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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Stead exhibited a specimen of the peculiar Copepod, 

 Sphijrion (cevigatinn, Guer.-Men. { = Lesteira Kroyeri^ G. M. 

 Thomson in Trans. N.Z. Inst, xxii., p. 370, pi. 28, ff. 4, 4«, taken 

 from a living Genypterus blacodes), which is parasitic upon fishes. 

 It was collected by Captain W. Waller, from a lish caught in the 

 Tasman Sea. 



Mr. Baker exhibited (1) A specimen of the Conifer described 

 in his paper. (2) Specimens of a truffle, Mylitta lapidesce7is, or 

 "The little man's bread," obtained from the Droog Forest at an 

 elevation of 5900 feet on the Nilgiris, where they are found on 

 the ground at the base of large trees; they very much resemble 

 in appearance and structure diminutive specimens of the Austra- 

 lian Blackfellow's Bread, Polyposis mylitke, M. et C, specimens 

 of which in fructification were exhibited at the meeting of the 

 Society in October, 1902; so far, it appears that the fructification 

 has not yet been found, so that there is a possibility of the species 

 being referable to Polyporus and not Mylitta, in which genus the 

 Australian Blackfellow's Bread was placed until its fructification 

 was discovered. The specimens exhibited were received from 

 Dr. R. L. Proudlock, of Ootacamund. India. (3) A very fine 

 specimen of Olearia dentata, Andr., collected by Mrs. Helena 

 Forde at Pambula; the usual diameter of the corolla of this species 

 is |-| inch, but in the specimen exhibited it measures just over 

 3 inches. And (4), specimens of a curious fungus, Battarrea 

 Tepperiana^ Ludw., from Nymagee, N.S.W.; collected by Mr. W. 

 Bauerlen, of the Technological Museum. 



Mr. Cheel exhibited fresh specimens of Callistemon from three 

 plants raised by Mr. F. C. Lovegrove, of Penshurst, from seed of 

 the common Bottle-brush (C lanceolatus, DC). One plant pro- 

 duced flowers with rosy-pink filaments and 3^ellow anthers; whilst 

 the leaves are glandular-scabrous, agreeing with Bentham's des- 

 cription of C. coccintus, F.v.M. (Fl. Aust. iii., p. 120), as well as 



