66 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



taken to supply it. The difficulty of cutting has been fairly well 

 surmounted, and the material will be sent out in strips, which 

 can be divided transversely into the required lengths with a very 

 sharp knife (such as an okl table knife well ground). An ounce 

 of strips will mount from 750 to 1,500 or more specimens, 

 according to the size of stage required. They should be handled 

 as little as possible, as they easily show finger marks or forceps 

 dents. The latter will come out if the strip is placed for an 

 hour or two in a relaxing box, after which it cuts better, but it 

 must not be allowed to touch the moist surface or it will be 

 spoiled. 



A drawerful of micro-Lepidoptera carefully staged on this 

 material looks extremely neat. That the specimens are more 

 secure against injury, and that the value of the collection is 

 thereby increased can hardly be disputed. 



It may be interesting to note that the fungus affords an 

 excellent surface on which to print, so that it is perhaps possible 

 to combine label and stage in one. — Walter F. H. Blandford, 

 M.A., F.Z.S., in Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, August, 1895. 



[Perhaps it would be possible to use one of our Victorian 

 Polypori for the above purpose. We shall be glad to hear of 

 experiments in this direction. — Ed. Vict. Nat.'\ 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, WITH 

 OCCASIONAL OTHER ANNOTATIONS; 



By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 



(Continued.) 



Psoralea Walkingtonl 



Shrubby, erect, glabrous ; leaves conspicuously petiolated, 

 mostly trifoliolate ; leaflets large, narrow-lanceolar, entire ; flowers 

 very large, on rather short peduncles ; bracts small, as broad as 

 long, acuminate : pedicels of very considerable length ; calyx 

 divided to the middle into deltoid-semilanceolor lobes ; petals 

 pale-lilac and partly white, all very much longer than broad, the 

 two lateral petals somewhat shorter than the others ; nine of the 

 stamens high-connate ; fruit much surpassed by the calyx, oblique- 

 ovate, compressed, glandular-dotted. 



Near Frew-Creek ; W. B. Walkington. 



Branchlets slightly streaked. Petioles to i^ inches long; 

 rachis to i inch. Leaflets to 5 inches long, to 73-inch broad, 

 pale-green on the underside and also on the surface, minutely 

 and copiously dotted, faintly venulated, on very short stalklets. 

 Racemes to 3 inches long and remarkably broad. Pedicels 



