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stages of growth of an entomogenous fungus, Cordyceps(^.) Gunnii, 

 collected by Mr. E. H. Wyburd, at Corowa. The specimens 

 were in good preservation, and nearly perfect, except for the 

 absence of the fructification. 



Mr. A. A. Hamilton exhibited plants in a teratological con- 

 dition from the collection of the National Herbarium, comprising 

 Zinnia elegans Jacq., (Sydney Botanic Gardens) showing lateral 

 foliar prolification of the inflorescence. A series of leafy branches 

 is noted springing from the axils of the floral bracts. These 

 reduced branches are also produced in the axils of the ordinary 

 leaves. The ligulate florets, as seen in a normal flower, are sup- 

 pressed.— Carduus pycnocephalus Jacq., showing foliar prolifica- 

 tion of the flower. The centre of the bud is occupied by the 

 intruded pithy peduncle (the flowers are normally articulate on 

 the peduncle) from which springs a series of whorls of leafy 

 bracts tipped with spines representing the suppressed floral 

 organs. — Dahlia Hort.var., showing extra-floral prolification of 

 the inflorescence. A Dahlia with normally white flowers, having 

 a series of branches bearing leaves and supernumerary buds pro- 

 jecting beyond the capitate inflorescence. 



Mr. E. Cheel exhibited fresh specimens of Xerotes sp., from Hill 

 Top, which appeared to be an undescribed species. Also a fine 

 series of specimens of Tetratheca from various localities, namely — 

 T. thymifolia Sm., very common at Hill Top, Colo Vale, and 

 Moss Vale; and very distinct from T. ericifolia Sm., with which 

 it was united by Baron von Mueller in his Census (1889), and 

 by Moore and Betche, in the Handbook of the Flora of N. S. 

 Wales (1893). Mr. Maiden, in the Agricultural Gazette of New 

 South Wales [vii., (1896) p. 264] mentions it for Hill Top, and 

 the Rev. Dr. Woolls records it for ^ Mount Wilson (These Pro- 

 ceedings, 1887, p. 7). It has also been recorded in These Pro- 

 ceedings for 1899, p.354; and 1906, pp.39 and 48, by Mr. A. G. 

 Hamilton, and Mr. R. H. Cambage respectively. In the Flora 

 Australiensis (i., p. 130), the range given is from Port Jackson 

 to Blue Mountains, Bathurst, Hastings River, and Twofold Bay. 

 F. M. Bailey and the Rev. Tenison- Woods also record it from 

 Brisbane in These Proceedings, 1879-80, p. 141. In the National 



