212 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
and var, are described in the Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1903, 
p. 907, in “‘Notes from the Bot. Gar., Maiden and Betche.’’ 
G. decurrens, R. Br.—Usually found growing on the 
face of dripping rocks, or other moist situations, in mountain 
gullies, at an elevation seldom below 1000 ft. This species 
provides one of the surprises met with in the cultivation of 
our Native Flora. We might reasonably conclude from its” 
natural environment that it would prove to be a difficult hor- 
‘heultural subject; on the contrary it grows freely in the 
coastal sand belt in the Port Jackson district, and will toler- 
ate a considerable spell of drought. Grown as a pot plan‘ 
in the bushhouse, it will, with moderate care, reward ihe 
grower with a profusion of handsome flower-spikes. It may 
be grown from seeds, which germinate freely. The seed- 
lings are hardy and not difficult to transplant. 
Brunoma australis, Sm. (near ‘‘Govett’s Leap,’’ Black- 
heath).—A pretty herbaceous plant, resembling a Composite, 
with a head of small flowers of a ‘‘Forget-me-Not’’ blue. The 
writer has not succeeded in germinating seeds of this species, 
but it is easily grown from offsets in the same way that «ne 
divides the plants of the garden ‘‘Daisy,’’ (Bellis perennis, 
Linn. and vars.). 
Velleya montana, J. Hook. ‘(Medlow, 3/1/1903.)-—A 
diminutive plant with the flowers snugly tucked in amongst 
the tuft of basal leaves, in search of shelter from the rigor- 
ous climatic conditions obtaining in the alpine regions (> 
which it undoubtedly belongs. It is known from the 
mountains in Tasmania and the Australian Alps, but had 
not previously been collected on the Blue Mts. 
V. spathulata, R. Br.—Two very decided forms of this 
species have been collected by the writer, one, at the National 
Park, Mar., 1900 (on a dry hillside), an upright plant, with 
radical leaves 4 inches long, finely toothed all round the mar- 
gin, and a loose, open inflorescence, with few flowers; the 
other from Narrabeen, April, 1900 (in a swamp), with radi- 
cal leaves only lin. long, the margins entire or with a few 
blunt teeth at the apex, the branches of the inflorescence 
crowded and the flowers comparatively numerous. 
The adaptation to an unstable foothold is again exempli- 
fied, in the case of the swamp form, with its leaves spreading 
on the ground and its decumbent stems twining through the 
rushes and other swamp vegetation in search of support. The 
description of this species given in the /7. Austr. is sufficient- 
ly elastic to admit both these forms, whose variable character- 
isation may reasonably be attributed to the difference in the 
conditions of their habitat. It is essentially a northern 
species, and previous fo the above collections was not known 
south of Newcastle. 
