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Vaucluse, and noted its rapid spread on the Vaucluse estate 

 The finding of this plant at Leura further demonstrates its 

 capacity for acclimatisation. — Eryngmni vesiculosum Labill.; 

 Hartley Vale; March, 1910(A. A. Hamilton). Described in the 

 Flora Austi'aliensis(Vol. iii., p.370) as having " stems elongated, 

 prostrate, with the appearance of stolons but not rooting." In 

 the specimens exhibited the stems had rooted. — Opercularia 

 dijjhylla Gartn.; Hartley Vale; March, 1910 (A. A. Hamilton). 

 Not previously recorded from the Blue Mountains. — Typhoniuin 

 Brownii Schott; Stanwell Park; October, 1910(A. A. Hamilton). 

 Not hitherto known south of Port Jackson. 



Mr.E.Cheel exhibited a series of fungi, including — PucciNiACEiE 

 Hemileia vastatrix Berk. & Br. Specimens of Coffee-tree leaves 

 were brought over by Mr A. R. McCulloch, from Mele, Port 

 Vila, New Hebrides, who reports that the plantations are very 

 badly affected. In the National Herbarium, Sydney, there are 

 specimens from Port Moresby, which were brought over by Burns, 

 Philp & Co. in April, 1903, a fact which clearly proves that tlie 

 disease has firmly established itself. — Lycoperdace^ : Geaster 

 tenuipes Berk.; Hobart, Tasra., (S. G. Hannaford; May, 1870); 

 and Byng, near Mount Canoblas, dated July, 1893 (Miss 

 Georgina King). In Cooke's " Handbook of Australian Fungi " 

 (|).227), the only locality recorded for this species is Tasmania. 

 C. G. Lloyd in " The Lycoperdacepe of Australia, New Zealand 

 and Neighbouring Islands," p. 18(1905) mentions that two collec- 

 tions of this species are at Kew, from Tasmania and New South 

 Wales, but he does not give any specific locality; and he is inclined 

 to refer the species to G. pectinatus. Geaster plicatus Berk.; 

 Tooloom Ranges, Sikes Gap (J. H. Maiden; December, 1907); 

 Rookwood (Miss A. Spencer; July, 1910; communicated by Mr. 

 A. G. Hamilton). Only a solitary specimen of this species was 

 recorded in these Proceedings for 1907(|).202), so that it is par- 

 ticularly interesting to have more specimens from such widely 

 separated localities. C. G. Lloyd (op. cit. pp.17-18) records this 

 species from Sydney, from specimens collected by Mr. R. T. 

 Baker. — DEMATiACEiE: Hehninthosporuim Ravenelii Curt., on the 



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