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raan(Miss M, Flockton; May, 1910); the only other previous 

 Australian record is that of Mr. M. C. Cooke, for Victoria(Handb. 

 Aust. Fungi, p.246), the measurements of the spores being stated 

 to be 7-16 X 4-6 /x; in inatured specimens from Penshurst, the 

 spores were found to measure from 5-9 x 3-3^ m; these were also 

 examined by Mr. T. H. Johnston, of the Bureau of Microbiology, 

 whose measurements were 7"2fiX 2-7^, thus practically agreeing. 

 Mr. G. Massee, in his " Monograph of British Gastromycetes," 

 [Ann. of Bot. iv. 40, 1889] gives the spore-measurements as 

 8x3/i. The " Native Truffle " or " Widida " of the Blacks, 

 mentioned by Mr. Herbert Basedow as having been found at 

 Sandhills, north of Opparinna Spring, South Australia, during 

 the Prospecting Expedition in I903(vide Trans. Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 S. Aust., xxviii., p. 18, 1904) is very probably identical with this 

 species. It is also mentioned by J. Coghlan, as a delicacy of 

 the Blacks, and found on the western side of the Mulligan(^;^c/^ 

 Roth's " North Queensland Ethnography," Bull. No.3). 



Dr. Cuthbert Hall exhibited an abnormal seedling of Euca- 

 lyptus Cambagei and another of Angofliora lanceolata. The 

 first had normal cotyledons; the first leaves were a normal 

 pair, but the next three leaves were alternate, and following 

 these, then came five whorls of three. One cotyledon of the 

 second had undergone division, giving rise apparently to three 

 cotyledons; the first two pairs of leaves were opposite, sessile, and 

 decussate. A hybrid carnation (^Dianthus caryophyllus) with 

 three cotyledons, and leaves in whorls of three, was also shown. 



Mr. Basset Hull called attention to Mr. F. E. Littler's 

 " Handbook of the Birds of Tasmania and its Dependencies," 

 recently published at Launceston, and issued at a very moderate 

 price, a copy of which was shown; and he expressed the hope 

 that the day when similar Handbooks would be available in the 

 older States was not disappointingly far off. 



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