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Mr. Froggatt showed — A collection of insects secured by Mr. 

 Surveyor S. R. Dobbie on Womberal beach, a sample of large 

 quantities to be found along high water-mark, after the recent 

 high off-shore winds, which carried great numbers of insects out 

 to sea. — A fine series illustrating the life-history of a longicorn- 

 beetle {Phoracantha recurva), together with parasites (four species 

 of Braconid wasps, one Chalcid, and one Clerid) which prey on 

 the larvte, obtained from the bark of fallen logs of Peppermint 

 Gums at Uralla, N.S.W., 1914-15. — Examples of a small Cordy- 

 ceps on a little lamellicorn-beetle, found under logs at Uralla. 



Mr. A. A. Hamilton exhibited specimens from the National 

 Herbarium including — Hosa Hort.var., (E. W. Mitchell; Wagga; 

 August, 1915), showing, in various stages, petalody, phyllody, 

 and prolification. First stage : the calyx and carpels are f rond- 

 escent, the latter being represented by elongated, plumose leaves. 

 Second stage : the carpellary f rondescent leaves have become more 

 attenuated, the petals exhibit a degree of virescence, and the 

 stamens are adherent to them. Third stage : four of the calyx- 

 lobes are frondescent, the fifth showing petalody; axial elonga- 

 tion has occurred, and the flower shows prolification, several par- 

 tially coherent buds, consisting chiefly of leaves, being present. 

 Fourth stage: the axis of the shoot is further prolonged, 

 and shows bundled fasciation; three distinct, coherent stems, 

 each surmounted by a bud, the buds also coherent, and two buds 

 on separate peduncles, arise from the centre of the primary 

 flower; the ovary of the latter is undeveloped, and two flowers, 

 represented by slightly petaloid calyces, are adherent to its axis. 

 — Lycopersicum esculentum Mill., a cultivated "Tomato," var. 

 "Earliana" (W. A. Birmingham; October, 1915), showing chlor- 

 anthy. A series of calyces form an almost symmetrical in- 

 volucre (similar to that of a Composite), ruptured only in a small 

 portion where the calyx-lobes have intruded, and disturbed the 

 axillary arrangement of the frondescent floral organs; the latter 

 are all narrowed, elongated, and have developed a degree of 

 curvature. A number of united pistils are to be noted, the styles 



