EDITORIAL 



This issi'-e of the Vici&rian Naturalist \a a special one, being 

 devoted almost entirely to original contributions in the field of 

 systemarie botany. The papers concerned are published wilh a vi&W 

 to finali/.injtj .some of the necessary revision to the classification nf 

 groups Of Victorian vascular plants, so that the* new names provided 

 will be available for use hi forthcoming botanical work*. THs irtnU- 

 her is being subsidized by the Maud Gibson TttfSI Fnnrl, the t myites 

 of which are organizing rUe |>i q>;* ration of a r><>w k<*y to tins Victorian 

 flora. 



VASCULAR FLORA Of VICTORIA AMD SOUTH AUSTRALIA 



'Sundry N«w Specie*. Verier***, Cembi«oh©ni, Record* 

 and Sy/ionynrOes) 



By ). H. Wjixm, National Herbarium of l/fettftra 

 Gra mined? 



STIPA >JIVTCOLA J. H. JpMtz 



*pt*cies nova alpina dtsrinciissima pftrici ".Vm'nrft-" (sens. D. K_ 

 Htujbesae, 1921) inserenda. e>: -am nit ate .V. Int-bcscciUi? R,Br. et 

 4\ mTz/osur J. W Vickery sed al> utn.'i|ue praeeipuc diffcrt : statura 

 minore (cuhms cjuam 40 cm. Invvioribus), foliis rigidis teretibus 

 5ubpuv'j<-uilbus oninino glo^rii nitemibus, mfloresccmla vix exsefta 

 paacirlora (spieulis usque ail 16). arista robwtiorc minus birsuta (ad 

 partem inieram omniuo glabra), antheri; rrtiii(lti< 0*1 videntur, 1-1-S 

 mm- Ion-sis). 



LOCUS! i VICTORIA (boieah-mitiilalis)— • ifeigotlK HMi Plains, "associated 

 with Eticutvptuji niphafthiUt along grav;v slope.s of Middle Qvek near 

 Rover Seoul H«r, alt. circa 1050 in. {UOLO'l VFUS ill Herb. MEL. 

 PARATYP1 in NSW, K— /. W. M',7/i*, 2 Feb. 1949): lac. til (MF.L 

 — 7. /V. f^«% 10 Jan. 1940) . 



Glabrous tufted perennial. Leaf-hhiifs up to 20 cm. long, rigid, almost 

 pungent-pointed, tightly inroiled and terete, (except at lijtUlc), about 1.5 ftfto. 

 wide at base when flattened out, lower convex surface shining and without 

 groove;, upper (bidden) surface shallowly grooved, minutely scabrid AlShg 

 The incurving margins ; shcoths 3-4 mm. wide when flattened, often brown or 

 purplish, with up to 20 deep dorsal grooves, the apical auricles manifest!} 

 filiate and up to 1 nun. high; fitful? very short and truncate, forming a 

 minutely cilia tu rim. Cithns rigid, glabrous, grooved, up to 40 cm. high and 

 1-1.5 mm. in diameter; nodes 1 or 2, minutely pubescent. Panicle tardily 

 Sprfe&ffifltg, its kut scarcely or not exserted beyond the uppermost leat-shealb, 

 up to 15 cm- long (awns included), few-flowered (Jess than 10 splkelets in 

 all materials examined) ; branches and pedicels filiform, angular and very 

 minutely seabrid, the latter 10-20 mm. long widening beneath spikelot and 

 bearing a few forwaidly-aflpTc^ed hairs, Spikclcts narrow, elongated, mostly 

 erect. GIhm-zs almost equal, about 20 mm." long, hardly diverging, glabrotii, 

 tliio. chaffy, translucent and purplish, the shortly acuminate apices hyaline and 

 soon lorn; fir^l ^Jtime fmelv 3-ncrvcd almost to ijN&j second or upper glumo 

 slightly wider (about 2 mm. when flattened nut) . 5-nervcd below and 3-nerved 

 above, both glumes showing a few scattered, irregular, transverse connecting* 

 venules toward their apices Lcmnn narrow, cylindrical, 13-15 mm long and 



