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3.A. NAT., 
VOL. XVIII.. No. 4. 
NOTES ON PLANTS FROM OOROOWILANIE 
STATION, 80 MILES NORTH OF MARREE, 
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
By Ernest H. Ising. 
That part of our State in the north-east known as the Birds- 
ville track experienced good rains in the early part of 1936, 
and reports were received of the wonderful growth of native 
plants from Marree over a wide area. I was fortunate in receiv- 
ing a small parcel of plants from Gordon Scobie of Orroowilanie 
Station, which is east of Lake Eyre and 80 miles north of Marree. 
The plants were collected in July 1936, and some of them prove 
very interesting. An article in the Transactions of the Royal 
Societ)^ of /S.A. \^ol. XLIX (1925) p.l03 by Prof. J. B. Cleland, 
Alessrs. J. \L Black and L. R Reese on the ‘TLORA OF THE 
NORTH EAST CORNER OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA NORTH 
OF COOPERS CREEK” gives a list of plants growing in this 
area and contains the names of 292 species Only 12 species were 
received from Ooroowilariie, but of these, two are not included 
in the above-mentioned article, although the Flora of S.A. (1924) 
p.223 records one of them {Glhius orygioides F.v.M.) from 
Coopers Creek, and the other {Lepidiuvi Muelleri~F ernandii 
Thell.) from the far north (l.c. 252). 
GRAMINEAE. 
Spinifex paradoxus (R. Br.) Benth. Canegrass. Three feet 
in height and grows in clay and s^nd. 
CYPERACEAE. 
Cyperus rigiddlus (Benth.) Black, Only 5 inches in height 
and grows in sandy soil. Recorded in the above-mentioned arti- 
cle (p.l09) as C. squarrosus L. 
AMARANTHACEAE. 
Amaranthiis grandiflorus J. M. Black. Grows in sand and 
only 18 inches in height. (No. 3,243, E.H.L). 
AIZOACEAE. 
Gliniis orygioides F.v.M. “Creeper” — prostrate plant found 
in sandy situations. 
CRUCIFERAE. 
Lepidmm Muelleri-F erdinandii Thell. Grows in sand and 
clay; flowering and fruiting while only 6 inches in height. 
