Ewart avd Rees . 



Pkksoonia junipkkina, Labill., var. skricea, Ewart and Rees, 

 n. var. (Proteaceae). 



Grampians, Victoria, A. G. Campbell. 10/10/1911, and 27/1/ 

 1912. 



Differs from type speeimeu in being larger and more hairy. 

 Leaves rather more than one inch in length, and 1 — 1.5 lines broad, 

 and covered with short silky hairs, which are more conspicuous (ni 

 the younger parts. 



Flowers are also larger, being 6 lines long as compared with 

 4 — 5 lines in P. juniperina. 



PoTENTiLLA RKCiA, L. " Erect Potentil." (Ro.saceae). 



^litta Mitta Valley, Noorongong District, Victoria, Mr. Paton, 

 December, 1912. 



A native of Euroi)e and North Asia, previously recorded in Vic- 

 toria from the Western District. It is now evidently establishing 

 atself as a naturalised alien in Victoria. 



Ranunculus sakdous, Crantz. (Ranunculaceae). 



Port Franklin, December, 1912, H. B. Williamson, No. 1498, 

 "The moisture-loving Crowfoot." 



The plant is a native of Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, 

 and is probably a garden escape. It has not previously been re- 

 corded as growing wild in Victoria, The present specimens from 

 the sea coast have the flowers a brighter, deeper yellow than usual, 

 and the fruits are smooth, as in the variety, angxdatus (formerly 

 recognised as a distinct species) instead of with a row of miniite 

 tubercles on each face of the fruit. 



Rapistrum rugosum, All. "Giant Mustard or Tiunip-weed." 



(Cruciferae). 



Bacchus Marsh, Nictoiia. J. H. Tovey, Noveml)cr, 1910. 



Naturalised in the Bacchus Match district in tultivated land and 

 Avaste places, and evidently intrtxliued with imjiorted seeds. 



The plant is a native of South and Central Europe, where it is 

 conitnon in coin crops. It lias no known t'eononiii' value, and is a 

 freely seeding weed, troublesome on atcount of its seedlings foul- 

 ing the seed bed for the young c()rn. It is already recorded as a 

 naturalised alien in South Australia. 



