fPROC. Rot. Soc. Victoria 35 (N.S.), Pt. I., 1922.] 



Art. VI. — Contributions from the National Herbarium of 



Victoria, No. ^. ^ 



By J. R. TOVEY and P. F. MORRIS. 

 (With Plate VI.) 



[Read 8th June, 1922.] 



Abistida Behriana, F.v.M. "Brush Spear Grass." (Gramineae). 



North Wangaratta, Mrs. A. M. C. Nason, November, 1920, and 

 September to November, 1921. 



An additional locality in Victoria for this native grass. It was 

 previously recorded from the north-western district of Victoria. It 

 is found also in New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia. 



Helipterum australa (A. Gray), Ostenf in Danske Videns Selsk. Biol, 

 Medd. III., 2, 142 (1921), (Dimorpholepis australis, A. Gray 

 (1852). (Helipterum dimorpholepis , Benth (1866), (Compositae), 



Under the laws of botanical nomenclature Gray's original specific 

 name has priority over that of Bentham's. Druce, in Heyward and 

 Druce Advent, Fl. Tweedside P., 103 (1919), proposes Helipterum 

 pygmaeum, Druce, (Triptilodiscus pygmaeus, Turcz (1851), for this 

 species, but we have already a H. pygmaeum^ Benth. (Pteropogon 

 pygmaeus, D.C. (1837). A. Gray's name must be used, and not Turc- 

 zaninow's. 



Helipterum roseum, Benth. var. patens (Ewart), Black (Compositae). 



In the Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., XLV., 21 (1921), under the above 

 heading, J. M. Black has placed H. Troedelii, F.v.M. var. patens^ Ewart,. 

 as a synonym. The reasons given evidently justify this course. 



The following localities were quoted, i.e., Ooldea, Miss D. Bates, 

 July, 1920, Mt. Lyndhurst, M. Kock, No. 1644 (1889) and Eraser 

 Range, W.A., R. Helms (1891). The latter two were also given in 

 the Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., XXII., 15 (1909), where the varietal name 

 was first published. The specimens from Mt. Lyndhurst were inserted 

 in the variety patens in error. As their stems and branches are beset 

 with appressed, lanuginous vestiture, as in H. Troedelii, whilst those 

 of the variety patens are glabrous, the inflorescence of the Mt. Lynd- 

 hurst specimens are similar to those of H. Troedelii^ and hence must 

 be transferred from the variety, H. roseum, var. patens, to H. Troe- 

 delii. Mr. Black had not seen Kock's specimens from Mt. Lyndhurst, 

 but only quoted from the Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. Specimens have since 

 been submitted to him, and he has confirmed our determination. 



1 No 1. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. vol. XXXI V., p. 207, 1922. 



