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numerous; the specimen from Burswood Island, W.A. has 
as many as 20, and in our South Australian coastal specimens 
e 
are quite different in the two species. In Nees' type specimen 
Preis, No. 1910) the seeds, although not quite ripe, show 
distinctly the characteristic markings of the testa. 
an explanation of what I believe is the confusion of 
two species in eg Salicornia tenuis see below under 
Pachycornia ten 
Var. pergranulatum, n. var. (Tab. xxxii.) A typo 
variat semine orbiculari-reniformi circiter 1 mm. diametro, 
testa brunneo-rubrá omnino subconcentrice granulata. 
Australia. Salt lands near the Grange and at 
ahead | (Port Adelaide River, J. M. B., Jan.-May, 1919) ; 
Noarlun nga (J. M. B., Jan., 1905) ; River Frome, near Marree 
J. M. eae 1917); dee Port Elliot and Victor 
aboar, (H. W Andrew, Feb., 1919); Mann Crossing, er 
Murray (H. W. And rew, Nov., 1915); Lake Hart (Dr. G. 
Taylor, May, 1919) ; Cootanoorinna (near Warrina, R. Helms 
in Tate Herbarium as Salicornia leiostachya, May, 1891). 
Queensland. Port Alma, C.Q. (L. Hassell, in Gand 
: : 17). 
ariety differs from the type in its seed, which is 
orbicular-reniform, reddish-brown and Rande all over. It 
is usually a lower shrub, more spreading, and 30-50 em. high. 
du the specimens from Frome River and Port Alma the 
sea of the pericarp in the perianth is oorr: arog ay 
e seed 
Silene, Calandrinia, aia Mesembryanthemum. 
2. A. Lylei, (Ewart et An combin. nov. (Tab. 
Xxxiv.) Haec species distat ab 4. Aalo cnemoidi pericarpio 
mamilliformi apice crustaceo horizontaliter prominente atque 
perianthio distincte et late trilobo herbaceo non spongioso.— 
Salicornia Lylei, Ewart et White in Jour. Roy. Soc., N.S. 
Wales, xlii., 195, to 34 (1908). 
ve ct species by reason of its ovoid pericarp, 
_ Which is har sian. except near the summit, where it 
" becomes crustaceous and is produced in a nipple-like point 
(the possint style) beyond the 3 broad lobes of the perianth ; 
