Sept. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3315

Trogo sitidae Cadelles and other grain and dried-fruit beetles.
Trypetidae spp. (fruit-flies).
Tinea spp. (grain-moths).
Tribolium spp. (flour-beetles).

Weed Pests.

Ageratum conyzoides L. (goatweed).
Amaranthus retroflexus L. (pigweed, redroot).
Amaranthus albus L. (common tumble-weed).
Amaranthus artemisifolia Mayn and Walp. (ragweed, hog-weed, roman wormweed).
Asclepias curassavica L. (red-head or milky cotton-bush, Madagascar cotton-bush or wallflower cotton-bush).
Avena fatua L. (wild oat).
Acaena ovina Cunn. (sheep’s burnet, or sheep’s burr).
Acaena sanguisorba Vahl. (burr-weed).
Bromus secalinus L. (chess, cheat, or wheat-thief).
Camelina sativa L. (false flax, gold of pleasure).
Chenopodium album L. (lamb’s quarters, goose-foot).
Chondrilla juncea L. (chondrilla).
Crotalaria sagittalis L. (rattlebox).
Cucurbita perennis Gray (wild gourd, calabazita).
Cretica hedypnois (hawkbit or cretica).
Cerastium vulgatum (broad-leaved mouse-ear chickweed, or greater burnet).
Crepis virens L. (smooth hawksbeard).
Cerastium glomeratum Thu. (mouse-ear chickweed).
Diodia teres Walt. (button-weed, alligator-head).
Daucus brachiatus Sich. (dwarf carrot).
Dipsacus sylvestris L. (wild teazel).
Echium vulgare L. (blue-weed, viper’s bugloss, blue-thistle, blue-devil).
Erechtites valerianae folia D.C. (Brazilian fireweed).
Erodium moschatum L’Herit (musky heronbill, ground needle).
Gaertneria discolor (franseria).
Githago lychnia L. (purple corn-cockle).
Helenium autumnale L. (sneezeweed).
Hypochaeris glabra L. (smooth catsear).
Iva xanthifolia Nutt. (marsh-elder, false sunflower, high-water shrub).
Iva axillaris Pursh. (poverty weed).
Jatropha multifida L.
Jatropha Curcas L. (physic-nut or purging-nut).
Jatropha gossypifolia L. (cotton-leaved jatropha; erroneously termed “castor-oil plant”).
Lantana Camara L. (Kamara lantana).
Lantana selloviana Link and Otto (Sellow’s lantana).
Lappula lappula (narrow-leaved stickseed, beggar-tick).
Leontodon hirtus L. (hairy thricia).
Lepidium ruderale L. (narrow-leaved pepper-wort).
Linum catharticum L. (purging-flax).
Myagrum perfoliatum Lim. (musk-weed).
Oxalis corniculata L. (yellow wood-sorrel).
Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn (brake, eagle-fern, bracken).
Plantago aristata Michx. (bracted plantain).
Rhus radicans L. (poison-ivy, poison-oak, poison-vine).
Salsoga kali-tragus (L.) Moq. (Russian thistle).
Sedum telephium L. (live-for-ever, garden orpine).
Sida rhombifolia L. (syn. Sida retusa L.) (flax-weed).
Sisymbrium altissimum L. (tumbling-mustard).
Solanum carolinense L. (horse-nettle).
Silene gallica L. (French catchfly).
Stellaria media D.C. (chickweed).
Stachys arvensis L. (staggerweed, or wound-wort).
Sagina procumbens D.C. (procumbent pearl-wort).
Thlaspi arvense L. (wild garlic, bastard cress, French weed).
Togetes glandulifera (stinking-roger).
Urtica incisa Poir. (cut-leaved nettle or native nettle).
Urtica urens L. (small nettle, or dwarf nettle).
Verbascum thapsus L. (moth-mullein).

The introduction into Australia of the following has been prohibited :-

Plants absolutely prohibited.

(a.) Any stone-fruit trees or any living portions thereof which were grown in any part of North America, or any other part of the world in which either of the diseases known as “peach-yellows” or “peach-rosette” exists.
(b.) Pear-trees or any portion thereof from all parts of the United States of America, or from any other part of the world, in which the pear-blight (Bacillus amylovorus) exists.
(c.) All gooseberry-plants or portions thereof from any country affected with Sphaerotheca mors-uvae (the American gooseberry-mildew).

Plants conditionally prohibited.

