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J triplex spongiosum, F. v. M. Same place. [Growing 

 on the tablelands; distributed all over Central Australia.] 



A. vesicaria, Hew. Same place. [Plentiful on table- 

 lands ; good fodder.] 



Bassia paradoxa (R. Br.), F. v. M. Bookaloo. [A 

 common plant on the stony tablelands, but not so in the 

 sandy country.] B. diacantha (Benth.), F. v. M. Bookaloo. 



B. echinopsila, F. v. M. Ooldea. [Found growing on the 

 damp flats between the sand ridges : the burrs cause great dis- 

 comfort, attaching themselves to the clothing.] 



Amarantaceae. 



Trichinium incanum, R. Br., var. grandiflorum, Benth. 

 Ooldea. Perianth nearly 15 mm. long, the inner segments 

 appearing densely woolly owing to the long hairs arising from 

 the base and also from the margins ; bracts densely stellate- 

 woolly in the lower part ; bracteoles more or less woolly on 

 the midrib ; leaves oblong, stellate-tomentose. [Only found 

 on the stony tablelands.]. T. corymb osum, Gaud. Sixty 

 miles along East-West Railway. [Found growing on the stony 

 tablelands ; have met with this plant all through the 

 interior.] T. alopecuroid 'eum , F. v. M. Same place. [Grow- 

 ing on stony tablelands ; have seen it in like places throughout 

 Central Australia.] 



Alternantl i era denticulata, R. Br. Wynbring. [Found 

 growing in the damp mud of a rock hole.] 



PORTULACACEAE. 



*Calandrinia caulescens, H. B. K., var. Menziesii, Gray. 

 Karoonda ; flowering and fruiting, October 5, 1915 (J. M. B.). 

 Appeared well established, the stems procumbent on sandy 

 soil in or near the scrub. Determination confirmed by the 

 Director of the Kew Botanic Garden, who says that it "differs 

 from the type in having larger flowers on longer peduncles. 

 This variety is distributed from Western California to British 

 Columbia, and is very variable, passing gradually into the 

 typical form." Bentham (Fl. Aust., i., 175) records that 



C. caulescent ''has established itself in waste places about 

 Adelaide and other parts of South Australia." G. balon- 

 nensis, Lindl. Ooldea. ''Parakeelya." [This valuable fodder 

 plant was very beautiful about Ooldea, and enlivened the 

 landscape with a wealth of gloriously coloured blossoms.] 



Cruciferae. 

 *Lepidium Drain/, L. "Hoary Cress." Ooldea. [Plen- 

 tiful on the flats between the sandhills.] 



