ENPages That Mention Daviesia corymbosa var. mimosoides (R. Br.) Benth.
[Descriptions of orchid genera] [manuscript], 1880-1908. Manuscript 10
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130 Alfred J. Ewart:
demarcation based on a group of constant characters, for Diels' distinctions do not apply to all the specimens between this variety and the type species. The typical form of the closely allied C. Toddii of F. Mueller1 shows a trifling difference in the size and acuminate character of the bracts, while the prianth tube is rather more slender, is longer in proportion to the lobes, and somewhat more slender, and is more pubescent outside. Even these characters do not appear to be quite constant, so that C. Toddii may also ultimately prove to be a variety of C. Polycephalum when more intermediate material is available.
DAVIESIA CORYMBOSA, var. ST. JOHNII = D. CORYMBOSA, var. VIRGATA. (Papilionaceae).
This plant was recorded in the Victorian Naturalist, Nov., 1906, p. 133, and specimens have since been received from Mr. C. French, Jr., collected at Ringwood. They are identical with the D. virgata of Cunningham, which Bentham refers to D. corymbosa, var. mimosoides. The condensed clusters of small flowers and the very narrow leaves would, as suggested by Mr. W.R. Guilfoyle, justify the recognition of a second variety differing more widely from the type than var. mimosoides, even though transition forms occur, but the name should be variety virgata, in recognition of the old specific name for the variety.
DIPLOTAXIS MURALIS, D.C., the wall or sand mustard. (Cruciferae)
This introduced alien has also been variously referred to as D. muralis and D. tenuifolia, D.C. It has, however, the small flowers and less divided leaves of the former. The Australian specimens have the leaves less exclusively radical and more on the stem, and are often double the normal height, frequently reaching 12 to 16 inches. The plants also showa greater tendency to be perennial, but these changes are probably climatic ones, not necessarily of varietal significance, although they are approaches towards D. tenuifolia, D.C.
1 Fragm. vol x., p. 20.