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iDetter placed under Threlheldia. Certainly if Bassia salsu- 

 ginosa, F. v. M., be retained in Threlkeldia, which was 

 Mueller's second choice (see Fragni., vii., 12), then B. 

 inchoata must also be placed in that genus. It seems a more 

 practical arrangement to restrict Bassia to the spinous species, 

 and I therefore propose to rename B. inchoata as Threlkeldia 

 ohliqua. 



Amarantaceae. — Trichiniuiti Whitei, J. M. Black (see 

 Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., xxxviii., 464). 



Caryophyllaceae. — Herniaria hirsuta, L. Woolshed 

 Flat, near Quorn (November, 1914, Miss J. Mills). Replies 

 have not yet been received as regards specimens submitted 

 to European botanists, so that there is a possibility of error 

 in a genus where the specific distinctions are so slight. An 

 exactly similar specimen, gathered near Wallaroo in Novem- 

 ber, 1880, is in the Tate Herbarium, placed under Cheno- 

 podiiim cristatiim. H. hirsuta is a Mediterranean and 

 Central European plant, and appears from the foregoing to 

 have been established for some time in South Australia, but 

 is probably localized and rare. The same may be true of H . 

 incana, Lam., which was found in the eighties near Blanche- 

 town on the Murray and at Aroona Water, in the Far North, 

 and was recorded by Mueller and Tate as indigenous. Evi- 

 dently, however, there was plenty of time for its introduction 

 from Europe during half a century of settlement. (Since the 

 above was written, the determination of H . hirsuta has been 

 confirmed by the authorities at Kew and at the Mnseum 

 d'histoire natnrelle, Paris.) 



Leguminosae. — In the Flora Australiensis, ii., 177, 

 Bentham states that the anthers of Goodia are ''all versatile, 

 alternately smaller," and this description is repeated in all 

 the botanical works dealing with the genus which I have seen. 

 The fact is, that the anthers of Goodia (like those of Bossiaea 

 and Platylohium ) are all uniform and versatile (dorsifixed), 

 while the filaments are alternately long and short in the bud, 

 but become almost equal in length when the flower opens. 

 In Templetonia and Hovea not only are the filaments alter- 

 nately long and short, but the long filaments bear long basi- 

 fixed anthers and the short filaments bear short dorsifixed 

 anthers. In these two genera also the filaments tend to 

 become equal in the open flower. In the bud of Crotalaria 

 five of the filaments are long and broad, bearing long, basi- 

 fixed anthers, while the five alternate filaments are short and 

 slender, bearing short, dorsifixed anthers; in the expanded 

 flower the position is reversed, for the slender filaments have 

 grown until the short anthers far surpass the long ones, and 



