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Mr. Fred. Turner forwarded for exhibition a specimen of 

 Portulaca oleracea, Linn., infested with Dodder {C^isctiia azistralis, 

 R.Br.), collected on the Grey Range, N.S. W., an association of these 

 species not previously recorded. The exhibitor had also received 

 from the interior two other native plants, Boerhaavia diffusa, 

 Linn., and Alternanthera nodiflora, R.Br., similarly attacked. 



Mr. Palmer exhibited a number of interesting objects from 

 Lawson, Blue Mts., including a living Echidna ; a peculiarly 

 marked spider (Celcenia excavata, Koch), with two egg-bags 

 marked like the fabricator ; and specimens of maize showing 

 various abnormal associations of cob and tassel due to the imperfect 

 separation of the sexes. 



Mr. Deane exhibited specimens of fossil fruits ascribed to the 

 proteaceous genus Hokea, from Central Otago, New Zealand, 

 kindly forwarded by Miss Mai-chant of Dunedin. A short notice 

 of the discovery and identification of these fruits with other 

 remains, by Mr. G. M. Thomson, will be found in the Trans- 

 actions of the New Zealand Institute for 1896 (Vol. xxix. p. 628), 



