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A Revision of the Flora of Kangaroo Island 



AND OTHER BOTANICAL NOTES RELATING 

 THERETO. 



By Professor Ralph Tate, F.L.S., RG.S., &c. 



[Read December 4, 1888.] 



In a " List of Plants additional to the Flora of Kangaroo 

 Island" (Trans. Roy. Soc, S. Aust., for 1888, p. 290) are certain 

 species recorded the correct identification of which I was disposed 

 to challenge, and for this purpose the author of the list kindly 

 submitted for my examination the majority of the species which 

 formed the basis of that enumeration. After very careful study, 

 so far as the condition of the specimens would allow, I offer the 

 following corrections :— 



RJiagodia ijaraholica is Chenojyoclium ylaucum. 



FultencEa villifera is *P. cancdiculata. 



Pulte7icea irrostrata is *P. involucrata. 



Acacia acinacea is A. hrachyhotrya. 



Acacia hrevifolia is A. longifolia. 



Leptosjjermum erubescens is L. Icevigatum. 



Melaleuca ericifolia is M. 2Xtrvifiora. 



Cryptandra amara is C. hispidida. 



Si^yridium pomaderroides 1 n . i i ^ 



Spyridiumcoacmfolinm ] ^™ Cm^tandra obovata. 



Spyridium hifidum is "^Cryjytandra scahrida. 



Opercularia ovata is 0. varia. 



Vallisneria sp). is Ruppia unaritima. 



Blyxa Roxburghi is a confer void. 



Hydrilla verticillata is *Myriophylhim Miielleri. 



Aristida Behriana is Ehrharta stipoides. 



Cassytha sp. is a variety of C. pubescens with warty stems, but 

 is readily connected with the more common form on the mainland, 

 having a smooth stem. 



Tetratheca sp. is T. ericifolia, of w^hich two varieties occur on 

 Kangaroo Island — a. var. aphylla, which has rough leafless stems 

 branching from the base, and large five-merous flowers ; b. var. 

 j)ilosa, which has very short, hispid, narrow-lanceolate leaves and 

 smaller four-merous flowers. 



* Species now recordea for the first time. 



