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Helichrysum apiculatum. D.C. Prodr. vi., 195 ; Gascoyne River, J. Forrest. 
Millotia tenuifolia. Cass, in Ann. des Sc. Nat. xvii., 416 ; near Freycinet Harbor, 
F. v. M. 
Myriocephalus Guerinae. F. v. M., Fragm. viii., 169 ; Menilyalya, J. Forrest ; Gascoyne 
River, Polak and J. Forrest. All the specimens seen are flowering from a thin 
slender and therefore perhaps always annual root ; they are varying in height from 
6 inches to 1 foot ; radical leaves lanceolar or broadly linear, gradually narrowed 
into a petiole, attaining a length of two inches. 
Angianthus Milnei. Benth. FI. Austr. iii., 564 ; Dirk Hartog Island, Milne. 
Angianthus Cunninghami. Benth. FI. Austr. iii., 565 ; Sharks Bay and Dirk Hartog 
Island, Cunningham, Milne. 
Gnephosis skirrophora. Benth. FI. Austr. iii., 570 ; Dirk Hartog Island, Milne. 
Gnephosis tenuissima. Cass, in Bull. Soc. Philom., 43 ; near Sharks Bay, Gaudichaud ; 
Dirk Hartog Island, Cunningham. 
Calocephalus Brownii. F. v. M., Rep. Babb. Exped., 13 ; Sharks Bay, Captain 
Denham. 
Cephalipterum Dmmmondi. A. Gray in Hook. Kew Misc. iv., 272 ; Freycinet Harbor, 
F. v. M. ; Gascoyne River, J. Forrest. 
Gnaphalodes condensatum. A. Gray in Hook. Kew Misc. iv., 228 ; near Freycinet 
Harbor, F. v. M. The inner bracts are closing over the fruits, and on being bent 
mechanically outwards eject the same by the elastic force of the pappus. 
Flaveria Australasica. Hook, in Mitch. Trop. Austr., 118; Gascoyne River, J. Forrest 
^n d Polak. 
Centipeda Cunninghami, F. v. M., Fragm. viii., 148 ; Gascoyne River, Polak. 
Senecio Gregorii. F. v. M., Report on Babbage’s Plants, 14 ; Gascoyne River, J . 
Forrest and Polak. Attains a height of fully H-feet. Small specimens occur 
one-lieaded. Flowerheads sometimes much diminished in size. Involucre occa- 
sionally much slenderer. Ligules very variable in width, reduced not rarely 
to five. 
Senecio lautus. Soland. in G. Forst. Prodr. 91 ; Gascoyne River, J. Forrest and 
Polak ; Freycinet Harbor, F. v. M. The early occurrence of Sonchus at Sharks 
Bay was already noted by Gaudichaud. It may have spread since the visit of 
Baudin. Some other English or foreign plants have established themselves at 
Sharks Bay, among them Madia sativa. 
Campanulaceae. 
Lobelia heterophylla. Labill. Nov. Holl. PI. Spec, i., 52, t. 74; Menilyalya and 
Gascoyne River, J. Forrest. 
Wahlenbergia gracilis. A. Carnl. Mon. Camp., 142; Gascoyne River, J. Forrest and 
Polak. 
Goodeniaceae. 
Brunonia australis. Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x., 367, t. 28; Gascoyne River, J. For- 
rest and Polak. 
Dampiera incana. R. Br., Prodr., 588 ; Sharks Bay and Dirk Hartog Island, Les- 
chenault, Gaudichaud, Cunningham ; Freycinet Harbor, F. v. M. Professor 
Lawson quotes for this plant the “ Leucojum maritimum Novo-Hollandicum folio 
parvo incano, flore amplo caeruleo ” illustrated in Plukenet’s Amaltheum, append, 
t. 452, f. 4, and in Dampier’s voyage t. 3, f. 2. 
Leschenaultia linarioides. D.C. Prodr. vii., 519; Sharks Bay, Gaudichaud ; Dirk 
Hartog Island, Milne. 
Scaevola spinescens. R. Br., Prodr., 586 ; Freycinet Harbor, F. v. M. ; Gascoyne River, 
Polak; Menilyalya, J. Forrest. The very succulent fruit turns blackish when 
ripe. 
