NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 656 



The Rev. Dr. Woolls sent specimens of Calotis scapigera and 

 C. his2ndula for exhibition, accompanying the following note : — 

 " I have lately found growing by the roadside at Concord, but 

 probably conveyed accidentally from the interior, a plaut of 

 C. scapigera, Hook. This species was collected by the late Sir 

 T. Mitchell, and described in a note at p. 75 of his " Tropical 

 Australia." It is common to N. and S. Australia, Victoria, 

 Queensland, and N. S. Wales, but until recently it has not been 

 found in this colony on the eastern side of the Dividing Range, 

 beine; limited, as hitherto recorded, to the vicinity of the Lachlan, 

 Macquarie, and Darling. The flowers of C. scapigera are yellow 

 in the centre, and white or lilac in the ray, having a pretty daisy- 

 like appearance, and the roots are creeping and stoloniferous. 

 The species occurring near Sydney are C. dentex, R. Br., 0. cunei- 

 folia, R. Br., both with the ray florets purple, and C. lappulacea, 

 Benth., with yellow flowei's. Not long since I found G. hispidtda, 

 F.V.M., growing on a heap of manure near Burwood, but in this 

 case it is probable that the plant sprang from seeds brought 

 by sheep from the interior, as the burrs adhere to the wool and are 

 very troublesome in some parts of the colony. It may be men- 

 tioned that the genus Calotis is limited to Australia, and that the 

 species now known are the 15 described in the Flora Australiensis, 

 and another fC. KempeiJ in Baron Mueller's Census. Of these 

 13 occur in IST. S. Wales, and only four in W. Australia. C. 

 cymbacantlia (F.v.M.), common to S. Australia, Victoria, and 

 N. S. Wales, is elegantly figured amongst the Baron's Lithograms 

 of Victorian Plants." 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited specimens of the frog described by Mr. 

 Boulenger. 



Mr. Skuse showed examples of Batrachornyia, a fly which in the 



larval state is parasitic upon frogs ; and he remarked that though 



he was familiar with the perfect insects when bred from frogs, 



these were the first specimens met with on the wing which had 



come under his notice ; they were caught in a marshy place at 



Thornleigh, near Sydney. 

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