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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 

 29th June, 1921. 



Mr. G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc, B.E., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Horace William Brown, Reid Park, Mosman, was elected an Ordinary 

 Member of the Society. 



Letters were read from Mr. J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc, and Mr. R. J. 

 Noble, B.Sc, returning thanks for congratulations. 



It was resolved that the congratulations of members be conveyed to Sir 

 Hugh Dixson on the honour of Knighthood conferred on him. 



The President called the attention of members to two very useful volumes on 

 Sweden presented by the Swedish Consid-General for Australia. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous monthly meeting 

 (25th May, 1921), amounting to 10 vols., 92 Parts or Nos., 7 Reports and 9 

 Pamphlets, etc., received from 57 Societies and Institutions and four private 

 donors, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. W. F. Blakely exhibited from the National Herbarium the following new 

 and rare plants for New South Wales:— (i.) Kochia Georgei Diels. (Bot. Jahrb., 

 XXXV., 1905, p. 184), a Western Australian |ilant, now recorded for N.S.W. and 

 S.A. Mount Oxley near the Darling River (E. Betche, October 1883) ; Wil- 

 cannia (E. Betche, 1893) ; Broken Hill (.7. B. Holding, Oct. 1916 and E. C. 

 Andrews, Nov. 1917) ; Gawler Ranges (J. M. Black, Jan. 1913) ; Mt. Lyndhurst, 

 "A perennial fodder plant 1— lA feet high," (Max Koch, No. 190). It differs 

 from K. oillofia in the much larger, glabrous ;ind broadly winged perianth, which 

 sometimes exceeds 2 cm. in width. — (ii.) K. villosa Liudl. var. microcarpa Benth. 

 from Zara Station, Wanganella (Miss E. Olfieer, No. 226, May, 1905). Ap- 

 parently a rare plant as it is the only specimen from a definite N.S.W. locality 

 in the Herbarium. It is a well-marked variety and differs considerably from the 

 typical form. — (iii.) Drymaria fiUformis Benth. A small wiry Caryophyllaceous 

 plant previously recorded from the Murray River district (Mueller), and re- 

 cently received from Pine Ridge, Wyalong (Alex. Cooper, Nov. 1920). 



Mr. G. H. Hardy exhibited a species of Eusthenia from Cradle Mt., Tas- 

 mania, described as new Ijy Dr. Tillyard. 



Mr. E. Cheel exhibited a live plant of Cosmos caudatus H.B. et K., raised 

 from seed collected from plants naturalised at Macnade Mill district in Queens- 

 land, received from Dr. T. Guthrie. The specimens were grown for comparison 

 with specimens collected at Fiji in July, 1918. It is quite common everywhere in 



