Flora of A usf ral id. 57 



Tlie plant is a native of Europe and of Kussian Asia except 

 at the extreme north. It grows on roadsides, rubbish heaps, 

 old manure tips and waste places, and is usually easily re- 

 cognised by its i)eculiarity of turning red, fii'st on the stems, 

 and especially when near the sea. In Victoria it has probably 

 been frequently mistaken for CJieNo/iijdium i/nira/e, which is 

 native, and which it resembles externally. The exotic C. 

 iirJticii/n L., to which it is closely allied, does not as yet appear 

 to hav^e entered Victoria. 



The plant is not poisonous. Its young shoots and leaves 

 have been used as a kind of spinach, and it also has a slight 

 value as a low grade fodder plant, especially for sheep. In 

 cultivated land it readily Ijecomes a troublesome weed if 

 neglected. 



Chorizema nervosa, T. Moore. (Leguniinosae). 



Near Cape Arid, West Australia, 1875 ; Maxwell, West Aus- 

 tralia; T. Drummond, No. 2;*) (not of 6th Coll., possibly of 5th 

 ColL). 



The latter specimen was placed under (^axtriJohiinti Jiidcns 

 Meisn., by Mueller, as the type of that species in Australia 

 on the basis of Bentham's reference to No. 2.3, Driunmond's 

 6th Coll. as Gastroh)hiuiii hidens. Noting the discrepancy in 

 the description a portion of the type of the true G. hidens was 

 obtained from Kew, which proved to be a different plant, and 

 the identification was corrected as above. Chorizema nervosa 

 is the No. 25 of Drummond's 5th collection. The present No. 

 23, may be of the 5th or some other collection, l)ut not of the 

 6th collection. 



EiiRHARTA PANiCEA, Smith. (Gramineae). (E. erecta, Lam). 



Goulburn, Nov., 1904 ; C. Walter (])rol)al)ly i)lanted as a pas- 

 ture grass) ; Domain, South Yarra, J. W. Audas and Colonel 

 Goldst-ein, March, 1910 (growing wild as a garden escape). 



This S. African grass is a perennial with more or less creep- 

 ing stems. It has a certain value as feed for grazing stock, but 

 only grows well in fairly moist or protected shady localities. 



