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Neue Litteratur. 
Baillon, Les affinites des Verbenacees. (1. e. p. 874.) 
— —, Les fleurs de l’Anisacanthus virgularis Nees. (1. c. p. 875.) 
— —, Observations sur quelques nouveaux tynes du C'ongo. [Suite.] (I. c» 
p. 876.) 
— —, Sur un Lysinema monstreux. (1. c= p. 879.) 
— —, Sur un nouveaux Baillonia. (1. c. p. 880.) 
— —, Observations sur les Sapotacees de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. (1. c. p. 881, 
889.) 
Beck, Günther, Ritter yon Mannagetta, Flora von Südbosnien und der an¬ 
grenzenden Hercegovina. Thei! V. (Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorisehen Hof- 
Museums in Wien. Bd. Y. 1890. p. 549. Mit 1 Fig.) 
Fonilänek, Ed., Beitrag zur Flora von Serbien, Macedonien und Thessalien. 
[Forts.] (Deutsche botanische Monatsschrift. Bd. VIII. 1890. p. 161.) 
Ilackel, E., Descriptiones Graminum novorum. (Oesterr. botan. Zeitsclir. 1890. 
p. 5.) 
Halacsy, E. voll, Neue Brombeerformen aus Oesterreich. [Schluss.] (1. c. 
p. 12.) 
Holle, G. YOll, Einige neue Beobachtungen betreffs Hieracium praecox II basalticum 
C. H. Schultz Bip. (Deutsche botanische Monatsschrift. 1890. p. 185.) 
Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von, Supplemental notes to the List of plants, 
collected in Central Australia. (From the Transactions of the Royal Society 
of South Australia. 1890. October.) 
[Relipterurn Fitzgibboni F. v. M. 
West of Eringa and dose to Lady Charlotte Waters; also near the 
Finke River, Rev. H. Kempe; on Tempe Down», R. F. Thornton; near 
the Georgina River, Alfred Henry; on Nullarbor Plains, J. D. Batt; 
near Mount Moore, Edwin Merrall; at the eastern sources of Swan 
River, Miss Alice Eaton. 
From the Botanic Museum of Melbourne some years ago, under the 
above systematic name, this plant was distributed, which is dwarf, annual 
(or nt all events flowering from a first years root), and has broad, linear, 
bluntish leaves; peduncular elongations of branches are hardly developed. 
It dififers from H. incanum in being beset with short glandule-bearing 
hairlets, in headlets which never attain a large size, in more numerous 
and more acuminated involucral bracts, the outer of which are dark- or 
red-brown, ciliolated, and slightly silky, the inner upwards ahv&ys white, 
in none of the fruits being attenuated at the summit, and in usually fewer 
pappus-bristles. Sometimes the involucrating bacts n.re still more increased 
on expense of the development of flowers. Horticulturally, this plant is 
quite distinct from any of the forms of II. incanum ; nevertheless, it is as 
yet uncertaiu, whetlier it should be regarded as a permanently distinct 
species or merely as an extreme variety. 7'he broader-leaved form of 
TI. incanum , with the usual lanuginous vestiture, penetrates also quite as 
far as the Tropie of Capricorn into Central Australia, though it is as yet 
not known from any region of West Australia. In the higher of our Alps, 
and in many other tracts of country, H. incanum produces quite a thick 
perennial root-stock of considerable length. The whole plant exliales a 
pleasant, somewhat chamomile-like, odour. 
The specific name of this extremely pretty „everlasting“ was chosen 
in honour of E. G. Fitzgibbon, Esq., who l’or a third of a Century has 
so efficiently held the responsible and onerous office of Town Clerk of 
Melbourne, and who with genial and enlightened circumspectness has 
also constantly promoted science-research in the greatest. of Southern 
Cities. 
The specimens of H. Fitzgibboni from all the iocalities mentioned are 
remarkably uniform in their characteiistics. 
Heliotropium filaginoides Bentliam var. heteranthurn. 
Root thin, seemingly annual: leaves fiat, from narrow- to elliptic-laneeo- 
lar, as well as the branches and calyces hispidulous; some of the corollas 
enlarged, with semi lanceolar deltoid glabrous venulous lobes; nutlets four, 
rounded-biunt, scabrous. 
