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entire, or, occasionally, with a *fevv remote teeth. iSome forms 

 of this species, when the basal leaves have fallen, simulate L. 

 Desvauxii Thell.. but the Hat, trianguhir, marginal hairs of the 

 latter provide a useful distinction. It is recorded by Thellung 

 (p.305) from New South Wales, Victoria, and S. Australia. In 

 the National Herbarium, it is represented from New South 

 Wales only, its distribution ranging from the coast to the 

 interior, but chiefly in the southern parts of the State; and 

 includes a specimen collected by Banks and Solander, New Hol- 

 land, 1770, named, as above, by the British Museum authorities. 

 A bundle of dry stems of this species was forwarded to the 

 National Herbarium, by Messrs. Dalgety Sl Co., from the manager 

 of a Station at Brewarrina, with the following information : — 

 " The only feed here at present, eaten greedily, when dry, by 

 sheep and cattle; yields good milk." 



L. FASCICULATUM Thell. 



Seedling-leaves pinnate, tinely dissected, the basal leaves 

 similar, present only on young plants. 



This species, which is readily distinguished by its corymbose 

 inflorescence, is quoted by Thellung (p. 306) from one locality 

 only, viz., Victoria: Swan Hill, leg. ?, distrib. V. v. Mueller (pro 

 L. ruder ale) ~ herb., Petersbg. 



Our herbarium-material shows that it is widely distributed 

 in New South Wales, particularly in the interior; and we have 

 several specimens from Queensland, including an example from 

 W^arwick, December, 1912; collected and named as above by the 

 Acting Govt. Botanist of that State, Mr. C. T. White. It is 

 also recorded for S. Australia by Mr. J. M. Black, in a recent 

 publication, •' Additions to the Flora of S. Australia, No. 9." 

 Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., xl., p. 62, 1916. 



\j. PSEUUO-RUDERALE 'I'heli. 



The radical leaves of this species are pinnately lobed, as in L, 

 ruderale Linn., but the cauline leaves retain their dissection — 

 which is gradually decreased upwards — longer than those of the 

 typical L. ruderale Linn. The siliqua of L. pseadu-ruderale is 



