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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 

 29th Septembeh, 1920. 

 Mr. .). J. Fletclier. M.A.. B.Sc, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Herbert Charles Furst, Linwood Avenue, Killara, an<l Dr. Edwix Tueo- 

 PHILUS •Je.s.se Ick-Hewins, Dimedoo, were elected Ordinary jlembers of tlie 

 Soeietj-. 



The President made regTetful reference to the death of the Rev. \V. W. 

 Watts. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly .Meeting 

 (25th Aug'ust. 192IM, amounting to 6 Volumes, 89 Pai'ts or Nos.. 4 Bulletins, 2 

 Reports, and 1 Pamphlet, received from 3(i Societies and Institutions and one 

 private donor, were laid ujion the table. 



NOTE.S AND EXHIBITS 



-Miss Hyiies e.xhihited a very symmetrical concretion from Natal Downs Sta- 

 tion, about 90 miles inland from Charters Towel's, Q. 



Mr. E. G. Jacobs exhibited specimens of Epacris piirpiirasceus showing 

 perfectly doubled flowers. The plant from which these specimens were collected is 

 growing naturally beside one or two plants showing single flowers only, on a 

 stony ridge at Kyde. 



Mr. E. Cheel exhiliited two living plants of Erigeron, w-hich had been re- 

 garded as forms o^ one species, namely, E. linifolius, as recorded in these Pi'o- 

 ceeding's, xliii., 1918, p. 610, but which on investigation seem to be identical with 

 specimens in the National Herbarium labelled Canyza Naudinii Bonnet (BuU. 

 Soc. Bot. Fr., XXV., 1878, p. 208). Another specimen from the Ea-stern Pyrenees 

 labelled Canijza altissima Ch. Naud. et. U. Debx. seems to be scarcely distinguish- 

 able from C. Naudinii, but as the works describing these species are not available 

 in our libraries, the differences between the two species cannot be settled. 



He also exhibited specimens of a wild strawlierry, Fragraria itidica Andr., 

 from Summer Hill, which is also spreading rapidly on the Bellingen River in 

 Paspalum paddocks. Specimens from the latter place were lirought in for deter- 

 mination by Mr. D. Boland. 



Mr. W. F. Blakely exhibited specimens from the National Herhariuin of a 

 supposed hybrid form of Boronia serrulata Sm., ^ b_ floribunda Sieb., and a 

 variety of B. serrulata, both from the Homsby district. The leaves of the hybrid 

 closely resemble tliose of B. serrulata, and are nearly all simple; some, however, 

 are binate. others tcrnate on the same branch. The inflorescence is axillary and 

 terminal, while the flowers are solitary and cymose, but do not vary essentially 

 from those of B. serrulata. As most of the im]iortant characters agree with 

 those of B. serrulata the evidence points to it being the seed bearer. This form 

 is almost identical with the one exhibited by Mr. J. H. Maiden, on behalf of 

 Mr. T. Steel (these Proceedings, 1906, p. 566), but differs from the specimen 

 exhibited by Mr. A. A. Hamilton (these Proceedings, 1915. p. 4191 in the 

 majority of the leaves being simple. 



Boronia serrulata Sm. var., a virgate plant about 18 inches high; young 

 shoots minutely tomentose; leaves lanceolate, acute, slightly erenulate, 12 mm. 

 long, 3-4 mm. broad ; bracts, sepals and petals more acuminate than in the normal 

 B. serrulata Sm. It differs from B. serrulata Sm. in the narrow lanceolate leaves 

 and relatively smaller flowers. He also exhibited a white form of Bornuia flori- 

 bunda Sieb., which, as far as he could ascertain, had not been previously recorded. 



Mr. C. Hedley gave a short account of the work of the Pan-Pacific Science 

 Congi'ess held at Hcmolulu in August. 



