Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 22 (N.S.), Fart II., 1909.] 



Art. XXL — Contrihiitions to the Flora of Australiay 



No. IS. 



By ALFRED J. EWAllT, D.Sc, Pn.D., F.L.S.; 



AND 



JEAN WHITE, D.Sc. 



(With Plates LVI.-LX.). 

 [Read 9th December, 1909]. 



Allium Scorodoprasum, L. (Liliaceae). " Sand Leek. 



Greenvale, North-eastern district, Victoria. James Musgrove, 

 November, 1908 and 1909. 



A native of Europe and Western Asia, and now may be con- 

 sidered as naturalized in Victoria. The umbel is occasionally 

 reduced to a head of bulbs without any flowers. These main- 

 tain the plant locally, but do not spread it in the same way that 

 seed do. Old bulbs will usually flower, especially after being 

 dried off. The plant is not poisonous or actively injurious, but is 

 a useless Aveed. capable of becoming troublesome if neglected. 



An(;ianthus axiliflorus (W. V. Fitzgerald, MS. iiied.), Ewart 

 and White, n. sp. (Compositae). 



Rather rigid herbs .3-4 inches in height. There is one woody 

 mainstalk which gives off short lateral branches from the axils 

 of the alternate leaves. Leaves very pale green, only very few 

 on the main stem, but crowded and tuft-like on the short 

 lateral branches ; 3-5 lines long, sessile, slightly ensheathing at 

 the base, linear-lanceolate, glabrous and somewhat rigid and 

 pointed. 



Inflorescence of lateral or terminal compound heads. Each 

 compound head is surrounded by a number of leaf-like glabrous 



