S. setacea, var.? latifolia, Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 568. 
S. scelerata, Behr. Herb. ex Benth. l.c 
S. Austramia. Augusta, Behr; Crystal Brook, F. Mueller ; 
Murray River, Blandowskv. 
I have not seen any of the specimens quoted by Bentham, 
and from his brief description of this variety I am not able to 
judge their identity. 
S. striata, Link Hort. Berol. 98. 
AUSTRALIA ? 
II.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
We note with pleasure in the recently issued list of New 
Year Honours that His Majesty has been graciously pleased to 
appoint Dr. E. J. Buruer, Director of the Imperial Bureau of 
Mycology, to be a Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the 
Indian Empire, and Dr. I. B. Pote Evans, Chief, Division of 
Botany, Department of Agriculture of the Union of South 
Africa, to be a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of 
St. Michael and St. George. 
Mr. E. W. Davy, Agriculturist in the Agricultural Department 
of Nyasaland (K.B., 1905, 61), has been promoted by the Secretary 
of State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, to be 
Assistant Director of the Department. 
Mr. A. E. WALTERS, a member of the gardening staff of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, has been appointed by the Secretary of 
State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, a Field 
Assistant, attached to the Laboratories of the Chemical Research 
Department, Kenya Colony. 
Miss E. M. WaxerieLp.—At the request of the Secretary 
of State for the Colonies, Miss Wakefield has been seconded for 
temporary service in the Imperial Department of Agriculture 
for the West Indies, to act as Mycologist to the Department. 
Miss Wakefield left Kew to take up her duties in Barbados in 
August, 1920. On the completion of her work in the West 
Indies, she will visit some of the pathological institutions in the 
United States of America, having been elected to a Travelling 
wae y ime by the Mary Ewart Trustees, before returning to 
y to resume her duties. During the first two months of 
Miss Wakefield’s absence, Mr. Small, Mycologist in the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Uganda, has spent a considerable portion of 
his leave in carrying on the mycological work in the Herbarium, 
having been deputed to perform this service by the nemebe 
of State for the Colonies. 
