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base, the leaves very narrow, the lower ones 7-8 cm. long, 

 with about 3 lanceolate lobes at the summit, or pinnatisect 

 with a few linear or lanceolate segments, as well as the 

 terminal lobes, the upper leaves entire or with 2 narrow 

 lobes near the base; ray pale lilac. Prof. Ewart informs 

 me that our plant agrees with specimens of B. calocarpa 

 collected near the Murray River by Dallachy, as mentioned 

 in the Fl. Aust. 



Humea pholidota (F. v. M.), combin. nov. (Ozothamnus 

 pholidotus vel Cassinia pholidota, F. v. M., Fragm. ii., 131 

 (1861); Helichrysum pholidotvm, F. v. M., ex Benth., Fl. 

 Aust. iii., 634 (1866); H. squamata, F. v. M., Fragm. xi., 

 86 (1880). ■ Near Loxton (S. A. White) ; Karoonda; Lameroo; 

 Pinnaroo. An erect shrub about 1 m. high. 



Microseris scapigera, (Forst.) Sch. Bip. (M. Forsteri, 

 Hook. f.). Lameroo. Leaves very narrow with linear- 

 lanceolate lobes about 12 mm. long. Owienagin Gap and 

 Ferguson Gorge (Dist. S; E. H. Ising). 



Millotia Kempei, F. v. M. in Wing's South. Sci. Rec. 

 ii., 2 (1882); var. Helmsii, F. v. M. et Tate in Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. S. Austr., xvi., 368 (1896). The description of this 

 species and a comparison with specimens in the Tate 

 Herbarium show that it is the same as Toxanthus Whitei, 

 J. M. Black in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., xxxix., 840, 

 t. 69 (1915). This plant stands about half-way between 

 Millotia and Toxanthus. It has the more numerous invo- 

 lucral bracts, the more numerous and larger flowers of 

 Millotia, but it has the absence of pappus and the achenes 

 obtruncate and slightly swollen at the base, which are char- 

 acteristic of Toxanthus. In the endeavour to find a deter- 

 mining factor, I examined carefully the style-branches of 

 M. Kempei, and found that they terminated, above the 

 stigmatic streaks, in the short swollen cones of Millotia, 

 rather than in the lanceolate papillose tips of Toxanthus. 

 Baron v. Mueller's classification therefore appears to be the 

 preferable one. In addition to Helms' specimens from near 

 the Birksgate Range, the Tate Herbarium contains others 

 from Ooldea and the Great Victoria Desert, W.A. 



Erecfathites prenanthoides, DC. (plate viii.). This plant 

 grew in my garden at North Adelaide from seed which must 

 have been buried in the soil of other plants brought from 

 Mount Gambier. It lasted about one year. The female 

 flowers numbered 10-12, the bisexual ones 5-8. 



Cassinia laevis, R. Br. Between Coonalpyn and Cold- 

 and-Wet (Dist. T; H. W. Andrew). Young leaves wrinkled 

 above, but glabrous; flowers in head 4-5. 



