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stunted form of P. effusum (these Trans., xxxviii., 460) , 

 "seems to be in great abundance after rain." 



Cyperaceae. 

 Lepidosperma piscidum, R. Br. Sherlock (F. Denford ; 

 Dist. M) ; Halbury: Gladstone; Beetaloo (Dist. N). The 

 Gladstone specimens have the stem fully 6 mm. broad. 



JUNCACEAE. 



Juncus pauciflorus, R. Br. Murray Bridge (Dist. M). 



LlLIACEAE. 



* Allium rot nudum, L. Received from Lochiel per Pro- 

 fessor Osborn. A Mediterranean plant with numerous purple 

 flowers arranged in a globular head or umbel. This is the 

 first occasion on which it has been found in South Australia. 



Proteaceae. 

 Hakea ulicina, R. Br., var. flexilis, F. v. M. (11. flexilis, 

 F. v. M.). Flinders Range, near Laura. 



Chenopobiaceae. 



Cheiiopodiuni atriplicinum, F. v. M. Carrieton : Quorn : 

 Woolshed Flat (Dist. N). 



Kochia lohiflora, F. v. M. Carrieton ; Hawker ; Quorn. 

 Appendages of the perianth always bifid, often all bisected to 

 the base, so that there are ten distinct, obtuse, cuneate 

 appendages ; stems ascending or erect. 



Bassia echinopsila, F. v. M. Bentham describes this 

 plant as "glabrous and somewhat glaucous, or very rarely the 

 young shoots slightly pubescent." Mueller, in his original 

 description (Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict., ii., 76), also calls it 

 "glabrous." All my specimens are hairy, on the adult, as 

 well as the young parts. Those from Oodnadatta (Miss 

 Staer), Glen Ferdinand (S. A. White), and one from Mount 

 Goyder, in the Tate Herbarium, have villous leaves and 

 tomentose branches, although the hairs on the branches wear 

 off with age. Tn the more southerly specimens — Minnipa 

 (Dist. L or W ; J. M. B. ; Murrayville and Ouyen. Victoria (H. 

 B. Williamson) — branches and leaves are beset with numerous 

 but scattered hairs. The fruiting calyx varies greatly in the 

 hairiness of its clothing. It is distinguished from that of 

 B. Birch it, F. v. M., by the summit much less hairy, two of 

 the five spines united near the base, and with a ridge marking 

 the line of union both on the summit and tube of the 

 perianth, also by its small size— 5-7 mm. diam., including 



