100 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



On Saturday, the 27th of August, seven members were unde- 

 terred by the showery weather of the earlier part of the day and 

 met the leader at the Brighton Beach station on the arrival of 

 the 2 o'clock train from town. The party at once proceeded in 

 quest of " pond life," and first visited a swamp near Smith's 

 paddock, where, amongst other captures, were taken three well- 

 grown specimens of Apus. A pond by the side of the road 

 leading easterly from Hampton station was next tried and yielded 

 a good number of colonies of Lacinularia pedunailata, a rotifier 

 which had been observed as occurring in this pool very plentifully 

 during the previous three or four weeks. Some of the clusters 

 were over a quarter of an inch in diameter and contained hundreds 

 of individuals. The party then made their way to the swamp 

 above Sandringham station, and, after a short time spent in col- 

 lecting, started homeward by rail about 6 o'clock. Two rotifers — 

 Mastigocerca elongata and Euchlanis macrura — not previously 

 recorded in Victoria were identified on later examination of the 

 material. — J. Shephard. 





EXCURSION TO RINGWOOD. 



Five members left town by the 1.20 p.m. train for Ringwood on 

 . aturday, 3rd September, and were joined en route by the leader 

 and two other members, together with three lady visitors, so that 

 there was a fair party when gathered together at Ringwood station, 

 though not so large as the leader anticipated, considering the 

 beauty of the day and the rich floral district to be explored. 



After a delay of a few minutes, to decide the direction to be 

 taken, the party struck off to the south-east, keeping somewhat 

 parallel to the Ferntree Gully railway. Flowers were soon met 

 with in a bit of scrub round one of the deserted antimony mines, 

 though nothing of particular note was seen. Near here can be 

 found, in the season, the pretty Utricularia. Crossing on to some 

 lower ground several acacias were met with, and a snake disturbed, 

 but not captured. Ascending a hill the orchids C. deformis, C. 

 carnea. P. nana, and D. maculata were obtained. Here, also, 

 Drosera whitakertwas in abundance, and its snow-white flowers and 

 red leaves had a charming effect. Further on some good scrub 

 was entered and fine bunches of flowers obtained — Acacia verti- 

 ci/afa, myrtifolia, linearis, stricta, melanoxylon ; Euphrasia brownii, 

 with many leguminous flowers, being obtained, altogether some 

 fifty species of flowers being noted during the afternoon, though 

 none of them particularly rare. The party returned by the 5.10 

 p.m. train to town. — F. G. A. Barnard. 



