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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited typical specimens of Bidbnus miltocheilus, 

 Reeve, and the varieties mentioned in his paper, and of Trochus 

 Adamsi, Brazier, and Truchns Poupineli, Montr., from Isle Nou, 

 New Caledonia. 



Mr. Hedley remai'ked that an inspection of Calliostoma Pon,- 

 pineli, handed round by Mr. Brazier, and which he had not before 

 seen, proved that the Australian species certainly differs fi'om the 

 New Caledonian. He failed, however, to distinguish specifically 

 the species re-named C. Adamsi by Mr. Brazier from that recently 

 figured and described by himself as C. purpureocinchcm. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited specimens of Litscea ( Tetranthera) reticu- 

 lata (N. O. Laurineaj), a plant new for the Colony, from Lismore, 

 Richmond River, where it is known as "She Beech," and (with 

 larger leaves) from Port Macquarie, where it passes under the 

 name of "Scaly or Yellow Beech." 



Mr. Fred. Turner exhibited specimens of Morchdla conica, Pers., 

 collected by him on a grassy shady flat and on the side of a shady 

 hill, near Junee. Some of the specimens were five inches long, 

 and one and a-half inches in diameter. So far as he was aware 

 this fungus has only hitherto been known to occur in New South 

 Wales by a single specimen which was sent to him for identifica- 

 tion from the south coast district about five years ago. Dr. Cook, 

 in his "Handbook of Australian Fungi," gives as the habitat of 

 the species only Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. 



Mr. Waite exhibited a mounted specimen, and a skull of 

 Dendrolagus bennettianus, in illustration of his paper. 



Mr. A. G. Hamilton sent the following note on Pittosporum 

 undidatum, Andr. : — 



"Recently, in examining some flowers of this plant, I found the 

 anthers very slightly developed, and the stigma mature, suggesting 

 that the plant was strongly proterogynous. In flowers from another 

 tree, however, the anthers were found to be well developed, while 



