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margin of the seed ; the length and narrowness of leaves slightly- 

 departing from the normal form. There are specimens of H. dacty- 

 loides collected by C. Stuart in New England, having rigid narrow 

 leaves nearly approaching those of H. ulicina, to which specimens 

 ours appear to be very similar. 



Grevillea ilici folia, R. Br., Prot., Nov. 21, var., Scortechini, 

 F. v, M., Mss. 

 On the sandy banks of a deep gully. Its trailing habit un- 

 common for the species, which is described as a large spreading 

 shrub, the second racemes of flowers, the silvery underside of the 

 leaves would at once suggest G. laurifolia of frequent occurrence 

 on the Blue Mountains, or G. repens of more southern latitudes, 

 or something between the two. It is a very marked variety of 

 G. ilicifolia. Any botanist adopting less rigid views than Baron 

 von Mueller on the nature of species would perhaps have raised it 

 to specific rank. My impression was that its prostrate habit, the 

 distance from where G. ilicifolia has its home with no inter- 

 mediate stations, the rather more hemispherical than oblique 

 follicle covered with a white tomentum which on the back turns 

 deep purple in irregular lines, the larger flowers, the larger glans 

 would have afforded sufficient characters to separate it specifically 

 from G. ilicifolia. In a group of Grevilleas among which this is 

 numbered, none of them presenting highly differential marks it 

 seemed natural to give to it the same position as the others enjoy. 

 After a careful comparison the learned Baron comes to the con- 

 clusion that this is simply a variety of G. ilicifolia resting on the 

 larger size of the flowers, and greater prominence of the hypogy- 

 nous gland. I learn from the same authority that occasionally 

 G. ilicifolia is prostrate quite as much as G. repens, and that 

 G. ilicifolia has been traced by him so far back as 1854, into 

 N. S. Wales, though no record of it appears ever to have been 

 published. 



EUPHORBIACE.E. 



Bertya rosmarini folia. Planch in Hook, Lond. Jour., iv., 473. 

 In the cracks of rocks cropping up close to Quartpot Creek, 

 only a couple of capsules left on the plant have helped to its 



