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Kidsvold District, Queensland. This species forms a_ shrub 
from 6-15 ft. high, a nd on an average about 10 ft. high. In 
the axils of some of ies leaves of the young stots slender terete 
at Kew or in other British herbaria show the spines, but they were 
met with by Mueller, who mentions in his aioe al description 
that the species is occasionally spinescent. This character is not 
referred to in K.B. 1917, p. 171, but the similar, though longer, 
spines of the S. arborea, which Mr. Maiden informs us is a stout 
sturdy Pa, are figured on p. 172. The figure has been inverted 
by mist A. W. H. 
Enneapogon mollis in Ascension Island. —ln A.B. 1917, p. 
217, an account is given of the sudden appearance of this grass 
in the island. A further letter has now reached us from the 
Director of Victualling, Admiralty, enclosing the following 
extract from a later letter received from the Farm Superintend- 
ent, giving further particulars about the grass :— 
‘‘'The grass appeared first in Wide- a-wake Plain—it was prob- 
ably brought entangled in the feathers of the Sooty Tern, which . 
nest. on this Plain in millions about every eight months, and 
after rearing their young all depart again, either to the West 
Coast of Africa or elsewhere 
‘“‘ Being in the strong trades here, the seed only blew from 
the Plain in a north-westerly direction, covering in a large, fan- 
like shape to Garrison the ‘intervening land for 3} miles by 2 
miles at the front—behind the Plain, to windward, no grass was 
growing. 
gee have since collected some seed and have sown it to wind- 
ward in other places and am now awaiting results. The grass 
first made its appearance in the hot season in February “and 
March, after the heavy tropical rains, which were unusually 
plentiful this year. It commenced to seed in April 1 and May. 
and lasted on as green grass till August—the heavy rains enc 
about July, when the grass, which is an annual, commenced to 
dry off and the ground is at present covered with the dry grass 
and a great quantity of seed. 
*“T am now anxious to see what happens after the next heavy 
rains, which may occur again next year; but I ave known five 
consecutive years with scarcely any heavy rain on the lower 
levels of the island, up’ to 1000 
** Every endeavour should be aa to make as much hay as 
aoe if the grass appears again, for the little we made is 
xcellent, and its nature reminds me of hay made in England 
Fide Trifolinm 
