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citrioiiora, F. v. M., Sweet Verbena Myrtle, Queensland, grown at 

 Botanic Gardens ; Callistemon puliidosiis, F. v. M., Swamp Bottle- 

 brush, Victoria and New South Wales ; also dried sporocarps 

 of Marsilea qiiadrifolia. 



By Prof. Spencer. — Dried specimens of Marsilea quadrifolia, 

 showing sporocarps ; also sporocarps obtained at Cooper's 

 Creek, Central Australia, by the Howitt Relief Expedition, 

 1862. 



By Mr. J. Wilcox.— Flowering specimens of the New South 

 Wales Christmas-bush, Ceratopetalum gumjuiferum, grown at 

 Camberwell. 



By Mr. H. B. Williamson. — Dried specimens of Logania 

 longifulia, K. Br., var. siibsessilis, from Wimmera, and Solanum 

 violaceitm, R. Br., from East Gippsland, new for Victoria ; also 

 Acacia triplera, Benth., and Daviesia incrassata, Smith, probably 

 Victorian, but localities doubtful at present. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting ' terminated. 



EXCURSION TO LILYDALE QUARRY. 



Starting from Flinders-street on Saturday, igth January, as 

 a modest party of four, on arrival at Lilydale our number had 

 increased to nineteen, comprising, in addition to members of 

 the F^ield Naturalists' Club, some members of the Microscopical 

 Society of Victoria, who had arranged, at the invitation of the 

 leader, to join the excursion. Armed with the approval and 

 caution of the station-master at Lilydale, we proceeded up the 

 line and turned ofi into the Cave Hill Quarry. The dav being 

 still and warm, the wood smoke from the kilns hung about the 

 quarry, and, although not absolutely unpleasant, made the 

 air rather pungent, (^iathering our forces at the entrance of the 

 quarry, we were about to meike our peace with a supposititious 

 official engineer, when we discovered to our surprise that he 

 was a fellow-member who had arrived earlier, and whom we 

 exonerated from all suspicion of having skimmed the palre- 

 ontological cream prior to our arrival. After a short ex- 

 planation of the age and method of deposition of the limestone, 

 its fossil contents, and the nature of the changes it has under- 

 gone since its consolidation, we proceeded to examine the 

 blocks on the floor of the quarry. An absence of the rich, 

 friable limestone was noticed, from which so many fine speci- 

 mens of gasteropods have formerly been obtained. However, 

 a fair number of specimens were collected, and after about an 

 hour's hammering the following fossils were found : — Calcareous 

 Alga.'. — (lirvanella and other forms. Corals. — CyathopJiyllum 

 sp. ; Favosites grandipora, Eth. lil. Alveolites (?) — Heliolitcs 

 inter sliiicta, Linnc, sp. Stromatoporoids. — Claihrodictyon , sp., 



