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12-15 mm. in diameter, and the perianths, instead of the 

 usual spine at the base of each, or some of the lobes, have 

 a short blunt horn, while the leaves are 15-25 mm. long and 

 5-7 mm. broad. As the seeds are ripe and yet no spines are 

 apparent, this should perhaps be classed as a new variety, 

 but then we sometimes find spineless perianths in the normal 

 form, so that it is advisable to await the results of further 

 research. Mueller (Frag., vii., 11) mentions that the leaves 

 of B. paradoxa sometimes attain a breadth of 6 mm. [Very 

 plentiful over most of the country, and camels seem to be the 

 only animals who will eat it, at least when the spiny fruiting- 

 heads are formed.] H. biflora (R. Br.), F. v. M. Murteree. 

 The form in which the flower-heads contain 3-4 perianths. 

 [A good deal of this plant was met with near to Strzelecki 

 Creek, growing mostly on low sandy country.] B. lanicuspis, 

 F. v. M. Lake Perigundi. This is the form with 3-5 spines 

 to each fruiting perianth, as figured on pi. lxxx. of Mueller '.-. 

 "Salsolaeeous Plants," but not described anywhere, as far as 



1 know. The long hairs of the perianth and spines are some- 

 times fulvous, as in specimens from Tarcoola and Farina, or 

 white, as in those from Lake Perigundi ; perianth-lobes erect, 



2 mm. long ; seed obliquely placed, gibbous at summit, owing 

 to the ascending radicle. B. sclerolaenoides, F. v. M. Mount 

 Hopeless. 



Salsola Kali, L. Tinga-tingana ; Strzelecki Creek. 

 [Growing in great masses on sandhills ; young plants are deep 

 green, and as they dry off go brown, become detached from 

 the sand, and blow away, rolling for miles.] 



Kochia aphylla, R. Br. Mount Hopeless. K. coronate, 

 J. M. Black. Murteree; Strzelecki Creek. [Found mostly 

 on the tablelands.] K. plani folia, F. v. M. Mount Lynd- 

 hurst ; Mount Hopeless; also Mount Gunson (Mrs. BeekwitlO ; 

 between Moorilyanna Native Well and Everard Range (S. A. 

 White) ; Fowler Bay (Tate Herbarium). First record for 

 South Australia, although Mr. F. Turner noted it for the 

 Barrier Ranges, New South Wales, and figured it in his 

 "Forage Plants of Australia" (1891). It has probably been 

 confused in the past with K. sedifolia, F. v. M. ("Bluebush"), 

 from which it differs in its flatter and shortly-stalked leaves. 

 All my specimens have a stellate t omen turn on the lobes and 

 tube of the perianth, and if this is constant, it should form 

 another means of distinguishing this species from K . sedifolia 

 and villosa, [Most abundant on tablelands.] 



Ghenopodium auricomum, Lindl. Caraweena. Stem- 

 leaves mostly hastate and very obtuse. [Growing in the dry 

 bed of the Strzelecki Creek near a soakage well to the height 

 of 4 feet.] Ch. nitrariaceum, F. v. M. Cuttapirie Corner. 



