Floni of Aiu^tralni. 299 



Caladenia con(;K!sta, K. Br. "Slender Cfilfidein.-i." (Orchidaceae). 



Mt. Difficult. (Iranipiaus. J. W. Audas, 30/10/1;^ 

 Tho specimens have bronze to purple flowers. Bentliani gives 

 the tloAvers as 1-2 and pink. Luxuriant specimens also occur 

 with pale or puiplish pcriantlis, and they may have up to three 

 or four flowers. 



Cexti NCULi's MiviMU.s, L. "Chaff Weed " (Prinndaceae). 



This tiny plant is not recorded in Bentham's Flora Austra- 

 liensis, and in Baron von Mueller's Census is recorded as Aus- 

 tralian. In the Key to Victorian Plants, it is given with the native 

 plants, Init with the proviso, " possibly immigrated." The plant 

 was first collected in 1883 at Mt. Macedon as Anagallis centunculus, 

 and since then has been found as Hawkesdale (1899, F. M. Reader 

 and H. B. Willianison, and at Mentone, C. R. Roberts, 1910). 

 It is possibly more widely spread, but overlooked on account of its 

 small size. There can be no doubt that it is a naturalised alien 

 in Victoria, and not an original member of the native flora. 

 In Engler's Pflanzenreich (Primulaceae, 1905), it is recorded from 

 Europe, Asi.i, Africa, North and South America, but not from 

 Australia. 



CoNRiNOiA oKiEXTAMs, iJonii. " Haie's Ear." (Cruciferae). 



Warracknabeal, Borung Shire, Oct., 1913. St. Eloy Dalton, 

 Nov., 1904. 



First i-ecorded a garden escape, near Qimlwola, and now ap- 

 parently naturalised. A freely seeding annual, apt to smother 

 seedlings in cultivated land, but not poisonous, or specially in- 

 jurious. 



Cynosurus ECniNAius, Fi. " Rougli Dog's tail." (Graniineae). 



Drouin. February, 1913. W. C. Anders.. n and H. J. Lindsay. 



This grass is a native of Europe, whicli appears occasionally 

 on the shores of Great Britain. It appears to have definitely estab- 

 lished itself as a naturalised alien, and to be giowing plentifully 

 in at least one district of Victoria. The plant is an annual, and 

 less valuable as a pasture grass than the Crested D 

 (Cynosurus cristatus, L.), which is a perennial. 



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