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Amarantace.e. — *Amarantus patulus, Bert. A weed in 

 ■cultivated land, Blackwood; Mount Gambier.— Mediter- 

 ranean region. 



Polygonacejs. — *Rumex obtusifolius, L. (Broad-leaved 

 Dock.) East Parklands, Adelaide. — Europe. Polygonum 

 ■lanigerum, R.Br. Reedbeds (H. H. D. Griffith).— Eastern 

 Australia; tropical Asia. 



Conifers. — Note on localities for some species of 

 •Callitris. — C. propinqua, R.Br. Gawler; Franklin Harbour; 

 Mount Brown Forest Reserve (Maiden, For. FL, N.S.W., 

 xii., 54); Hog Bay, K.I. ; Murray Bridge; Port Lincoln 

 (Maiden, Trans. Roy. Soc, xxxii., 255-71); ranges near 

 Adelaide ; East Wellington ; ranges near Cleve, Eyre's Penin- 

 sula (J. W. Mellor) ; Pinnaroo (J. Sincock). C. robusta, 

 R.Br. Mount Brown Forest Reserve and Far North (Maiden, 

 For. FL, N.S.W., xii., 46); Pinnaroo (J. Sincock); Strath- 

 albyn. I cannot help feeling some doubt as to whether it will 

 be possible to keep (7. robusta and C. propinqua permanently 

 separated as distinct species, at least in this State. C '. cupressi- 

 formis, Vent. Adelaide District; Kangaroo Island (Tate); 

 Hog Bay, K.I. (Maiden, Trans. Roy. Soc, xxxii., 255); 

 Arno Bay (J. W. Mellor), "small tree or almost shrub." 

 C . cupressiformis, Vent., var. mucronata, Benth. Cape 

 Borda, K.I. (J. W. Mellor); Slape's Gully, Mount Lofty 

 Ranges (H. H. D. Griffith). 



Gramine^e. — *Polypogon maritimus, Willd. Robe. — 

 Mediterranean region. *Brom-us rigidus, Roth. Coast near 

 Adelaide. — Europe . 



Note. — Recent investigations, instituted at first by Mr. 

 J. II. Maiden, Government Botanist of New South Wales, go 

 to prove that the introduced Brome, so common throughout 

 temperate Australia, is not Bromus sterilis, L., as has been 

 supposed ever since Bentham's identification of it in the Flora 

 Australiensis. It now appears that this determination was 

 erroneous and that the grass is really B. maximus, L. South 

 Australian specimens of supposed B. sterilis were sent to Kew 

 Botanic Gardens and to the Museum d'histoire naturelle, 

 Paris, with the result that they, like the New South Whales 

 specimens sent by Mr. Maiden to Kew, were pronounced to 

 he B. maximus. 



