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panicle, generally well above the leaves, the panicle-branches 

 with few shorter floral-leaves passing into the distant small 

 bracts on the peduncles. Involucre hemispherical, the bracts 

 numerous, acute, the inner ones fully 3 lines long, the somewhat 

 shorter outer ones passing into the bracts on the peduncles. Ray- 

 florets white faintly tinged with violet, about 30 in number or 

 rather less, disk-florets longer than the involucre, abruptly 

 narrowed at about the middle. Style-appendages narrow. 

 Achenes densely silky hairy, the pappus-bristles of nearly equal 

 length. 



This interesting new species belongs to the Section Merismo- 

 tricha of Archer's classification of the genus, and stands next to 

 0. adenophora F.v.M., from which it is easily distinguished by 

 the longer leaves, the herbaceous habit, and the absence of all 

 viscidity. The collector asserts that it is an annual; and, if this 

 be correct, it forms a rare exception to the usual habit of Austra- 

 lian species of the genus. It was found in masses in a clearing 

 in virgin forest, at a considerable distance from all settlements^ 

 so that the supposition that it is a naturalised plant is very 

 remote. 



In honour of Miss Margaret Flockton, Botanical Artist, 

 Botanic Gardens, Sydney, whose meritorious drawings of Aus- 

 tralian plants are well known. 



RuTiDOSis LEiOLEPis F.V.M. New for New South Wales. 



Bibbenluke near Bombala (Miss E. Edwards; December, 1908), 

 The type-specimen was collected on the Snowy River, in 

 Victoria. Bibbenluke is on an eastern tributary of the Snowy 

 River in New South Wales, so it seems that the first recorded 

 New South Wales specimen has been collected not far from the 

 type-locality, though in an adjacent State. 



ErECHTITES VALERIi^N^FOLIA DC. 



An introduced weed, new for New South Wales. This plant 

 was reported in 1906, by Mr. F. M. Bailey, as overrunning certain 

 Queensland scrubs; and we now report- it also from New South 



