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for any other State, although it is the most common species. — 

 (2) <K. hnujijiora Jacq. This species has been recorded from 

 South Austraha, by Mr. Black {I.e.), and fi'om Queensland by 

 the late Mr. F. M. Bailey (Weeds and Suspected Poisonous 

 Plants Plants of Queensland, p. 56, 1906). It is fairly plentiful 

 at Tweed Heads and Woy Woy. There are also specimens in 

 the National Herbarium labelled (IJ. biennis, which belong to 

 this species, from Conjola, Bingarra, Bega, Cobargo, and Norfolk 

 Island. — (3) (IJ. Lamarkiana Ser. in DC, regarded by some botan- 

 ists as a variety of (H. biennis Linn. It is figured in Eng. Bot., 

 tab. 1534. The specimens exhibited were grown at Ashfield in 

 December, 1915, from seed obtained from specimens collected 

 at Inverell by Mr. F. Lewin in March, 1912. The only other 

 specimens of this species seen are from plants cultivated in the 

 Botanic Gardens. — Mr. Cheel showed also specimens of (a) Rosa 

 Ueviyata Michx., {R. sinica Ait.) collected at Murwillumbah, 

 probably an escape from cultivation. — {}>) The "Frankfurt Rose" 

 {R. turhinata Ait.), from Cook's River (A. A. Hamilton; Decem- 

 ber, 1912), and Armidale (J. H. Maiden: May, 1916), two addi- 

 tional localities to that recorded for this species in these Pro- 

 ceedings for 1912, p. 137. —(f) Emilia sonchi/olia DC, [Com- 

 posite] a native of Asia and Tropical Africa now naturalised in 

 the neighbourhood of Tweed Heads. 



Mr. E. I. Bickford, F.L.S., communicated a Note on the 

 economic resources of West Australia. 



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