512 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr, A. A. Hamilton showed a series of botanical specimens 

 collected in Egypt and Palestine, by Mr. W. M. Carne, a Mem- 

 ber, while serving with the Australian Imperial Forces. 



Mr. E. Cheel exhibited — Fresh, flowering-specimens of two 

 hybrid Callistemons raised from seed received from a European 

 seedsman, under the names of C. amoenus, and C. lanceolatus 

 var. lilacina; the first with filaments of a purplish-garnet colour 

 (not yellowish, as figured by Lemaire, in Illust. Hortic, vii., 

 t.247); the second with creamy-white filaments (not (a) deep 

 carmine- violet to reddish-violet or pure mauve, or (6) reddish- 

 purple— as in other plants from the same batch of seedlings, 

 recorded in these Proceedings, 1916, p.219). — Examples of the 

 rare occurrence of a solitary, small bracteole, or of a pair of 

 bracteoles, at the base of the flower, in addition to the bract, 

 in a hybrid Callistemon (C. acuminatiis x C. lanceolatus). — 

 Specimens of an introduced weed, Linaria Pellisseria'na Mill., 

 commonly called ''Billy Goats," collected at Albury, N.S.W.(A. 

 H. Patterson). 



Miss Hynes showed examples of — a white-flowered variety of 

 Epacris longijlora Cav.; fasciation of the stem in Antirrhiiium'y 

 synanthic flowers of Digitalis: and spikes of a form of CalHste- 

 mon linearis with the filaments greenish, crimson, or of inter- 

 mediate tints, on portions of the same plant. 



The Secretary communicated particulars of some recently dis- 

 covered. Aboriginal carvings on a flat rock, near Palm Beach, 

 north of Manly (furnished by the Secretary of the Barrenjoy 

 Company, Ltd.). 



Dr. H. G. Chapman exhibited — A sample of an extract of the 

 pancreas of the ox, made with chloroform-water; and showed 

 tubes illustrating the coagulative action of this extract on milk 

 in neutral or acid solutions; and the absence of such action in 

 alkaline solution. — An example of synanthic flowers of Fuchsia 

 (the fusion including the petioles), received from Mr. J. T. Kelly, 

 of Bur wood. 



