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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Rainbow exhibited on behalf of Mr. E. Gr. W. Palmer, a 

 living specimen of the spider Li/cosa godeffroyi, L. Koch, from 

 Lawson. The specimen, a female, was covered with the recently 

 hatched out young. The spiderlings are always so carried by the 

 female during infancy, but when old enough to forage for them- 

 selves, distribute by the process of ballooning. The egg-bag or 

 cushion is always carried by these spiders attached to the 

 spinnerets. 



Mr. Deane exhibited the following plants of interest, which he 

 had collected a week previously in the neighbourhood of Byrock: — • 

 Eiicali/ptus fei'minaUs, F.v.M., Oweitia ncidula, F.v.M., Acacia 

 aneura, F.v.M.; Loranthus Exocarpi, Behr., on ^Q\ah[Casuarina 

 and other species), L. linoplujllus^ Fenzl., also on Belah ; Z. 

 pe7idulus, ^ieh., on Mulga (Acacia aneiiiYi, F.v.M.); and L. lineari- 

 folius. Hook., on Capparis. Mr. Deane offered some remarks on 

 the value of Mulga as a forage plant in a season of drought like 

 the present, and he contrasted the rational mode of cutting it for 

 stock with that too commonly followed. In the United States, 

 Cape Colony and elsewhere, vigorous efforts were being made to 

 acclimatise Australian salt-bushes, Eucalypts, and other useful 

 plants, whereas in their native country the tendency' seemed to 

 be towards their extermination rather than their conservation. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited some well-grown pot plants in flower from 

 the Botanic Gardens, including two indigenous species of Glosso- 

 stic/ma, a North Australian Pitcher-plant [Nepenthes Kennedyi, 

 F.v.M.), and Incarvillea Koopmannii, Lauche. Also photographs 

 of the inflorescence of the palm Hedyscepe Canterhuriana, 

 F.v.M., introduced from Lord Howe Island, which had recently 

 flowered in the Gardens. 



