Vol.XXVIll, 



1911 



1 Field Naturalists' Club — Proceedings. 147 



The author described in an interesting way the many 

 botanical specimens met with during a trip from Bairnsdale 

 up the Tambo Valley and over the Alps to Omeo. The latter 

 district, though at an elevation of about 2,200 feet, did not 

 provide such interesting botanical material as might have been 

 expected. 



Messrs. Topp, M'Lennan, Pitcher, and Barnard took part in 

 a short discussion which followed. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTE. 



Dr. T. S. Hall, M.A., called attention to his exhibit of 

 " pineapple " opal, a rather rare occurrence, and gave some 

 explanation of its composition and probable formation. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. J. W. Audas. — Dried specimens of the following 

 plants in illustration of his paper : — Adriana tomentosa. Gaud., 

 Woolly Bitter-bush ; PuUencBa strida, var. Gunnii, Golden 

 Bush-Pea, with Witches' Broom ; Dodoncea viscosa, var. attenimta, 

 Hop-bush ; Plectanthrus parviflorus, Henck., Cockspur flower : 

 Eriostemon myoporoides, D.C., Long-leaved Wax-fiower ; Cassia 

 Australis, Sims, Spice-bush ; Acacia oxycedrus, Sieb., Spike 

 Acacia ; Calythrix tetragona. Lab., Four-cornered Buttercup, and 

 Ramalina Eckloni, Spreng., on twigof Melaleuca; petrified wood 

 from Oriental Sluicing Claim, Omeo. 



By Mr. F. Cayley. — Flowers of Bladderwort, Utriciilaria 

 dicliotoma, and leaves of Nardoo, Marsilea Dvummondi, from 

 Werribee . 



By Dr. T. S. Hall, M.A. — Pineapple opal, from White Cliffs, 

 New South Wales. 



By Mr. A. L. Scott. — Specimen of the Sow Thistle, Sonchus 

 oleraceiis, L., an introduced weed, which was breaking down a 

 sound wall. 



By Mr. J. Searle. — New species of Copepoda, of the genera 

 Bceckella and Brunella, collected at Nyora, South- West Gipps- 

 land, 7th November. 



By Mr. F. Spry. — A bred specimen of the beetle, Sclerocyphon 

 maculatus, Blkb.; Eucharis, sp. (order Hymenoptera), found in 

 nest of ant, Ectatomma, sp. ; a bred specimen of moth, Asura 

 lydia, Don., larvae found under a stone with ant, Iridomyrmex, 

 sp. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



OCTOBER MEETING. 



The following abstracts of excursion reports read at the 

 October meeting of the Club could not be published last month 

 on account of pressure on our space : — 



