Flora of Ailsl rolid,. 59' 



longer and iiidre ueeuuiinato than those of H. strigosa. 

 Stamens with very short tihinii'uts, anthers al)r)ut one line 

 long, each with long straight process about twice as long as 

 anther itself, processes free at tiji, iinah longer- than those of 

 H. strigosa. Tlie plant is nearest to //. xtrUjosa, Schlect, but 

 is smaller, has stouter and more numerous hairs, much smaller 

 appressed leaves, and longer anther appendages. From H 

 viseosa, Spencer Le Moore, it differs in having the strigose in- 

 dumentum even more strongly developed than in H. stri-gosa, 

 in the shorter and broader leaves, in the solitary stalked flowers 

 and in the anther ajipendages. 



Heliptkhum splkndidu'M, Hemsley. Botanical Magazine. Tab.. 

 7983, 1904^ H. kosku.m, Beuth. var. alba (Compositae). 



Hemsley's type specimen is a large flowered form of this- 

 species agreeing in the anthers, styles, bracts, aclienes, pappu.s,. 

 and leaves with the various forms of this somewhat variable 

 species. Plants grown at the Botanical Gardens from seed 

 obtained from Berthoud. in West Australia (who provided the 

 material through which the plant reached . Kew, and was 

 described as a new species), reverted to the smaller flowered 

 typical form of the variety alba. The large flowered form is 

 possiVjly onl}- developed under intensive cultivation. 



Kyllingia BREVIFOLIA, Both. (CJyperaceae). Det. by 

 G. Kukeiitlial. 



P<:)rt Jackson, R. Siegert, ISS-l. l>i-ol)al)ly inti'oduced. 



LlNAKlA VULGAKis, L. (Scrnpliulaiiueae). "Common Toad Flax." 



Bloomfield, Feb., 1910. J. 1'. McLennan. 



Ajiparently a garden escai)e hardly yet sufficiently estab- 

 lished to be considered naturalised. The plant is native to 

 Europe and Russian Asia, but has spread with crops to various 

 parts of the world. Hence it is likely to appear in other 

 localities in Victoria, and to ]»ersist when once established. 

 Its yellow clusters of flowers arc rather handsome. Though 

 without economic value it does not appear to be aggressively 



