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Hiver. E. odoratus,Behr. (Peppermint gum), near Anticliamber 

 Bay. 



Aster iuJjuliJlorus, F. v. M. (Composite). — Sandy scrub near- 

 Erownlow, &c. 



SccevoJa Immilis, E,. Br. (Goodeniacere). — Low ground near 

 Lashmar's Lagoon and Anticliamber Bay. 



Westrlngia sp. (Goodeniacea^). — An erect slirub 2 to 2|- feet 

 higb, vritli slender branches and pale puce or white flowers, small 

 leaves in whorls of three and slender straight branchlets ; pos- 

 sibly W. eremicola, A. Cunn., or a species related to it. It 

 occurs, but not plentifully, in the scrub west of Cape AYil- 

 loughby. Fruit not seen. 



Sfjjphclia Woodsi, F. v. M. (EpacridccT). — A low, dense, erect 

 shrub on the limestone hills west of Mount Tisbet. 



CaUitris sp. — A small shrubby tree only a few feet high, the 

 leaves of which are very different from those of the only other 

 two species hitherto known in South Australia. Mr. Horswill,. 

 third keeper lighthouse. Cape Willoughby, handed me the 

 specimen seen, but without fruit. 



XantliorrhcEa sp. (Liliac-ea^). — The " Yacka (Yuccaf) Tree" of 

 the islanders. It forms one oE the most peculiar features of the 

 island, its stem 6 to 12 inches thick, rises sometimes to a 

 height of 12 feet, is cither branchless or bears a few, but these 

 seldom number more than two or three. The leaves are long, 

 narrow, stiff, and brittle, resembling those of X. semiplana, 

 but the midrib is more prominent ; the spike reaches 8 to 10 feet 

 in length, being 1} inch and more in diameter. Bentham'S' 

 description of X. arborea suits best for it, but it is more likely 

 a related species (if not the same) to that recorded from 

 Flinders Island under the name of X. hastilis, E. Br., by Gunn 

 in Hooker's Flora of Tasmania, of which Bentham says (Fl. 

 Austr. vii., 115) it " must belong to some other species, but 

 having no speciiiuMi it is impossible to identify it." Certainly 

 it is neither X. quadrangulata, F. v. M., which occurs sparingly 

 jiear Cape AVilloughby, and has evenly four-sided grass-like 

 leaves ; nor X. semiplana, which is stemless, and has quite^ 

 different leaf-marks on the interior of the rind. 



Lepidosperma Jineare, E. Br. (Eyperacea?). — In the scrub lands 

 of Hundred of Haines and elsewhere. A usually large form 

 compared with the specimen observed about Clarendon, &c. 



Foa sijrtica, F. v. M. (GraminccT). — A low, stiff, small-tufted 

 grass near high-water mark along the beach at Brownlow ta 

 Cygnet Eiver. 



Lagunis ovatus, L. — Probably introduced, a conspicuously 

 white-headed grass about Queenscliffe. 



A very curious aberrant form is also shown by Ixodia 

 (ichijlloides, compared with the very common plant, inhabiting 



