Vol. X., No. 10. 
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
207 
MELBOURNE-POST OFFICE CIIAIMBEUS, 201 ETJZAEETH HT. 
SYDNEY-93 YORK STREET. 
And 42 Cannon-street, London, E.C., England. 
A Strictly Intercolonial Journal, 
Published on the 1st of each Month in direct association 
with 
“THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST” 
(FMahlished in Londo'n^ 1859J. 
Botanical Discoveries.— On this page we print de- 
scriptions of two interesting plants new to science, and 
recently described by Baron F. Von Mueller. One of them, 
it will be noted, is from the neighbourhood of Coolgardie, 
and both are illustrations of the assistance that can be given 
by residents in any little-explored country, to the progress 
of science. Baron Von Mueller especially asks us to say 
that as so many young pharmacists are gradually settling 
in new places of the interior, they should endeavour, true to 
the objects of their profession, to aid in the elucidation of 
the vegetation surrounding them. They can do this by 
sending to the Baron material in the form of pressed and 
dried specimens of plants, among which there would pro- 
bably still be novelties, particularly among minute land 
plants, and various water weeds. Each finder of rare or 
new plants gets credit for his discoveries in Baron Von 
Mueller’s publications. We have repeatedly urged chemists 
to take up work of this kind, as it adds very much to the 
pleasure of their lives, besides giving them opportunities of 
being really useful to the world. 
CHEMISTS IN MELBOURNE IN 1856. 
We have had placed in our hands a copy of the Melbourne 
Directory for the year 1856. From the preface we would 
gather that this volume had had one predecessor. It fills 
172 pages, is well printed, apparently by the predecessors 
of the firm that still issues the Melbourne Directory, and is 
divided into the sections that are still current. This early 
issue refers only to Melbourne proper, and does not deal 
with the suburbs. The Chemists and Druggists numbered 
27, and there were also four wholesale druggists, one of 
whom was mentioned under both headings. The names 
and addresses would doubtless suggest many old memories, 
so we reprint them here, and would be glad if any who re- 
member old times would write to us or drop in for a chat. 
Chemists ani> Duugcjists. 
Atkin.son, F. 0., 1H7 Stephen-.strcet. 
Hlaokott, R. A' '1'., 27 I^omdale-st. W. 
Blair, J. W., 237 Elizabeth-street. 
(;oop(>r, E. it-, .51 (Iui*en-strept. 
Cooper, F., & Co., 42 ColliDs-st. W. 
Croad, 8. -i. '1'., 31 Bonrke-street E. 
Denham, AV. J., H7 Little Bourke- 
street E. 
Dennis, A. .f., 228 Lon.sdale-.st. E. 
Urewery, Thos.. 129 Swanston-st. 
Dimstone. O. T.. 59 Eourke-st, E. 
Fell, Geddes & AValton, (i3 (kdlins- 
street E. 
Ford, AVm , 97 8wanst/)n-street. 
Glover, Robt., 59 Collins-street TV. 
Hall, }£., 113 Boiirke-sti-eet E. 
Wholesale 
Ben.son Brothers. 124 Russell-street. 
Fell, Geddes & AValton, 63 Collins- 
street E. 
Hamilton, .T., 193 Little Bonrke- 
street E. 
]farri(l«-e, C. AV., .57 AVilliam-street. 
Holdsworth & Wright, 73 Elizaheth- 
street. 
Hood, J., 110 (iueen-street. 
Hughes, J., & Co., 145 Elizabeth-st. 
Lewis & Bowen, .5 Collin.s-street E. 
Long, D. H., & Son. 183 Bonrke- 
street E. 
Alay, G., .3f>3 Elizabetb-street. 
O’C’onnor, N., lOO Elizabetli-street. 
Russell, 173 Elizabeth-street. 
AVilson, G., 43 Collins-street AV. 
AVollaston. E., 130 Rus.sell-street. 
AVragge, G., 134 Collins-street E. 
DmuinisT.s. 
Keogh, E. & M., 29 Lonsdale-st. E. 
I A'oungman, McCann 6c Co., 125 
Russell-street. 
