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a very short common rhachis. The pods and seeds bear con- 

 siderable resemblance to those of .-1. rigens, A. Cunn. The 

 calyx, which is half the length of the petals, has rather thick 

 lobes, and after flowering it often becomes hardened and 

 persistant at the base of the pod. Captain S. A. White was 

 informed that the seeds form part of the food of the mallee 

 hen (Leipoa ocellata). A. Bynoeana has been previously 

 figured in Mueller's Iconography of Australian Acacias, 

 decade 3, t. 1. 



Swainsona phaci folia, F. v. M. Carrieton and Orroroo : 

 standard -brick-red with yellow base; stipules broad, 

 acuminate, often with 1 or 2 teeth ; leaflets broadly cuneate, 

 truncate-apiculate or almost 3-toothed at apex. Hawker: 

 standard orange, striped with red, yellow at base, keel red ; 

 stipules similar, but leaflets longer, oblong-cuneate, obtuse 

 or notched, the terminal one the longest (nearly 2 cm.). 

 Hundred of Booyoolie : standard orange, wings and keel 

 scarlet ; stipules smaller ; leaflets linear-cuneate, obtuse or 3- 

 toothed at apex. The specimens from Hawker and Booyoolie 

 have a small, semicircular callus at the top of the claw, but 

 I think the specific significance of calli on the standard of 

 Swainsona has been exaggerated. All the specimens have 

 the teeth of the calyx shorter than its tube, the wings ciliate 

 on the middle of the upper margin, and the style somewhat 

 twisted to one side. 



* Astragalus hamosus, L. This Mediterranean plant 

 appeared to be fairly numerous on the plain near Hawker. 

 First record for South Australia. 



*Tri folium cernuum , Brot. Mount Gambier (A. Kiesel- 

 bach). This Mediterranean clover has not previously been 

 noticed in our State, although it was found in Western Aus- 

 tralia some years ago. 



RUTACEAE. 



Microcybe jxiuciftora, Turcz. As Mueller remarks, in 

 Fragm., ix., 107, this is a very variable species. Specimens 

 from Port Lincoln, Yeelanna, and Tooligie have spreading 

 linear leaves, bright-yellow flower-heads 7-8 mm. in diameter, 

 glabrous petals, and filaments densely villous in the lower 

 half. Specimens from the West Coast of South Australia 

 (exact locality not given) and from Murrayville, Victoria 

 (H. B. Williamson), have shorter, erect, obcuneate leaves, 

 rather cordate at base, smaller heads, petals drying brown 

 and perhaps white when fresh, ciliate with l6ng intricate 

 hairs on the lower margins, and glabrous filaments. This 

 may be var. baccharoides, F. v. M., but I am inclined to 

 think it should be treated as another species. Diels and 

 Pritzel, speaking of Western Australia, say the flowers of 



