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thrives at an elevation frum 5000 to 8000 feet, while here it flourishes at sea 

 level, and appears to be sufficiently stable to be considered a naturalised alien. 

 It is depicted in the Botanical Reijister t. 1732. 



Crepls setosa is a native of Europe and Asia Minor, and is now recorded for 

 the first time for Australia. Several jilants were found growing- in a lane off 

 Florence-street. Hornsby (W. ¥. Blakely). In New Zealand it is classed as a 

 roadside weed . For a ready reference to the description, see Hookers Students' 

 Flora of the British Isles, p. 228. 



Mr. A. A. Hamilton exhibited a seed of Biitia yataii Beec. (Cocos yatai/ 

 Mart.), grown in the Sydney Botanic Gardens by J. H. Camfield, which had pro- 

 duced twin seedling's Worsdell (Prin. of Plant Terato.. 1, pi. 9) figures twin 

 seedlings in the "Desert Rod" Eremostuchys laciniata, and attributes the dicho- 

 tomy (p. 94) to fasciation. Patterson f Journ. of Heredity, x., 350) figures an 

 example of polyembi-yony in the '"Mango." Mangifera hidica, showing a series of 

 seven seedling's arising from a single seed. The occurrence of twin stems in a 

 seedling of Acacia juniperina has been noted bv Mr. R. H. Cambage (Journ. Rov. 

 Soc. N.S.W., xlix.. 93.) 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited a stunted In-anch of Encaliiptu.'< sali(/tia with a cluster of 

 about thirty-five four-pronged female galls of the Coccid, Brachiisceli>/ munita 

 Schrader, together witli numerous grouped or single male galls. One horn of one 

 of the female galls, about 13 inches long, carries a small female sail- 