3n«>£i to ICiterary ®ont£nts. 
PAGE 
Botanical Discoveries ... 207 
Chemists in Melbourne in 1859 207 
Editorial Notes— 
The Dental Board of Viet. 208 
The A’ictorian Benevolent 
Fnml 
... 209 
The Carboy Case ... 
... 209 
Trade Notes 
... 210 
Trade Mark.s applied for 
... 211 
New South AYales 
... 212 
AVm. Townley Pinhey 
... 219 
New Zealand 
PAGE 
... 217 
Gueonsland 
... 220 
Are Carboys Distinctive 
of 
a Chemist’s Shop 1 
... 223 
AVestern Australia 
... 224 
)South Australia 
... 225 
Tasmania 
... 227 
Victoria 
... 228 
Dental Matters 
... 229 
CoiTespondenco 
... 229 
DESCRIPTION OF HITHERTO UNKNOWN PLANTS 
FROM NORTH-WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 
By Baron Von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. and Ph. D., 
LL.D. F.R.S. 
Trianthema Gmsackiana. 
Nearly glabrous ; branchlets compressed ; leaves exactly 
linear, somewhat succulent, slightly channelled; flowers 
comparatively large, two or few together in each axil, on 
short pedicles or almost sessile ; lobes of the calyx distinct- 
ly longer than the tube, narrowly semilanceolar and ad- 
ditionally pointed ; stamens, usually ten, about as long as 
the calyx; lower part of the filaments adnate ; anthers and 
inner side of calyx-lobes almost violet ; style one, conspicu- 
ous; ovulary one-celled ; ovules few; fruit roundish-blunt, 
somewhat longer than broad. 
In the vicinity of the Harding River; W. H. Cussack. 
A probably prostrate plant ; leaves attaining a length of 1^ 
inches, but hardly ever more than one-tenth of an inch 
broad, at the petiolar base membranously dilated and 
anteriorly bidenticulated, at the upper end hardly acute, 
but minutely mucronulate ; calyx measuring about J inch 
in length ; fruit evidently of thin texture, towards its base 
transversely dehiscent, but not obtained in a ripe state. 
This species is clearly allied to T. oxycalyptra, but the 
extreme narrowness of the leaves give it at once a different 
aspect. The ripe fruits of both yet need comparison. The 
foliage offers some approach to T. crystallina, a plant 
otherwise, especially in floral structure and carpologic 
characteristics, widely different. 
Statice Maephersoni. 
Spikes elongated, rather straight ; rachis imperfectly 
beset with very short hairlets ; flowers small, crowded, 
turned variously; tube of the calyx hardly as long as the 
lobes, bearing outside spreading hairlets, prominently five- 
streaked ; lobes transparent, their lower part almost 
doltoid, thence gradually and conspicuously setaceous- 
capillulary ; corolla glabrous, about as long as the calyx, 
its lobes rather longer than the tube, semielliptic, upwards 
somewhat lilac-coloured, but soon pallescent; anthers 
about thrice longer than broad, their cells towards the 
base secedent ; styles capillulary, longitudinally stigmatose; 
ovulary nearly conical-ellipsoid, glabrous. Towards Cool- 
gardie; Wm. A. Macpherson, Esq. 
This species is descriptively established from a flower- 
spike solely — an unusual procedure— -but admissible in the 
present instance, when the general position of the plant can 
be clearly made out, and when the floral characteristics 
show great specific diversity from those of the two only 
other congeners hitherto known as indigenous to Australia, 
thus the calyx-lobes reminding of those of a calycothrix. 
Select Extra Tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for 
Industrial Culture or Naturalisation, by Baron F. Von 
Mueller, 9th edition, revised and enlarged ; Melbourne, 
Government Printer, 1895. This book is so well known and 
its value is so thoroughly proved by the fact that a ninth 
edition is called for, that it seems hardly possible to write 
anything that will add to its reputation. It is 140 pages 
larger than the edition of 1888, and a comparison of separate 
paragraphs shows that the revision has been very thorough, 
and has extended throughout the book. We trust that the 
writer will live long to bring out many more improved 
editions. 
