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•development. The head contains 3 0-13 flowers-, of which 1-3 

 ■are usually female, 4 -toothed, and without pappus ; rarely 

 all are bisexual. The involucral bracts vary from snow-white 

 (like those of Cassinia laevis) to straw-colour. II. adnatum, 

 with which Ozothamnus retusus was united by Bentham in 

 Fl. Aust., iii., 629 (he has not noticed 0. decurrens in that 

 work), appears to be a distinct species with short, rather 

 acute, erect leaves, adnate to the branch usually for the whole 

 of their length (see J. H. Maiden, Illust. N.S.W. Plants, 23, 

 pi. 8), but I have not seen any specimens from South Aus- 

 tralia. As regards priority of specific name, II. retuswm and 

 //. decurrens are both of the same date — F. v. M., Fragm., 

 viii., 46 (1873) — but the original descriptions are: — 

 'Ozothamnus retusus, Sond et Muell. in Linnaea, xxv., 510 

 (1852); 0. decurrens, F. Muell., in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict., 

 iii., 59 (1859). II. Jessenii, F. v. M. To the stations men- 

 tioned by Mueller in Vict. Nat., vii., 48, for this species — ■ 

 River Murray, Ga,wler, Lake Alexandrina, Burra, Wirrabara, 

 Port Augusta, Port Lincoln — may now be added: Halbury, 

 Gladstone, Napperby, Telowie, Melrose, Whyte-Yarcowie, 

 Meribah, Lake Gairdner, Gawler Ranges. For the closely- 

 allied species, //. hyalosperm um, F. v. M. : — Burnside, 

 Kapunda, Melrose, Tarcowie, Gawler Ranges. 



Galotis scapir/era, Hook. Port Adelaide River (Dist. A ; 

 H. H. D. Griffith). 



Olearia nulls, F. v. M. Karoonda. Extreme form of 

 var. glahriuscula , Benth. Almost without hairs or roughness, 

 but otherwise like the type. 



Tlumea squamata, F. v. M., was common at Karoonda, 

 but only budding in early October. 



Ldgenophora Billardieri, Cass. Campbell Creek., Mel- 

 rose (Dist. N). 



('rasped/ a globosa, Benth. This handsome and appar- 

 ently rare plant was found in bud on the banks of Campbell 

 Creek, Melrose, in the middle of October. 



Brachycome tesquorurn. sp. nova (tab. viii.). Herba 

 perennis tota glanduloso-hispidula basi lignea, catdibus erectis 

 ra/mosis, folds rigidulis oblanceolatis 2-3 cm. longis acute 

 paucideufatis trinerviis, nerns infra prominentibus, pedani- 

 culis elongatis sub corymb osis, involucri bracteis oblongis 

 margine late scariosis laceratis, ligulis forum marginalium 

 cojispicuis 1/lacin is, acheniis ohovatis compressis margine 

 incrassatis cxalatis pilis uncinates eonspersis utrinque bicos- 

 tatis, pappo nullo. Oodnadatta (Miss Staer) ; Glen Ferdi- 

 nand, Musgrave Ranges (S. A. White). Belongs to Section 



