146 NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY. No. 1. By J. H. Maiden and E. Betche. («). Notes on rare Port Jackson Plants. UMBELLIFER^. SiEBERA Stephensonii, Bentli. Traclij/mene Sfej)henson/i, Turcz. Collected in January, 1895, by Mr. W. W. Froggatt near Botany, and in January, 1897, by Mr. W, Forsyth (Overseer of the Centennial Park, and now a member of this Society), near La Perouse. It was previously specifically recorded only from Manly. (Also "within 125 miles of Sydney" in Bentham's Flora Australiensis). COMPOSITE. Helichrysum adnatum, Benth. Syn. H. retusum, F.v.M. (partim) F. v. Mueller, Census, also Ft'ctgm. viii. 46. Collected in November, 1890, by E. Betche near Oatley, and in November, 1896, by Mr. J. Boorman near Hurstville. It is not recorded as a Port Jackson plant in Bentham's Flora Australiensis, nor in Dr. Woolls' " Plants Indigenous to the neighbourhood of Sydney," though " Port Jackson " (sometimes, however, a designation for a very wide geographical area, as used by the older botanical writers), is given as the habitat in De Candolle's Prodromus, Vol. vi. p. 166. LEGUMINOS^. Acacia Baueri, Benth. Collected near Rose Bayin 1886, has been recently discovered by Mr. W. Forsyth in a second Sydney locality, the Centennial I
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