218 Alfred J. Ewart: 



Eriochloa punctata, Hamilt. (Graniineae). 



Near Echuca, per T. Purves, 14/11/1914. 



Baton von Mueller gives one species, E. polystachya, as Victorian. 

 In the Herbarium there was only one specimen from a Victorian 

 locality , from Herbarium C. Walter, which proved to be wrongly 

 named. Baron von Mueller, in his first Census of Australian Plants, 

 and Bentham, in his Flora Australiensis, give two Australian 

 species, Eriochloa punctata and E. annulata, the latter differing in 

 size, hairiness, and in its rather more pointed spikelets. It is 

 possible that both E. punctata and E. annulata may lie varieties of 

 E. polystachya. 



Freesia repracta, Klatt. (Irideae). 



East Camberwell and Canterbury, C. French, jnr., 1915. 



The plant is spreading as a garden escape along the railway at 

 East Camberwell and Canterbury. The spread of this handsome 

 decorative plant is to l)e welcomed in the localities mentioned. It 

 has no injurious properties, and may in years to come become 

 definitely naturalized here and in other localities. 



Olharia, exul, Lindi. (Compositae). 



Recorded from the Victorian Alps, in Vict. Naturalist, Vol. 27, 

 1910, page 113, should be Olearia Frostii, F.v.M. 



Lepidium oxytrichum, Sprague = L. papillosum, F. v. M. 

 (Oruciferae). 



Sprague (Kew Bulletin No. •".. p. 123, L915) raises this name as 

 denoting a plant having a different clothing of hairs and a 

 triangular sinus instead of a straight-sided sinus at the apex of the 

 silicule. In the original description of L. papillosum (Linnaea, Vol. 

 XXV., 370, 1852), the sinus is given merely as being narrow. 

 In the Crystal Brook specimen the sinus varies from straight-sided 

 to triangular, and the same is shown on many others. 



Mueller attached too much importance to the "papillose hairs." 

 Oldfield's Murchison River specimen, which was examined by 

 Bentham, has the slender linear subulate hairs of " L. oxytrichum "; 

 oiImi- specimens show hairs of intermediate character, and in the 

 variety intermedium described by Reader, the plant has a tendency 

 '" •'• perennial habit, and the papillose hairs are very small or 

 reduced to mere points. Hence too much importance should not be 

 attached bo a character derived from hairs. 



