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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited a specimen of Loranthus upon Melaleuca 

 sp., from Kangaroo Island, and contributed the following Note 

 thereon: — "The late Prof. Ralph Tate makes the statement* 

 that 'both bird [mistletoe bird, Dicoium] and mistletoe are absent 

 from the large adjacent insular lands of Tasmania and Kangaroo 

 Island.' For some time past I have been making enquiries on 

 the subject through the kindness of Mr. Walter Gill, Conservator 

 of Forests, Adelaide. In June, 1903, he reported that a Mr. 

 Wells had seen Mistletoe growing on Gums (Eucalypts) at Duck 

 Lagoon, Cygnet River, 12 miles from Queenscliffe, Kangaroo 

 Island, but no specimens were available. Since then specimens 

 have been received from Mounted Constable Thorpe, who obtained 

 them from White Lagoon. They show the Mistletoe (iLoranthus 

 pendulus, Sieb., var. parvijiorus) in leaf only, in situ on Mela- 

 leuca sp. It remains to further test the truth of the dictum as 

 regards Tasmania." 



Mr. Cheel exhibited herbarium specimens of two apparently 

 very different forms of what is usually regarded as Helichryaum 

 bracteatum, Willd., (N.O. Composites), collected near Eden, Two- 

 fold Bay, December, 1903, one of them a rather tall, not viscid 

 plant, with broad leaves, such as is commonly seen in the Illa- 

 warra district; the other a dwarf, viscid plant, from 9-12 inches 

 high, with narrow leaves, which are also viscid. He also showed 

 fresh flowering specimens raised from seed of each of the above 

 forms, showing the characteristics of the respective parents. The 

 exhibits suggested doubts as to the correctness of Mr. Bentham's 

 views upon the synonymy of II. hracteatum (Fl. Austr. iii. 620); 

 but the discussion of the point could not be carried further at 

 present for lack of opportunity for comparison with specimens 

 from Sieber's and other collections not available to a botanist in 

 Australia. 



* Proc. Aust. Assoc. Adv. Sci. vii., 556. 



