58 Ewart, Rees and Wood: 



In gardens and cultivated land it would be apt to become a 

 troublesome weed. 



EscHSCHOLTZiA CALiFOHNiCA, Cham. (Papaveraceae). 



Growing wild on the fiats along the Loddon at Baringhup. 

 Apparently a garden escape hardly naturalised as yet. 

 J. M. B. Connor, April, 1910. 



Gnaphalium PURPUREUM, L. (Compositae) " Purple cud weed." 



Near Dimboola, F. M. Reader, August, 1893 ; Korumburra, 

 H. Crisp, December. 1902 : Otway Forest, H. B. Williamson, 

 Deceml)er, 1903 : Gippsland, W. Wallace, Novemtoer, 1904 ; 

 Toora, W. Stewart, December, 1907. 



This plant has not been hitherto admitted into the census as 

 Victorian owing to the specimens having been classed as a 

 variety of Gnaphalium japonicum. Although they have not 

 the woolly bracts of the original Australian type specimens 

 they have the pappus hairs cohering in a distinct ring at the 

 base, and tally closely with old world specimens. The woolli- 

 ness of the bracts and the shape of the leaves appear to be 

 variable features. 



Halgania krecta, n. sp., Ewart and Rees, 



Victoria Desert Camp, 38, September, 1891, R. Helms. 



.Small l)ranching shrul.) about 8in. in height. Stems woody, 

 bearing a glandular viscid scabrescence intermingled Avith a 

 few rigid appressed hairs of peculiar type, and as in H. strigosa 

 attached at the centre, and having two processes extending 

 apically and basalh' in the same line or at a slight angle. 

 Leaves about ^ in. long, entire when young, usually becoming 

 slightly 3-dentate when older, appressed, sessile, slightly nar- 

 rowed at the base, margins incurved, whole leaf somewhat con- 

 cave, under surface bears a number of stiff white hairs similar 

 to those on the stems, also traces of the viscid scabrescence. 

 Flowers stalked apparently solitary and axillary — Calyx — 

 5 sepals, li lines long, linear accuminate bearing short hairs. 

 Petals dark l)luc i-ather l)road, narrowing- to pointed apex. 



