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nemestrimis['Me]houvnn Zoological Gardens{A. S. Le Souef); from 

 the East Indies)], (3) Dictyocaulus viviparus BL, {syn. Strongijlus 

 micrurus Mehlis) from the lung of a calf(Sydney)j (4) Nemato- 

 dlrus filicollis Rud.,(syn. Strongylus filicollis Riid.), from the 

 small intestine of asheep(Macleay River, N.S.W.), not previously 

 recorded from Australia; and (5) Coccidium sp., infesting the 

 submucosa of the small intestine of Parry's Wa\\ahj,(Macro2}>(s 

 parryi Bennett, South-Eastern Queenssland). 



Mr. E. Cheel exhibited a number of interesting funei, 

 including — Pucciniack^ : PucciniaccdendulceMcAX^.; host, Ca/- 

 endula officinalis 'Linn.; Penshurst{E. Cheel; July, 1910); previ- 

 ously recorded only from Victoria(Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1903, xxviii., 558; and in "Rusts of Australia," p. 151 — Helo- 

 TiACEiE : Sclerotinia sclerotioruin Lib., (syn. *S'. Libertiana Fckl.).; 

 sclerotia and mycelium were found infesting "Epicure Beans," in 

 a garden at Penshurst, causing great damage; not previously 

 recorded from Australia, so far as can be ascertained. — The 

 mycelium of an undetermined species, pendulous in habit, found 

 in the Pioprietary Mine, at Hillgrove by Mr. J. Staer, in 

 December, 1909. — Tne mycelium of a radiating fungus on a 

 board, Ijeneath a brass plate which had been exposed on a 

 building in Dean's i'lace, Sydney, for a period of eight years. 

 Rhizomorpha subterranea Pers., was also shown for comparison. — 

 PHALLOIDE.E : Jcinsia rugosa{%); Rook wood (A. G. Hamilton). — 

 A series of seedling tubers of potatoes, obtained from seed of 

 the variety known as " Blue-eyed Russet," were also shown, 

 exhibiting extreme variability in colour and shape. 



In response to a request, made at last Meeting, for exhibits of 

 the rare Protead, Grevillea Gaudichaitdii R.Br., from the Bluo 

 Mountains, Messrs. H. Deane, A. A. Hamilton, and W. Forsj th 

 showed specimens collected by them, more or less closely resem- 

 bling the pinnatifid type-form described by Robert Brown and 

 Mr. Bentham. Mr. Fletcher showed a remarkable series of 

 specimens exhibiting almost every gradation between entire 

 leaves closely resembling those of G. laurifolia when lanceolate, 



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