366 NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY, XIV., 



Mr. Fitzgerald's specimen or our own is the nearer to R. Brown's- 



type, access to the t3^pe-specimen is necessary, and tliis is beyond 



our reach. 



GRA.MINE^. 



DiCHELACHNE BRACHYATHERA iStapf, n.sp., Kew Bulletin, 1906, 



p. 203. 



Swamp at head of Waterfall Gully, Mt. Wilson [Jesse Gregson 

 (Gryson, ia error, loc. cit.); March, 1906]. (Sent by us to Kew 

 for examination). 



This new species of Dichelachne is allied to D. sciurea Hook.f., 

 but is distinguished from it by the smaller spikelets, the more 

 unequal glumes, the much shorter awns, and the shorter anthers. 



POA COMPRESSA L. 



In these Proceedings, xxxiii., 1908, we recorded the above grass 

 as new for Australia. Prof. Ewart has since drawn our attention 

 to the fact that he has recorded this species as a naturalised alien 

 for Victoria. It seems probable that, in this State also, the 

 grass can be regarded only as an alien and not as truly 

 indigenous. 



FILICES. 



Gleichenia flagellaris Spreng. New for New South Wales. 



Cooranbong district, about 80 miles north of Sydney (J. W.. 

 Browne; March, 1909) ; Monga or Sugar-loaf Mountain, Braid- 

 wood (J. L. Boorman; March, 1909). 



This Malayan fern was previously known in Australia only 

 from a barren specimen collected on the top of the Macpherson 

 Range, and published by Mr. F. M. Bailey some twenty years 

 affo. It is common in the district from which we obtained the 



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specimens, and it is sure to be found, in the future, in other 

 Australian localities, but so far it seems to have escaped the 

 attention of collectors. 



Its systematic position is with G . Jiabellata, i.e., the group with 

 all the branchings leafy, but it is easily distinguished from it. 

 In G.Jiabellata the angles in the forks of the branches are acute, 



