{•2 I'HK VICTOKIAK naturalist. [Vol. XXIV. 



Island on 27th December, 1906. He says: — ''On the mud 

 flats, above liigh water mark, grew Salicornia robtista, S. auslralis, 

 Suceda maritima, and Frankenia hevis. Samolvs repens, with 

 both pink and white flowers, grew about the junction of these 

 flats with the sand, and on the sand-banks grew A triplex cinereum, 

 A. paludosum, Tetragona expansa, Rhagodia billardieri, and a 

 species of Chenopodium, in great quantity. Wherever there was 

 root-hold in the shifting sand of the sea-front, Cakile maritima 

 and Salsola kali were noted, and on the south-west side, which is 

 most exposed, the rush, Scirpus nodosus, and the grasses, 

 Distichlis maj-itima and Poa billardieri, were plentiful. At the 

 north-west corner, where the sand has drifted into a hummock 

 some ten feet in height, are the only attempts at larger 

 vegetation. Here there are some fine bushes of Styphelia richei, 

 Acacia longifolia, Myoporum insulare, along with Helichrysum 

 ciiiereum, Aster axillaris, and Calocephalus broivnii. The only 

 introduced plants noticed were Anagallis arvensis, Urtica urens, 

 and Carduus lanceolatus." 



[The paper was illustrated by a large series of lantern slides. — 

 Ed. Vict. iVat.] 



NEW OR RARE AUSTRALIAN PLANTS IN THE 

 NATIONAL HERBARIUM, MELBOURNE. 



By Prop. A. J. Ewart, Ph.D., D.Sc, F. L.S., &c., Government 



Botanist. 



{Read befure the Field Naturalists' Cluh of Victoria, 8th Ajyril, 1907.) 



Andropogon erianthoides, F. v. M. — Graminese. 

 Shepparton, December, 1900. 

 Previously recorded from New South Wales and Queensland. 



Anthocercis odgersii, F. v. M., Fragm., x., p. 19. 



This plant was described by Baron von Mueller from a small 

 fragment only, and to the necessarily incomplete description the 

 following may be added : — 



This plant is a dwarf shrub of 6 inches to 2 or 3 feet in height, 

 resembling externally some of the woolly species of Anthotroche, 

 and of such Verbenacese as Newcastlia and Chloanthes. It is, in 

 fact, the Chloanthes drummondi of the Elder Exploring Expedition. 

 The leaves vary from rounded or ovate to broadly linear, do not 

 exceed an inch in length, and are usually less. The corolla is 

 pale yellow to brown, campanulate, with 5 equal spreading pointed 

 lobes. The fruit is a capsule with a thin median partition, and 

 splits into 4 valves nearly to the base. The seeds are few, 2 to 

 4, each 3 mm. long by i broad, curved and finely reticulate with 

 longitudinal and transverse ridges. 



