Flora of Amtralia. 133 



part," to Mueller's reticulata, and that Bauer's figure was named, 

 "doubtless on Brown's authority," L. straminea. Vague assump- 

 tions of this kind afford no gi'ounds for troublesome changes of 

 long-standing names. Indeed, a work of this chai'acter tends to 

 bring systematic botany into bad odour with workers in other 

 branches, who suffer from such changes, and if there is any diffi- 

 culty in regard to the specimens at the National Museum, Lon- 

 don, sm'ely the proper c(jur^6 is to add explanatorj* labels to 

 them, as in the above heading. Archa^olog}^ and botany are sepa- 

 rate subjects, and should be kept a2>art. 



Article 50 of the International Rules of Botanical Nomencla- 

 ture, 1905, says: — ''No one is authorised to reject, change or 

 modify a name (or combination of names) becjuuse of the exist- 

 ence of an earlier homonym which is universally regarded as non- 

 valid, or for any other motive either contestable or of little 

 import." Hence the names should remain as before, L. Brownii 

 Britten being a synonym for L. straminea (R.Br.), Bentham and 

 Mueller. 



Medicago hispida, Gaertn., var. inebmis, Urb. (Papilionaceae). 



(Syn. MiCDiCAGO RETICULATA, Beuth.). Determined at 



Kew Herbarium, England. 



Dimboola Shire, F. M. Reader, October 16th, 1898. Geelong 

 and Penshurst (1906), H. B. Williamson. 



This Medick was recorded by Mr. Reader in the Victorian 

 Natm-alist, vol. 19 (1903), p. 159, as Medicago turbinata, Willd., 

 but M. turbinata is quite a distinct plant from Reader's speci- 

 mens. It was also known here under the names of M. striata 

 and M. nummularia (M. cretioa), but dift'ers from both of the«e. 

 As no specimens of the above variety were in the National Her- 

 barium, the plants were sent to the Kew Herbarium for verifica- 

 tion, and determined as above. It is a naturalized alien from 

 Southern Europe. 



Olearia hqmolepis, F. v. M., var. PILOSA, new var. 

 (Compositae). 



Cowcowing, West Australia. Max Koch, No. 1087 (1904). 

 The variety differs from the type in having slightly longer 



