Florti of A Hstndla. 7 



Picbalily both .1/. fHifon/n's and M. qiKidiangudaris, whose seed? 

 are very minute, Iiave been introduced with imported seeds, and 

 have been growing in Victoria for some time, but overlooKea on 

 ac( ount of tlieir small size, or confused with Sehaea ovata. 



MicKOMYRTUS MICKOPHYLLA, Beiith. (Myrtaceae). 

 Pine Mountain. Ijetween Tintaldra and Walwa, Victoria, k. J. 

 Ewart. 5/11/1912. 



MoDOLiA MULTiFiUA, Aloench. "Red-flowered Creeping Mallow." 

 (Malvaceae) 

 Spreading along the I'pper Murray above Tholgolong, Victoria, 

 A. J. Ewart. November. 1912. 



Myagrum PEBFOLlATUM, L. " Musk Weed." (Cruciferae). 



Wimmera Shire, Victoria, J. R. Tovey. January, 1913. 



A native of Europe and West Asia, naturalised in Victoria for 

 some years, but hitherto overlooked. Probably first appeared be- 

 tween 1900 and 1904, and "is now spread north over an area of 

 about ten miles from east to west, and five miles north to south, lying 

 twenty miles north of Horsham, and west of Yarranibiack Creek.' 

 ^Dr. S. Cameron). 



An allied plant Xeslia i^Myagrum) jjaniculatam is a troublesome 

 weed in Canada. The present species interferes with harvesting 

 by blocking the reaper, and it has been proclaimed for the whole 

 State. 



Olkaria spkciosa, Hutetiinson. (Compositae). 



Ill Curtis's Bot. Mag. Tab., 8118 (1907). 



The locality given is Australia. 



This plant was raised in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Eng- 

 land, from seed received in 1888 from the Botanic Gardt-ns, Mel- 

 bourne. We have received dried specimens, collected in the Gram- 

 pians, Victoria, by W. R. A. Baker, March, 1888, also from Hall's 

 Gap, Grampians, H. B. Williamson, December, 1902 and 1904, 

 which agree with the type specimen received from the Kew Her- 

 barium, thus giving a precise locality for the species. The species 

 may hence be added to the list of plants native to Victoria. The 

 leaves of the type specimen have rounded tips, but the leaves appear 

 to vary from round to pointed (Mr. Baker's specimen), and forms 

 with entirely pointed leaves appear to approach towards Olearia 

 mi/rsinoides, F.v.M. vai-. etiibescens. The relationship of this 

 variety to the above species needs further investigation. 



