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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Professor Haswell showed under the microscope preparations 

 of the Sporocysts described in his paper. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens of the curious coccid, Frenchia 

 casuarince, Mask., recently found by him on casuarinas, near 

 Condobolin, N.S.W.; the species was originally described from the 

 Wimmera district, Victoria, and is now recorded for the first 

 time from New South Wales. Also specimens of the larvae of 

 the pine-scrub beetle (Diadoxus erythrurus) recently collected 

 from dead or dying Currawong bushes (Acacia doratoxyloii) on 

 the ranges about the Lachlan River beyond Condobolin. As 

 living trees are to be found side hy side with dead or dying ones, 

 and as some of the latter may yield as many as half a dozen larvae, 

 Mr. Froggatt expressed his belief that in the locality mentioned 

 the destruction of the trees was attributable to the insects, and 

 not to the drought. 



Mr. Fred. Turner exhibited specimens of {\) Plantago coronopus, 

 Linn., collected by him in the north reserve at Coogee Bay, a 

 species not hitherto found in New South Wales, he believed, 

 though it has been recorded from the Southern and Western 

 States; (2) Lobelia pur pni^ascens, R.Br., in a state of malformation, 

 a condition not previously observed by him. 



Mr. Baker exhibited two sections of " Blackfellow's bread," 

 Polyporus mylittce, Cooke and Massee, showing the fructification of 

 this fungus — one in the growing, and the other in the indurated 

 stage; timber of Euroschinus falcatus, Hook, f.; a particularly 

 fine specimen of the flannel flower, Actinotus Helianthi, Labill., 

 showing fasciation of the stem; and the foliage and bark of a 

 probably now species of phyllodineous Acacia from Kingstown 

 viaUralla; alsoa "Box"seedlingof Eucalyptus populifolia^ Hook.f., 

 from Mount Drysdale, to illustrate the contention that the so-called 

 •' Box" suckers of the western plains are not suckers in the true 

 botanical sense, but seedlings; and in support of the view that 



