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Gnaphalitcm candidissimum, Lam. On the eastern shore of 

 Kangaroo Point, growing in the sand in considerable quan- 

 tities. In contributions, &c., No.III. (Proc. R.S.T. 1873, p. 61) 

 this plant was noted as found " in the vicinity of Hobart 

 Town, on roadsides and in cultivated fields ;" and it is added : 

 " This is the first knowledge which we possess of this pretty 

 species having strayed out of its native home, South Africa." 

 W. W. Spicer. 



Gnaphalium Japonicum, var. sciadophora. Near Lake St. 

 Clair, Th. Gulliver. In this curiously aberrant form the capi- 

 tula are singly pedunculate and dispersed. 



Helichrysum dealhatum. Circular Head. 



Helichrysum pumilum. Lake Pedder, Arthur and Huoa 

 Plains, Johnston. 



* Helichrysum Gravesii. This fragrant shrub, to which at- 

 tention was first directed by Mr. Graves, came probably from 

 the South of Tasmania. It is allied to H. cuneifolium and H. 

 Backhousii, diifering from both already in the form of its 

 leaves. 



Senecio velleyoides. Honeywood, W. C. Blyth ; Gould's 

 Country, A. Simson. 



Senecis lautus, var. ; capillifolius. Sandy Bay, W.W. Spicer. 

 Near Circular Head, T. Stephens. 



** Onopordon acantliium, Linn. This very handsome thistle 

 appears in a few places about New Town. W. W. Spicer. 



** Carduus marianus, Gaertn, Common about New Town. 

 W. W. Spicer. 



** Gentaurea melitensis. New Town, W. W. Spicer. 



** Calendula arvensis and its more showy ally C. officinalis 

 are both thoroughly established at New Town. W.W. Spicer. 



Grepis virens, Linn. Deloraine, J. E. T. Woods. 



** XantJiiuin spinosum, Linn. (Bathurst Burr). Near the 

 Railway Station, Hobart Town. This very troublesome weed 

 also exists near Launceston ; but it does not appear to spread 

 with such rapidity in Tasmania as it does on the Australian 

 continent. W. W. Spicer. 



Microseris Forsteri. This plant is mentioned here for 

 several reasons ; first, because its extraordinary variability 

 of the pappus is not yet fully recorded ; I counted from 10 to 

 60 setae or palese, more frequently scabrous than plumous, 

 which when numerous are generally most slender, but when 

 fewer often all broad ; secondly, in alluding to this plant, 

 which by careful culture might yield a new esculent root for 

 cold countries (it prospering most on our snowy mountains), 

 an opportunity is afforded for pointing out that it was Solander, 

 who in Forster's prodromus called this plant Scorzonera 

 . scapigera ; it being not generally known that in that pro- 



