^P^'''"] Field Naturalists'- Club — Proceedings; 169 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTE. 



Mr. H. B. Williamson said that recently, when examining the 

 plant collection of Rev. A. J. Maher, of Wonthaggi, who for 

 eight years had been a diligent collector in the Genoa district, 

 he found eight species of plants which have rarely been collected 

 in Victoria, and are not represented in the National Herbarium 

 collection by any Victorian specimens. The plants are : — • 

 Persoonia lanceolata, 'Andrews, P. salicina, Persoon, Goodenia 

 stelligera, R. Br., Leptomeria acida, R. Br., Oxylobium tri- 

 lobatum, F. v. M., Dodoncea calycina, Cunn., Poranthera 

 corvmbosa, Brong., and Pteris nmbrosa, R. Br. Mr. Clinton, 

 of Mitta Mitta, had sent him specimens of an acacia, determined 

 as A. nibida by Mr. Maiden. This appeared to him to have been 

 confused with A. penninervis , var. falciformis, and he was ex- 

 hibiting specimens of the latter for comparison, but there was 

 no mistaking the two species when the pods of each were com- 

 pared. Specimens of all these plants had been presented to 

 the National Herbarium. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. J. W. Audas, F.L.S. — Dried specimen of orchid, 

 Caladenia dilatata, R. Br., Fringed Spider Orchid, with two 

 labella, collected at Evansford, near Talbot, by Miss R. 

 Cleghorn. 



By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. — Growing fern, Asplenium, sp., 

 from Yallingup Cave, Western Australia ; also maps, &c., in 

 illustration of paper. 



By Mr. C. E. Cole. — ^Thirty of the thirty-five species of 

 butterflies recorded for Tasmania ; also a few Victorian species, 

 taken near Melbourne. 



By Mr. C. Daley, B.A. — Basalt from Balcombe Bay, Port 

 Phillip, showing (a) gradual result of atmospheric action in 

 weathering and bleaching, {b) the result of the lava-flow cooling 

 quickly on the surface ; also photographs showing basaltic 

 structure at Richmond Quarries. 



By Mr. J. Gabriel. — Photographs showing destruction of 

 Mutton-birds, &c., at Phillip Island, in illustration of paper. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — Victorian marine shells, Chlamys 

 asperrimus, Lam., and Pecten medius, Lam., from Western Port 

 Bay. 



By Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S. — Fang of Tiger Snake. 



By Mr. C. L. Plumridge. — Living larvae of Emperor Gum 

 Moth, Anther cea eucalypti, in several stages. 



By Mr. J. Wilcox. — Flowering branches of New South 

 Wales Christmas Bush, Ceratopetalum gummiferum, Smith, 

 grown at Canterbury ; also frond of bracken fern, Pteris 

 aquilina, nine feet in length. 



