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above species. The plants have the peculiar character of inrolling 

 during dry weather, and unfolding in damp or rainy periods; and 

 specimens from Bell trees, Scone, collected by Mr. H. L. White, 

 in August, 1906, were exhibited at a meeting of this Society in 

 1909 [These Proceedings, 1909, 591]. In addition to the above, 

 specimens have been received from Old Man Point, Canoblas 

 (T. H. Johnstone; April, 1908). A variety of the species has 

 been found and recorded from Spencer's Gulf, and Mount Eba 

 (Giles, No.107); and Fraser's Range, S.A.(R. Helms, Nos.43, 73); 

 and from Mueller River, Queensland (C. W. Birch), under the 

 name Parmelia semiviridis var. major Miill.-Arg., (Lich. Beitr. 

 No.579, and " Hedwigia," 1892, 193; see also Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 Queensland, vi., 1889, 115; and Shirley's Lichen-Flora of Queens- 

 land, p. 187, for the Queensland record). There is a specimen 

 in the National Herbarium, from Biddenham Agathella, Queens- 

 land, collected by Miss H. Martin, which is only a slightly 

 broader form, and clearly belongs to the variety. The specimens 

 very closely resemble some forms of Cladonia foliacea Schaer., 

 especially var. convoluta Wain.; and it is interesting to note 

 that Nylander (I.e.) created a Section Cladonioides, of the genus 

 Parmelia, for the inclusion of this very interesting species. It is 

 quite possible that Cladonia degenerans f. errdtica Lindsay, 

 [Trans. Linn. Soc. London, xxv., 533, 1866] found at Woodburn, 

 Saddle-Hill, New Zealand, may belong to this species, as it is 

 said to become curled up into ball-like masses, which are detached 

 in course of time from the ground, and which then roll freely 

 before the wind on the downs about the seaward base of Saddle- 

 Hill.— Mr. Cheel also contributed the following Note on Red 

 Clover Rust: At the Agricultural Show held in Sydney, in 1909, 

 I obtained a few seeds of the Perennial Red Clover, and sowed 

 the seeds in my garden at Penshurst. The seeds germinated, 

 grew into fine healthy plants, and flowered; and some of the seed 

 was set, as several self-sown plants came up in the vicinity of the 

 parent-plants. All the self-sown plants were allowed to grow, 

 and they were healthy, showing no sign of disease. One of the 

 self-sown plants was transplanted into some very poor virgin soil 

 at Hill Top, in September, 1912, and in December of the same 



