (additions). 



Hemsley's list contains : — Oxalis cornicitlata, Linn. ; Bidens 

 pilosa, Linn.; Panicum sanguinale, Linn. 



To which I have added : — Senebiera dldyina, Pers. ; Cerastium, 

 vidgatum, Linn. ; Polycarpou tetraphyllum, Loefl. ; Portulaca 

 oleracea, Linn.; Medicago denticulata, Willd.; Vicia, saiiva, Linn.; 

 Cassia laivigata, Willd. ; Erigeron linifoUus, DC. ; Taraxactcm 

 Dens-leonis, Deaf.; Solanum nigrum, Linn.; Physalis peruviana 

 Linn.; Verbena boanrieiisis, Linn.; Chenopodiani miirale,JAnu. ■ 

 Ricinus communis, Willd.; Ceratochloa uniuloides, DC; Stenota- 

 phrum americanum., Schrank; Avena sp. 