(a.) Plants or portions thereof of all and every species of Vitis from all parts of the world, unless the Minister, on the recommendation of the Chief Quarantine Officer, permits the introduction of the fruit of any species of the genus Vitis.
(b.) Further unless, generally, in relation to any plant, the Minister, on the recommendation of the Chief Quarantine Officer, permits the importation from any country by that officer of any trees or plants, or portions thereof, in accordance with the regulations.

1. Noxious Insects and Pests.

NOXIOUS INSECTS.

All insects of the genus Sphenophorus (beetle-borers of the sugar-cane and banana).
Anobium spp. (drug-store beetles).
Ctenopseutes obliquana (New Zealand peach-moth).
Phylloxera vastatrix (grape-vine louse).
Lasioderma serricorne (cigar and cigarette beetles).
Doryphora decem-lineata (Colorado potato-beetle).
Cecidomyia destructor (Hessian fly).
Formicidae spp. (ants).
All beetles belonging to the families Bostrychidae, Scolytidae, Cioidae.

PESTS.

Hemileia vastatrix (coffee-leaf disease).
Phytophthora infestans (Irish blight of the potato).
Peach-rosette.
Peach-yellows.
Bacillus amylovorus (pear-blight).
Sphaerotheca spp. (mildew of hop, rose, peach, apricot, and gooseberry).

WEED PESTS.

Amsinckia angustifolia Lehm (narrow-leaved amsinckia).
Anthemis arvensis L. (corn-chamomile).
Anthemis cotula L. (stinking mayweed or fetid chamomile).
Arctium Lappa L. (burdock).
Argemone mexicana L. (prickly poppy).
Asphodelus fistulosus L. (asphodel or onion-weed).
Brassica sinapistrum L. (charlock).
Bartsia spp. (all species of Bartsia).
Calandrinia (Claytonia) caulescens H.B. and K. (purple calandrinia).
Capsella Bursa-pastoris Moench (shepherd’s purse).
Carduus sp. (all thistles).
Cenchrus tribuloides L. (hedgehog or burr grass).
Centaurea sp. (all star-thistles).
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum L. (ox-eye daisy).
Chrysanthemum parthenium Hoffm. (feverfew).
Chrysanthemum segetum L. (corn-marigold).
Conium maculatum L. (hemlock).
Convolvus arvensis L. (lesser bindweed).
Cryptostemma calendulacea R. Br. (Cape weed).
Cucumis myriocarpus Naud. (gooseberry-cucumber).
Cuscuta spp. (all species of dodder).
Datura stramonium L. (thorn-apple).
Echium violaceum L. (Paterson’s curse or purple bugloss).
Eichhornia speciosa Kunth. (water-hyacinth).
Emex australis Steinh. (spiny emex).
Erysimum repandum L. (treacle-mustard).
Euphorbia helioscopia L. (sun-spurge).
Euphorbia peplus L. (petty-spurge).
Foeniculum vulgare Gaertn. (fennel).
Fumaria officinalis L. (fumitory).
Galinsoga parviflora Cav. (small-flowered galinsoga).
Galium aparine L. (cleaver’s or goose grass).
Gilia (Navarretia) squarrosa Hook and Arn. (Californian stinkweed, diggers’ weed, or sheep’s weed).
Homeria collina Vent. (var. miniata Sweet), (Cape tulip).
Hypericum androsceum L. (tutsan).
Hypericum perforatum L. (St. John’s wort).
Inula graveolens Desf. (stinkwort).
Kentrophyllum lanatum Desf. (saffron thistle).
Lactuca saligna L. (wild lettuce).
Lepidium draba L. (hoary-cress).
Lepidium campestre R. Br. (field-cress).
Lithospermum arvense (ironweed, corn-cromwell).
Madia sativa Mol. (pitchweed).
Malva parviflora L. (small-flowered mallow).
Malva rotundifolia L. (dwarf mallow).
Matricaria discoidea D.C. (rounded chamomile, common matricary, wild chamomile).
Nicotiana glauca Grahm. (wild tobacco-plant or tree-tobacco).
Onopordon acanthium L. (Scotch thistle).
Oxalis cernua Thunb. (South African wood-sorrel).
Oxalis tetraphylla Cav. (four-leaved wood-sorrel).
Papaver dubium L. (long-headed poppy).
Papaver hybridum L. (wild poppy).
Papaver rhoeas L. (field-poppy).
Picris echioides L. (ox-tongue).
Picris hieracioides L. (hawkweed).
Polygonum aviculare L. (knotweed, hogweed, or wireweed).
Polygonum convolvulus L. (black bindweed).
Polygonum persicaria L. (common persicaria).