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dark-purple when ripe. B. arenarius, Labill. The descrip- 

 tion in Fl. Aust., vii., 661, should read: — ''Spikelets 15-30 

 mm. long, 5-14-flowered : the lowest glume 3-nerved, the 

 second 5-7-nerved." 



* Agrostis verticillata, Vill. Creek near the brewery, 

 Melrose. A. quadriseta,J&. Br. Cummins (Dist. L.). 



*Festuca Myuros, L. Minnipa; Moolooloo. *F* 

 bromoides, Smith. Minnipa; Pungonda. 



*Trisetum pumilum, Kunth. Moolooloo. 



* Lolium temulentum, L. ''Darnel." Cummins. *-L. 

 rigidum, Gaud. Gladstone. 



* Avena orientalis, Schreb. The species of cultivated 

 Oat, which seems to be usually sown in South Australia, is. 

 growing wild on the sandy soil of Thevenard Peninsula. *A. 

 barbata, Brot. , the slender Wild Oat, seems to avoid culti- 

 vated land and is found in such places as the Adelaide Park: 

 Lands, roadsides, creeks, gullies, railway reserves, and 

 generally in waste places, at least as far north as Melrose,. 

 whereas *A. fatua, L., the common Wild Oat, is almost 

 always found in cultivated soil. 



* Koeleria phleoides, Pers. With typical tuberculate 

 flowering glumes; Tooligie ; Melrose. 



* Lamar chia aurea, Moench. A Mediterranean grass 

 common at Renmark and at Woolshed Flat, near Quorn 

 (Miss J. Mills). Recorded by Mueller in 1864 as growing at 

 Swan Hill, on the Murray, but not previously noted for 

 South Australia. 



Triodia lanata, sp. nova (tab. v.). Gram-en caespi- 

 tosum, caulibus geniculato-ascendentibus 30-50 cm. longis,. 

 foliorum laminis rigidis subulato-pungentibus patentibus 

 intus basin versus lanatis 5-12 cm. longis, vaginis extus- 

 lanatis demum glabrescentibus , ligida e pilis longis constant e y 

 ■panicidd sublaxd, spiculis 5-7-floris, glumis omnibus sericeo- 

 villosis, vacuis 10 mm,, longis 3-nerviis acutis, glum a floriferd 

 7-8 mm. longd truncatd subtiliter 9-nervid, nervis ternatim 

 ordinalis mediano denies laterales sub ae quant e. In the scrub 

 at Minnipa. Chiefly distinguished from T. irritans and 

 T. aristata by the short bent stem, the shorter and woolly- 

 leaves, and the silky outer glumes. A "Porcupine Grass." 



Poa nodosa, Nees. Thevenard Peninsula. Locally- 

 called ''Shaking grass," from its likeness to *Briza minor, L. 

 I found the grain adhering to the palea in all the flowers 

 examined, so that this species should be placed in the same 

 section as P. Billardieri and P. homomalla . 



Stipa elegantissima, Labill. Melrose (Dist. N). 



Antkistiria imberbis, Retz. Observ. bot., v., 22 (1789). 

 ''Common Kangaroo Grass," All the leading authorities are- 



