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South Australia" (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., vi., 113) S. 

 an fit rails, A. Rich., is located "near the Glenelg River, 

 F. v. M." Then in his Flora of Extra-tropical South Aus- 

 tralia S. dryadeus is quoted for the Mount Gambier District. 

 It is well known that Mueller was in the habit, when a plant 

 was found within 10 miles or so of the boundary of one State, 

 of transferring it to the flora of the adjoining State, on the 

 assumption that it would be found growing there also. 

 There is no mention of the plant either in Tate's own "list 

 of unrecorded plants in the south-east part of this colony" 

 (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., vi., 95-99, ann. 1883) or in 

 Eckert's list of plants growing in South Australia between 

 the Glenelg River and MacDonnell Bay (Proc. Aust. Ass. 

 Adv. Sc, v., 410, ann. 1893). There is no specimen in the 

 Tate Herbarium, nor have I seen one from any part of our 

 State. Until a specimen is actually found it would therefore 

 be safer to delete the species from the South Australian flora. 



Podolepis capillaris, (Steetz) Diels. Tarcoola (J. M. B.). 

 Flowers pure white, the inner ones with 2 of the corolla 

 lobes more deeply cut than the other 3 ; the 5 arranged 

 digitately on one side of the staminal tube. 



P. acuminata, R. Br. Gladstone (Dist. N; J. M. B.); 

 Pinnaroo (Dist. M; from local public school). 



Waitzia acuminata, Steetz. (W. corymbosa, Benth., 

 non Wendl.) This handsome golden everlasting is common 

 near Tarcoola and Ooldea. The laminae of all the involucral 

 bracts are reflexed when the head is in full flower, with 

 the exception of those of the innermost bracts, which are 

 very short and uncoloured. Diels and Pritzel point out 

 (Fragm. phyt. Aust. occid. 625, ann. 1904) that F. v. Mueller 

 stated in the Zeitschrift des allgemeinen osterreichischen 

 Apotheker-Vereins, vol. 50, p. 934 (1896), after examining 

 Wendland's type in the Steetz Herbarium, that W. corymbosa, 

 Wendl., is really the plant described by Bentham as W . nivea 

 and is quite distinct from W. acuminata, Steetz, with which 

 Bentham had confused it. Mueller thus confirms the correct- 

 ness of Steetz's arrangement in the Plantae Preissianae. 

 Maiden and Betche make the correction in their Census of 

 New South Wales plants, but attribute the discovery to 

 J. G. Luehmann. 



* Aster subulatus, Michx. Recorded on insufficient 

 material as Erigeron canadensis, L., in these Trans., xxxv., 2 

 (1910), xliii., 354 (1919). When fuller material was obtained 

 it became evident that this identification was incorrect and 

 specimens were sent to Kew with the result mentioned above. 

 A North American plant with habitat from New Hampshire 

 to Florida. It seems to have established itself in South 



