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flowered forms to taller, more luxuriant and larger-leaved and
flowered forms, in the following sequence:—

E. collina, R.Br., var. striata. (E. striata, R.Br.; E. alpina,
var. humilis, Benth.).

E. collina, R.Br., var. alpina. (E. alpina, R.Br.; E. diemenica, Spreng.).

(Type form) var. typica (E. collina, R.Br.; E. tetragona,
R.Br.; E. multicaulis, Benth.).

E. collina, R.Br., var paludosa.
" " var. speciosa. (E. speciosa, R.Br.).

Further, the size of the flowers tends to increase in cultivated
specimens, and the colour is highly variable.

KOCHIA VILLOSA, Lindl., 1848 (Salsolaceae)

Among some stored specimens at the Herbarium, probably
derived from the Sonder collection, one was found from A. de
Jusieu, dated 1832, E. Nova Hollandia, and named Rhogodia,
Billardierii, R.Br., which proves to be the above. Hence this Kochia
reached Europe long before it was described by Lindley, and the
present is possibly the oldest Herbarium specimen of the plant.
The label and specimen are pasted on the sheet, and hence there
is no possibility of accidental transference having occurred.

LYONSIA STRAMINEA, R. Br., = L. STRAMINEA (R. br.), Benth.
and Mueller. (Apocynaceae).

In pursuing some interesting archæological but hardly botanical,
studies, Britten1 concludes the the L. reticula of F. v. Mueller,
is the true L. straminea of R.Br., and proposes a new name
(L. Brownii) for the plant, supposed to be Brown's L. straminea
by Bentham and Mueller. A more confusing and unnecessary
addition to synonymy could hardly be proposed, and it is interesting
to note on p. 240, that Britten sharply criticizes
Druce for a similar addition to synonymy based on no more
certain grounds. Britten admits that "Brown published no detailed
description of the species," but considers that de Candolle's
description of L. straminea referred, "at any rate in

1 Journ. of Botany, vol xlv., 1907, p. 255