320 Eivart and WJdte : 



(2) The florets have a pappus of fine hairs, phimose at the 



tip, as in Calocephalus Skeatsiana. 



(3) The outer bracts of the partial heads are small, narrow, 



are green and opaque, with scarious tips. The inner 



ones are completely scarious, and are very narrow, 



with conspicuous tips. 



In Calocephalus Skeatsiana, the partial heads are still more 



strongly developed, with a marked general involucre, and the 



bracts of the partial heads are somewhat similar, with a green 



foliose centre, scarious margins, and non-radiating tips. In 



both species there is a strong development of fine wool on the 



bracts around the partial heads. 



Probably Eriochlamys Belirii, S. and M., is not the only 

 species of this genus in Australia. A specimen from Balonne, R. 

 Henry Wehl, 1896, has the outer and inner bracts resembling 

 those of Eriochlainys, and has an undeveloped pappus. The 

 material is, however, insuifficient for description. 



Calocephalus Knappil is known from the following localities : 

 Finke R., South Australia, Rev. H. Kempe, Dec, 1879, 1880 and 

 1882. Between Gascoyne and Fortescue Rivers, H. S. King, 

 1885. 



Galium murale, All. (Rubiaceae). 



This small plant, a native of the Mediterranean region, is 

 often overlooked on account of its rather small size, but is now 

 frequent in springtime, especially in pastures. 



North-west, West and South-west of Victoria. F. M. Reader, 

 1909. 



Hakka Pritzklli, Diels.; Fragm. Phytog. Austr. Occid., p. IG3 

 = H. GLABELLA, R. Br., sub-species H. prostuaia, R. Br. 



The Melbourne Herbarium contains a perfect series of transi- 

 tions between this variety or sub-species and the type H. 

 glabella. These specimens, including several originally named 

 3. amplexicaulis, and partly transferred by Bentham, partly by 

 Mueller to H. (/lahella, including Oldfield's Murchison R. speci- 

 men, were apparently overlooked by Diels, and in any case if a 

 new species is to be raised it would need to be under the name 

 H. prostrata, R. Br., although the original description is short 



