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grasses exhibited were an excellent illustration of the remark- 

 able recuperative properties of the herbage composing Austra- 

 lian pastures. No other vegetation, of an equal eeonomic value, 

 in the world could have recovered in a shorter space of time 

 than those indigenous grasses. Mr. Turner also showed 18 

 photographs, taken last month by Mr. Thomson on different 

 parts of Kilmorey Station, showing the luxuriant grasses and 

 forage pUuits now growing there, 



Mr. A. A. Hamilton exhibited specimens from the National 

 Herbarium, and contributed notes thereon, comprising a series 

 of examples of the fruits of Angopliora cordifolia Cav., Killara 

 (A. A. Hamilton; December, 1915), showing divergence in shape 

 and size, apical and basal, together with variation in the degree 

 of pilosity and calycal ribbing. The capsules range from quad- 

 rangular to orbicular at the apex, and from broadly turbinate to 

 attenuate at the base, the vestiture of the fruit-calyces varying 

 from smootii to hispid, or rough and bristly. The rim of the 

 capsule is seen, in some examples, to be more or less deeply sunk; 

 in another group it is parallel to the border of the calyx-tube; 

 while a further series shows a broad, conspicuous rim, recurved 

 and folded outwards, overlapping the sides of the calyx-tube. 

 The primary ribs of the fruit-calyx are 4 or 5 in number, in 

 conformity with the angularity or degree of rotundity of the 

 fruit, and they exhibit a marked variation in the measure of 

 prominence attained. A range of dimension from 1-2 cm. in 

 diameter occurs at the apex of the fruit, with a similar variation 

 in length from apex to base. The pedicels vary in length from 

 l-3i cm.; they are stout, slender, terete, angular, or more or less 

 dilated. The series was gathered from a clump of apparently 

 healthy plants growing in a sheltered position on a rocky (sand- 

 stone) hill-side, under normal conditions (as far as could be 

 ascertained). — Lambertia formosa Sm., Leura (A. A. Hamilton; 

 November, 1915), showing variation in the fruit-appendages. 

 The follicles vary from 1-lA cm. in length, with a similar range 

 in breadth; the horn on the dorsal margin varies from broadly 

 obtuse and 3 mm. long, to narrow-linear and 2 cm. long, straight 

 or curved; that on the upper angle of the valve is from barely 



