190 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. XXIV. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF AUSTRALIA. 



No. VIII.* 



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

 Botanist and Professor of Botany at the Melbourne University, 

 assisted by J. R. Tovey, First Herbarium Assistant. 



{Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 10th Feb., 1908.; 



Acacia glanduligicarpa, F. M. Reader — Leguminosse ; Vict. 

 Nat, xiii., p. 146 (1896). 

 Many specimens of this plant have been referred in the past 

 to a variety of A. montana with short, broad, falcate phyllodia, 

 instead of the normally elongated ones. Although the species 

 appears to be valid on the present evidence, it is certainly more 

 closely allied to xi. montana than to A. obliqua, although the 

 shape of the phyllodia is very different. The possibility of a 

 hybrid origin of this species must be borne in mind. For the 

 present, assuming it to be valid, the range must be extended to 

 South Australia (Yorke Peninsula, O. Tepper) and the Wimmera 

 district. Specimens of it have been variously referred to A. 

 montana (C. Walter), to A. montana, var. (Luehmann), and to A. 

 armata, spineless form (F. Reader). 



Cladophora crispata (Roth), Kg., Darebin Creek, Victoria. 



A form of this New Zealand alga, identified by Major Reinhold. 

 Mr. A. D. Hardy informs me that he has found the same plant in 

 backwaters of the Yarra, but that the species has not been 

 recorded for Victoria. 



Pultenaea Gunnii, Benth., var. flava, n, var.f 



A variety with yellow flowers. Wandin, P. R. H. St. John. 

 October, 1907. 



Naturalized Aliens. 



Many of the plants on this list have long been recognized, but 

 not recorded. A complete list will be issued shortly. 



Agropyrum caninum, Beauv., Graminese ; Goulburn, C. Walter, 



1902. 

 Agropyrum repens, L., Graminege ; widely spread. 

 Agrostis stolonifera, L., Graminese ; Goulburn, C. Walter, 1903. 

 Andropogon erianthoides, F. v. M., Graminege ; Shepparton, C. 



Walter, 1900. A native of N.S.W. and Qld. 

 Apera spica-venti, Beauv. (Agrostis), Graminege ; Goulburn, C 



Walter, 1903. 



*No. VII. in Proc. Royal Soc. of Vict, vol. xx., p. 125, 1908. 



+ Or a sub- variety of P. Gunnii itself, if this species is reducible to a variety 

 of P. stricta. 



