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BORAGINACEAE. 



Heliotr opium europaeum, L. Ooldea (Dist. W). 



Halgania cyanea, Lindl. Ooldea. A very rough form, 

 with rigid, erect hairs and shorter glandular ones ; leaves only 

 5-10 mm. long, scarcely narrowed at base, with 3 terminal 

 teeth and about 8 lateral, midrib prominent beneath ; flowers 

 small. [This beautiful little plant was met with all through 

 the sandhills; gracefully rounded bushes, 18 inches tall, and 

 covered in rich-blue flowers.] 



Verbenaceae. 



Dicrastylis Beveridgei, F. v. M. Ooldea, flowering, 

 January. Leaves exceeding the description, oblanceolate, 

 10-30 mm. long by 3-5 mm. broad; flowers sessile in 

 distant clusters of 4-10, on a rhachis about 10 cm. long, some- 

 times branched at base. The flower apears to have been seen 

 by Mueller in bud only, and is therefore described here : — 

 Calyx globular in outline, 3 mm. long, villous outside with 

 long, branched, golden hairs, divided below the middle into 

 5 acute lobes; corolla 3J mm. long, bearded in the throat, 

 tomentose outside with white, stellate hairs, except towards 

 the membranous base and at the summit ; stamens included ; 

 ovary stellate-tomentose. [This was a most attractive plant 

 with its panicles of golden flowers ; the bushes attained the 

 height of 3 feet, and in some instances grew in masses very 

 closely together, forming a blaze of golden colour ; many 

 insects are attracted by the flowers. I have never met with 

 this golden species before.] 



* Verbena supina, L. Ooldea. 



Labiatae. 



Westringia Dampieri, R. Br. Ooldea. The short-leaved 

 form. [Often met with amongst the sandhills : 10 to 12 

 inches tall.] 



*Lamium. ample xicaule, L. Mount Gambier, August 

 1915 (W. T. Spafford)) ; Geranium Plains, near Eudunda, 

 August, 1917 (per A. G. Edquist). Europe and Asia; called 

 in England "Henbit." 



SOLANACEAE. 



Solanum coactiliferum, J. M. Black. Three hundred and 

 seventy-six miles along the East-West Railway. [Common in 

 sandhills, 2 feet tall ; in flower and fruit, May.] 



Anthocercis myosotidea, F. v. M. Port Lincoln (H. H. 

 D. Griffith); Warunda (W. Gill; Dist. L). 



