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Flowers and fruits as in the broad -leaved mountain form, but the 

 slender stems are more numerous, and generally much more 

 branched. The mountain form has occasionally woolly-hairy pro- 

 liferous nodules in the axils of the lower branches ; the same 

 peculiarity is much more frequently to be found in var. angusti- 

 folia; in some specimens the nodules are in clusters close to the 

 root, so that the numerous stems seem to rise from a densely 



woolly-hairy stock. 



EPACRIDE^. 



Epacris impressa, Labill. 



Pigeon House Mountain, Milton (R. H. Cambage; January^ 



1903). 



CONVOLVULACEiE. 



Cressa cretica, Linn. 



Wanganella, Hay District (Miss E. Officer; May, 1903). 



A common plant in maritime and saline districts of the Old 

 and New World. In Australia it is recorded from all States 

 except Tasmania, and is common in South Australia, but in New 

 South Wales it is restricted to the south-western corner. 



Miss Officer writes: — "It covers large areas of open plain 



country in this district, especially land where water lies for a 



short time after rain. When in flower the whole air is scented 



by it." 



MY0P0RINE.5:. 



Myoporum desertt, a. Cunn. 

 Scone, Hunter Kiver (J. H. Maiden; May, 1902); Jenolan 

 Caves (W. F. Blakely; June, 1899). 



The two localities given are the most eastern localities of a 

 species common on the western plains. The specimens from both 

 localities are distinguished from the western specimens by the 

 thin texture of the leaves, and consequently very prominent oil- 

 glands. 



CHEN0P0DIACE5:. 



Bassia divaricata, F.v.M. 

 Denman, Hunter River (J. H. Maiden and J. L. Boorman; 

 May, 1902). 



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