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size of the leaves and leaflets. Each leaf has a stout common 

 stalk of about 5 cm. length, forking into two paripinnate 

 branches of 30 cm. or more, and bearing 3 or 4 pairs of large 

 elongated ovate leaflets averaging 30 cm. length by 10 cm. broad, 

 on short thick pulvini of about 1 cm. 



Fruits and seeds as in A. vaillantii, but the former with more 

 numerous and minute yellow hairs on the outer surface. 



Arenaria axillaris, Luehm. = Stellaria glauca. With., var. axil- 

 laris, Luehm. (Caryophylleae). 



From material collected by Mr. Reader on the same locality, 

 there can be no doubt that the plant is to be referred to Stellaria 

 glauca, vai'. The specimens are identical, and have the cleft 

 petals of Stellaria, a point which can not be satisfactorily deter- 

 mined in Luehmann's original specimens. 



Aster dumosus, L. (Compositae). 



A North American weed which appears to be spreading in 

 Victoria, and which has evidently reached this State from New 

 South Wales, where it has long been recorded. Our specimens 

 were identical with those in the Herbarium labelled Tripolium 

 conspicuum, Lindl., from the Paris Museum. As this species 

 apparently stands in the Kew Index in spite of the reference to 

 Aster, .specimens were sent to Kew and determined as above. 

 Synonyms for A. dumosus, L., are T. conspicuum, Lindl. ; Aster 

 imbricatus, Walp. (but not of L.); A. arenaroides, Eaton. 



Bellida, new genus (Compositae). 



Annuals or perennials with radical leaves, and inflorescences at 

 the ends of long simple stalks, leafless, or with a small bract on 

 the shaft. Bracts of the involucre imbricate, scarious in a double 

 series, the inner ones larger. Florets all alike, regularly 5-toothed, 

 tubular and yellow, with no scales between them. Anthers with 

 well-marked appendices and with rounded bases. Style and 

 stigma of Asterae. Fruit on a distinct stalk, and obliquely 

 inserted on the head. Pappus of two .small, separable, cup-like 

 scales, each bearing a single row of stiff bristles. 



