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** Ranunculus muricatus, Linn. New Tt)wn, in a wet ditch 

 on the road to Risdon Ferry. It is very similar to the native 

 E. parviflorus Linn., but larger and coarser, W. W. Spicer. 



Papctver aculeatuvi, var. : pusillum, King's Island, Neate. 

 The whole plant barely three inches high. Stem capillary ; 

 leaves only 2 to 6 lines long ; length of calyx hardly above 

 two lines. 



* GaJcile maritima, Scopol. Flor. Carniol. ii., 35. On the 

 coast near Circular Head, not uncommon, particularly near 

 high water mark. It is remarkable that this conspicuous and 

 singular plant should have been overlooked so long in Tas- 

 mania, where, from my personal enquiry among the local 

 coast residents, it seems to be indigenous ; but it was also not 

 before 1861 that the Cakile became by my own investigations 

 discovered^on the coast of the Australian mainland. George's 

 Bay. A. Simson. 



** Senehifra coronopus, Poir. An European weed now 

 firmly established in the neighbourliood of Hobart Town, 

 though evidently of much later introduction than S. didyma 

 Pers. 



Drosera hinnta, La Bill. Southport, J. E. T. Woods ; Port 

 Davey, J. R. Scott. 



Drosera Menziesii, R. Br. Gould's Country, George's Bay, 

 A. Simson. 



Pittosporum licolor, Hook. Gould's Country. A. Simson. 



* Pittosporum undulatum, Venten., hort., Cels, t. *1Q. Very 

 rare in the mountainous forests near the Arthur River. The 

 credit of the discovery of this beautiful tree is due to Messrs. 

 Emmett; who directed my attention to this plant as new for 

 Tasmania by sending me a coloured drawing, prepared by 

 Mrs. Emmett, and who subsequently conducted me to the spot, 

 where long since the only tree originally observed by them was 

 felled. Such is the equable moisture of those ranges, that the 

 stem, after having been severed from the root for several 

 years, had pushed forth some new foliage ; this with the 

 drawing of the flowers has left hardly any doubt of the identity 

 of this Pittosporum with the true P. undulatum, which is 

 known to extend to Western Port on the Victorian coast ; 

 fruits from Tasmania have, however, not yet been seen by me. 

 I learn that a few more trees of this noble species were 

 noticed since in the same region. 



Comesperma ericinum, Caud. Gould's Country, A. Simson ; 

 Honeywood, J. E. T. Woods. 



Comesperma calycomega, La Bill. George's Bay, A. Simson ; 

 Southport, J. E. t. Woods. 



Comesperma defoliatum. At Gibson's Plains, and on other 

 heath tracts towards the River Arthur. 



