Flora, of Ansfraliti. 301 



of the Irideae are poisonous, and hence objectionable in pastures. 

 It may now be regarded as an established naturalised alien. 



GoMPHRKNA CANESCENS, K. Bi'. ( Amaraiitaceae). 



Herbert Bros.' Station, No. 2, Darwin. G. F. Hill, 28/5/]:!. 

 This plant has reddish-purple heads and seems worthy of garden 

 cultivation. The heads of the ordinary form are usually pale in 

 colour. 



Helipterum Guilfoylki, Evvart. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, vol. xx. 

 (n.s.), p. 82. 1907 = H. Zacchkus^, 8. le Moore. (Compositae). 



Mr. Spencer le Moore writes that the achenes of this plant differ 

 only from those of H. Zaccheus, S. le; Moore, in lieing rich brown 

 instead of dark slate colour and slightly shorter, and also finds 

 the same peculiar mucilaginous layer in H. Zaccheus that was first 

 described for H. Guilfoylei. The latter, therefore, becomes a 

 synonym to the former. 



Hydrocotyle medicaginoides Turcz. "Trefoil Pennywort." 

 (Umbel life raft). 

 Miss J. E. Tilden, No. 811. Point Lonsdale, Nov., 1912. Not 

 previously recorded for the south of Victoria. 



Hyoscyamus albus, L. "White Henbane." (Solanaceae). 



Williamstown, Victoria. C. French, junr., Oct., 1913. 



Noted as a garden escape at Cashel nearly 20 years ago, and 

 now definitely naturalised. The fruit is peculiar, opening by a 

 lid. In ancient times this plant was regarded as a sacred plant, 

 and sometimes smoked like tobacco as a preventative for toothache. 

 It belongs to a poisonous genus, and contains a hypnotic and 

 deleriant poison, hyoscyamin, but appears to be much less poisonous 

 than the black Henbane, Hyoftct/amns niger. 



LiNAKiA ELATINK, li. "Hairy Toad Flax." (Scrophulariaceae). 



Spreading in the Werribee district. C. French, junr., Oct., 

 1913. ■ 



LiPPiA NODIFLORA, Mich, var. SARMENTOSA. ( Verbcuaceae). 



Williamstown. J. R. Tovey, Jan., 1914. 



The plant grows in dense mats in the gutters and has evidently 

 been introduced by foreign shipping. It is a common tropical 



