Flora oj- Australia. 541 



Anthers, bilobed, obcordate ; staniens not quite so long as the 

 petals. Gynaecium. — Ovary rough on the outside, 2-celled, the 

 upper part verj- convex. Style deeply iunnersed, as long as the 

 stamens. Stigma slightly bilobed. 



Youndegin, W. Australia. Alice Eaton, 1894. The specimens 

 were first examined by Mr. Luehmann, who considered its 

 nearest affinity to be B. pidrlwlla. Baron Mueller gave it the 

 apparently unpublished name of B. Eatotiuma (nomen nudum), 

 which is retained in the foregoing description. 



Cassinia aculeata, R. Br., var imbricata, F. M. Reader. 



This variety, at first called " appressa," and subsequently 

 '■ imbricata," was recorded in the Vict. Nat., 1905, vol. 22, p. 79. 

 The plant proves, how^ever, to be Humea squamata, F. v. M., 

 the new variety being the result of a mistake in identification. 

 As evidence of how easily the best of botanists may go astray 

 with composites of this character, it may be mentioned that 

 Baron Mueller referred his first described species to a new genus 

 (Haeckeria), although aware of the existence of the prior 

 genus of Humea, and that this particular species, when first 

 collected, was named Cassinia pholidota, F. v. M., by Mueller, 

 changed to Ozot/iamiius ])hnh'dota, F. v. M. (Fragm., ii., p. 131), 

 given in Bentham's Flora as Heliclirysum pholidotum, F. v. M., 

 and finally recorded as though it were a new species of Humea 

 (H. xquamata, F. v. M.), in the Fragmenta, xi., p. 86, without 

 any reference to the previous names. 



Galium parisien.se, L., var. ai.strale, n. var. 



The specimens come nearest to the variety angUcum of G. 

 parisiense, and have usually 5-7 leaves in the whorls. The 

 flowers, however, show a greater tendency to aggregate in small 

 terminal clusters and the fruits are slightly smaller, dark and 

 slightly roughened with small asperities. 



Goroke, Victoria, St. Eloy D'Alton, No. 7; Goulburu R., 1892, 

 W. Gates; Wannon R., below Hamilton, Vict., H. B. William- 

 son, No. 622 (no date), and same locality, Nov., 1898 ; Woo- 

 roloo. West Australia, Max. Koch, 1906, No. 1646. 



