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Rissoina elegantula, Angas. 

 Bissoina crassa, Angas. 

 Cingula spina, Crosse. 

 Turbonilla acicularis, Adams. 

 Parthenia gracilis, Angas. 

 Oscilla ligata, Angas. 

 Leiostraca acutissima, Angas. 

 Triforis Angasi, Crosse. 

 Cerithiopsis croccea, Angas. 



BOTANY. 



BiBLIOGEAPHICAL NOTES EeFUTING THE ALLEGED AlIEN 



Natuee of Two Species or South Austealian Plants. 



1. Oeobanche CEniffVA, Bentham (non Loejl.) — In the pages 

 o£ our Transactions, vol. iv., p. 135, 1881, I have given my 

 reasons for the opinion that the only Australian species o£ the 

 genus is indigenous, and probably distinct from the European 

 plant with which it had been conjoined. Baron Sir P. von 

 Mueller, in his recently published " Systematic Census of Aus- 

 tralian Plants," has given the Australian plant specific rank 

 under the name of Orohanclie australiana. Lately, I have had 

 an opportunity of reading James Backhouse's " Narrative of a 

 Visit to the Australian Colonies," and therein, at p. 511, I 

 find recorded the occurrence of "an Orohanche very like O. 

 minor of England " on sandy ground covered by cypresses near 

 Port Adelaide. I have gathered 0. australiana at the same 

 station ; the two plants are evidently conspecific ; and as 

 Backhouse's observations were made November 30 and De- 

 cember 12, 1837, so soon after the settlement of the colony no 

 room for doubt is left as to its endemic origin. In September 

 of this year I found it in the dry bed of Mount Parry Creek, 

 Aroona Eange, where it is parasitic on the roots of Ixolsena 

 tomentosa. 



2. Yeebena officinalis, Linn. — By some this is considered 

 an alien ; but as Backhouse noted it in 1837 along the borders 

 of the River Torrens, its claim to rank as an endemic species is 

 thereby satisfactorily established. In the " Flora Austra- 

 liensis," it is recorded as occurring "near Adelaide, Blan- 

 doivslci ; and towards Spencer's Grulf, Warhurton.'" To these 

 localities I can add banks of the Little Para River near Salis- 

 bury, banks of the River Murray about Morgan, Lake Alexan- 

 drina at Point Pomond, gullies to the east of Belair and around 

 the Springs near Mount Graham. B. Tate. 



