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on the coast at this time, as he received reports indicating such, 

 from various places, and he considered that those in Brisbane 

 Water were probably enticed in by shoal-fishes near the entrance 

 — then losing their bearings owing to the smallness of the 

 entrance. 



Mr. Fred Turner exhibited specimens of three grasses of 

 interest: (1) Eriachne scleranthoides F.v.M., found near Mount 

 Poole, N.S. W. The specimen was forwarded by Mr. R. Gowland 

 for identification. Mr. Turner had not hitherto known this 

 Central Australian grass to be indigenous to New South Wales. 

 (2) Urachne parviflora Trin., syn. Piptatherum multiflorum Beauv., 

 a South European species, collected near Bodalla, N.S.W. Speci- 

 mens of this grass had previously been received for identification 

 and report, as to its value for stock-feed, from Exeter, in this 

 State, and from Ballarat, Victoria. In Europe it is popularly 

 known as the " Falling Awn Grass," and now appears to be 

 acclimatised in parts of South-eastern Australia. (3) Bromus 

 macrostachys Desf., et var. villosus. This Mediterranean species 

 and variety were received by Messrs. Anderson and Company, 

 Seedsmen and Plant Merchants, Sydney, from one of their clients 

 near Albury, N.S.W., and they were forwarded by that firm to 

 the exhibitor for identification and report. Two other European 

 species of Bromus, viz., B. mollis Linn., and B. sterilis Linn., 

 have spread very much in New South Wales during recent years, 

 and are common in many of the wheat-fields in different parts of 

 the State. 



Mr. R. T. Baker exhibited: (1)A slab of "Red Cedar," 

 Cedrela Toona Roxb., taken from a large stack of that valuable 

 timber, which had been entirely ruined by a fungoid growth; the 

 mycelium covered the entire surface in beautiful fern-shaped 

 masses, penetrating the whole fibre of the timber, and rendering 

 it quite valueless as a commercial article. The slabs had been 

 stacked for seasoning, with Oregon laths between each piece, and it 

 was to the presence of the latter that the trouble was attributable, 

 the spores evidently having been imported with the laths. In 

 other stacks where Oregon " strips " were not used, the Cedar 

 was unaffected. (2) A series of specimens, showing various 



