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Eryt.hreea Australis — R. Brown. 

 Hab. Sandy soil near St. Kilda. 

 Fl. December. 

 Valuable for its bitterness. 



Mitrasacme paradoxa — R. Brown. 



Hab. Grassy situations at Richmond and Brighton. 

 FL September, October. 



A very small, elegant, little plant, often not more than an inch in height, and 

 its stems smaller than the finest hair. 



SOLANACEiE, JUSSIEU. 



Solanum nigrum — Linne. 



Hab. "Waste places about Warrnambool and Melbourne. 

 FL January to March. 

 11 Common nightshade." 



Solanum laciniatum — R. Brown. 



Hab. Common everywhere. 



FL January to March. 



"Kangaroo apple." The radical leaves are generally slashed, hence its spe- 

 cific name; but we have observed many plants with the leaves quite 

 entire. 



Solanum Hystrix — R. Brown. 

 Hab. 

 FL 



The whole of this plant covered with spines; very elegant. 



Nicotiana suaveolens — Lehmann. 



Hab. On the high Yarra ranges near the Lunatic Asylum. 



FL November. 



This very beautiful tobacco was at one time common in the above situations, 

 but on our last visit we found that sheep had sadly cropped it. The 

 flowers are white, stem herbaceous, nearly simple ; leaves subpetiolate, or 

 lanceolate, undulated. Tube of corolla cylindrical, much longer than the 

 calyx, segments of limb rather unequal, roundish, obtuse. Stem villous 

 at the base, smoother at top. Leaves with a few scattered soft hairs on 

 veins and midrib ; radical ones sub-spathulate, bluntish, rosulate. Calyx 

 deeply five-cleft; segments acute, unequal. 



