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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



May 28th, 1913. 



Mr. W. S. Dun, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Dene Fry, Sydney; and Mr. Leslie J. W. Newman, Perth, 

 W.A., were elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (30th April, 1913), amounting to 33 Vols., 100 

 Parts or Nos., 34 Bulletins, 3 Reports, and 18 Pamphlets, received 

 from 72 Societies and one Individual, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



M r. D. G. Stead exhibited the tail-barb or spine of a Stingray 

 (Dasyatis), which had been taken from the back of an example 

 of the same kind, int<J which it was buried to the depth of 55 mm. 

 The protruding butt-end (about GO mm.), was encased in a growth 

 of sessile barnacles, which, by their size, showed that the barb 

 had been buried in the Ray for some time. The wound caused 

 by the entry of the weapon had apparently healed. 



Mr. Fred Turner exhibited and contributed notes on: — (1) 

 Andropogon intermedins R.Br., from Warren, New South Wales, 

 a locality two hundred miles further west than the exhibitor 

 had hitherto known it to be found. — ( 2) Panicum melananthum 

 F.v.M., from near Lake Bathurst, New South Wales, not hitherto 

 collected in that locality by exhibitor. It is the only known 

 Australian species of Panicum with black spikelets, and on that 

 account is a most interesting grass. Both the above species are 

 figured and described in Turner's "Australian Grasses," Vol. i., 

 pp.5 and 40. — (3) An abnormal growth of Atriplex cainpanulata 

 Benth., from Mildura, Victoria. Both the leaves and the fruit, 

 ing perianths showed remarkable variation from the normal type. 

 It was the first time Mr. Turner had seen this species in the 

 condition exhibited. 



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