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Sclerantkus minusculus, F. v. M. Pinnaroo. This little 

 plant, although well protected by its pungent leaves and 

 calyx-lobes, appears to be rather rare. I only found one 

 specimen. It has previously been recorded from Murray 

 Bridge. 



S. pungens, R. Br. Moolooloo (Dist. S; E. H. Ising). 



*Moenchia erecta, Gaertn. Blackheath, near Harrogate 

 (H. W. Andrew). Already recorded from the South-East. 



* Lychnis alba, Mill. (L. vespertina, Sibth.). "White 

 Campion." Headlands of experimental plots at Cromolite, 

 on the South Australian portion of the railway from Mount 

 Gambier to Portland. Recorded as a weed for Victoria, but 

 not previously observed in this State. 



* Silene venosa (Gilib.), Aschers. "Bladder Campion." 

 North Park Lands ; fields near Enfield, as well as in the hills. 

 The principal synonyms of this species are : — 



Cucubalus Behen, L. Sp. pi. 414 (1753). 



C. latifolius, Mill. Gard. Diet., ed. 8, n. 2 (1768). 



C. venosus, Gilibert. Fl. lituan., ii., 165 (circa 1782). 



Behen vulgaris, Moench. Meth. 709 (1794). 



Cucubalus in flatus t Salisb. Prodr. 302 (1796). 



Silene Cucubalus, Wib. Prim. fl. werth. 241 (1799). 



S. inflata, Sm. Fl. brit, ii. 467 (1800). 



S. Behen, Wirzen. Enum. pi. offic. Fenn. 36. 



S. venosa, Aschers. Fl. Brandenb. i. 86 (864). 



S. vulgaris, Garcke. Fl. Deutschl., ed. 9, 64 (1869). 



S. lati folia, Britten et Rendle. List Brit, seedpl. 5 

 (1907). 



It is clear that when this species is transferred from 

 Cucubalus to Silene the correct combination would be S. 

 Behen, were it not that this name had been already adopted 

 for another species by Linnaeus (Sp. pi. 418). Neither is 

 S. lati folia, Britten et Rendle, admissible, because a distinct 

 North African species had already received this name from 

 Poiret (Voy. Barb., ii., 165). Therefore Ascherson's combin- 

 ation appears to be the correct one. 



Ranunculaceae . 



* Ranunculus trachycarpus, Fisch. et Mey. Common in 

 water at Murray Bridge. This species seems scarcely to differ 

 from R. sardous, Crantz, except in the somewhat straighter 

 and thicker beak of the carpel, and it should perhaps be 

 treated, as Fiori does in his Flora analitica d' Italia, as a 

 variety of that species. The beaks in some of our specimens 

 are often slightly curved. 



