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cillata, witli one of two examples met with, of the fruit of the 

 Port Jackson Fig (Ficus rubiginosa) accidentally impaled on a 

 stalk that had heeii eaten down by stock, resembling, at first 

 sight, a fungoid gall. 



Mr. Cheel showed (by permission of the Director of the 

 Botanic Gardens) a series of specimens of Eragrostis, with notes 

 thereon, from the National Herbarium : — Eragrostin elotigata 

 Jacq.; Cullen Creek and Edith Ci'eek, collected during th^ 

 scientific expedition of Professor W. Baldwin Spencer(and others), 

 from Darwin to the Roper River, Gulf of Carpentaria (July- 

 August, 1911). There are also specimens in the National Her- 

 barium from Edkins Range, Meda, Barnett River, Goody Goody, 

 and Jiroome, W.A., collected by Mr. \N'. V. Fitzgerald. Other 

 .specimens from Cairns, N. Queensland(E. Betche: August, 1901), 

 Rockhampton(R. Simmons; 1907), Coff's Harbour(J. L. Boorman; 

 May, 1909), Ballina(W. Bauerlen; April, 1894), and from Aus 

 tralia without specific locality(R. Brown; 1802-1805), and North 

 Australia without the collector's name or date, have distinctly 

 pubescent leaves and leaf-sheatbs; and are probably Poa pubes- 

 cens R.Br.(Prodr., p. 181), mentioned b}- Bentham in Fl. Aust., 

 (vii., p. 647) under Eragrostis Brownii Nees. They appear to me 

 to be a well marked variety of the above species. ^E. pectinacea 

 Nees : A Mexican species, cultivated at Spring Hill, Hawkes- 

 bury Agricultural College, Richmond, and Cowra. The axillar}? 

 tufts of hairs in each branch of the inflorescence are very pro- 

 minent. E. plana Nees : A Soutli African species cultivated at 

 the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Riclnnonfl, and in the 

 Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Tt is interesting to note that there 

 are minute glands on the nerves of the spikelets, plainly visible 

 with an ordinary pocket-lens. These, so far as F can ascertain, 

 bave not been previously mentioned. A', neo-mexicana Vasey : 

 Cultivated at the Bathurst Farm, Coolabah and Yanco Experi- 

 ment Farm, and also received from tbe neighbourhood of Mar- 

 rickville. This is a perennial grass, and is reported as an ex- 

 cellent fodder-grass in American works. The loose purplisli- 

 coloured leaf-sheaths h^ve distinct spots (probably glands) on the 



