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NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY. 



No. 1. 



By J. H. Maiden and E. Betche. 



(«). Notes on rare Port Jackson Plants. 

 UMBELLIFER^. 



SiEBERA Stephensonii, Bentli. 



Traclij/mene Sfej)henson/i, Turcz. Collected in January, 1895, 

 by Mr. W. W. Froggatt near Botany, and in January, 1897, by 

 Mr. W, Forsyth (Overseer of the Centennial Park, and now a 

 member of this Society), near La Perouse. It was previously 

 specifically recorded only from Manly. (Also "within 125 miles 

 of Sydney" in Bentham's Flora Australiensis). 



COMPOSITE. 



Helichrysum adnatum, Benth. 



Syn. H. retusum, F.v.M. (partim) F. v. Mueller, Census, also 

 Ft'ctgm. viii. 46. Collected in November, 1890, by E. Betche 

 near Oatley, and in November, 1896, by Mr. J. Boorman near 

 Hurstville. It is not recorded as a Port Jackson plant in 

 Bentham's Flora Australiensis, nor in Dr. Woolls' " Plants 

 Indigenous to the neighbourhood of Sydney," though " Port 

 Jackson " (sometimes, however, a designation for a very wide 

 geographical area, as used by the older botanical writers), is given 

 as the habitat in De Candolle's Prodromus, Vol. vi. p. 166. 



LEGUMINOS^. 



Acacia Baueri, Benth. 



Collected near Rose Bayin 1886, has been recently discovered by 

 Mr. W. Forsyth in a second Sydney locality, the Centennial 



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