[Peoc. Eoy. Soc. Victoria, 23 (N.S.), Pt. I., 1910. 



Art. XII. — Contributions to tJte Flora of Australia, 



No. 14: 



BY 



ALFRED J. EWART, D.Sc, Ph.D., F.L.S. 



(Government Botanist and Professor of Botany in Melbourne 

 University) ; 



BERTHA REES 



(Government Eeseai'ch Scholar) ; 



AND 



BERTHA WOOD, B.Sc. 

 (With Plates XII.-XIII.) 

 [Bead 9th June, 1910.] 



Atriplex patulum, L. vai- hastata, Gray. (A. hastata L.). 

 (Chenopodiaceae). 



H. B. Williamson, Foreshore, Geelong, April, 1910 : Railway 

 Reijerve, N. Melbourne, J. R. T'ovey and C. French, junr., April, 

 1910. 



A. patiilum has already been recorded as a naturalised 

 alien, but not this variety, which is still recognised in the Kew 

 Index and in Engler's Pflanzenfaniilien as a distinct species, 

 although both Gray and Bentham have shown the necessity of 

 including it with other forms, as varieties of or subspecies of 

 A. patulum. 



BUPLEURUM ROTUNDiFOLiUM, L. (Uuibelliferae). "Hare's ear." 



Lower Loddon, R. Thorn, 1882 ; Huntly, L. Fraser, Nov., 

 1875 ; and various Victorian localities ; near Sydney (New 

 South Wales); Dr. WooUs, Oct., 1871. 



Naturalised as an alien in Victoria, but not previously re- 

 corded. 



The plant has been by some identified as £. protractnvi, 

 Hofif. and Link. If this species is valid, it is distinguished by 



1 No. 13 in vol. xxi., 1910, p. 315, of the Proceedings of this Society. 



