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the first to discover this Indian grass in Australia( Vaucluse, 1904); 

 since then Mr. F. M. Bailey, F.L.S., had recorded it from Southern 

 Queensland(1906); the exhibitor from Rose Bay, near Sydney, and 

 several places on the banks of the Parramatta River as far as 

 ■the Ryde Bridge; and Mr. A. A. Hamilton quite recently from 

 Leura, Blue Mountains. It spreads very rapidly in favourable 

 situations, is an excellent pasture grass which horses and cattle 

 eat readily and on which they a])pear to do well, and is a good 

 grass for making a lawn. (2) A fasciated growth of Lepidiuni 

 ruderale Linn., found growing on the bank of the Macquarie 

 River, near Warren, New South Wales, a condition not previously 

 met with in this species. (3) Crotalaria Gunninghamii R.Br., 

 ■one of the most interesting species of the genus; a very rare 

 plant in New South Wales, found only in the far west. The 

 specimen sliown was grown by Mr. G. W. Wiggins, of Leichhai'dt) 

 from seed gathered in West Australia. 



Mr. E. Cheel exhibited specimens of a fungus, Cronartium 

 jacksonice P. Henn.,on branches of Jacksonia Sternberg iana Hueg., 

 from Cottesloe, near Perth, AV.A.(Dr. J. Burton Cleland; August, 

 1908;; and on{1)Aotus villosa Sm., Cronulla(Miss Carole; October, 

 1910). This fungus had not been recorded previously either from 

 West Australia or from New South Wales. Mr. Cheel reported 

 that he had succeeded in bringing about the development of the 

 teleutospores of Puccinia tasiaanica Diet., by infecting the 

 common groundsel with secidiospores. 



Mr. W. M. Carne showed some extraordinary cases of floral 

 prolification in specimens of a species of Teasel( Z)i/)saciis), from 

 the Hawkesbury Agricultural College garden. 



On behalf of Mr. H. Burrell, the President exhibited a photo- 

 graph of a marine vi\o\\\x%c[Cyrn,huun) in the act of ovipositing. 



