July, 1907.] THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 55 



By Mr. C. F. Cole. — Stuffed specimens of Southern Blue- 

 tongue Lizard, Tiliqua nigrolutea, including male and female, 

 with three young removed in dissecting. 



By Mr. J. E. Dixon. — Kern or mill used by aborigines for 

 grinding pigments, seeds, &c., also three chipped stone axes, 

 from Deep Creek, near Bulla. 



By Professor A. J. Ewart, D.Sc, Ph.D. — Dried specimens of 

 Cassinia arcuata, R. Br. ; type form ; distribution — W.A., S.A., 

 v., and N.S.W. ; and Cassinia theodori, F. v. M. ; type form ; 

 a native of N.S.W. only. Also specimen of Cassitiia arcuata^ 

 R. Br., from Doncaster, Victoria, collected by Mr. Baton, 1894; 

 wrongly determined as C. theodori, and not subsequently cor- 

 rected. In consequence of this error in determination it has 

 been supposed that C. theodori is a native of Victoria as well as 

 of New South Wales, which is not so. All the specimens of the 

 supposed Victorian C. theodori hitherto seen were without doubt 

 C. arcuata, R. Br. From its peculiar odour C. arcuata, R. Br., 

 is known in some parts of Victoria as " Chinese Scrub," and it has 

 been proclaimed as a noxious plant in some shires. 



By Mr. J. P. M'Lennan. — Specimens of saw-fly, Perga, sp., 

 with larvae and eggs, also ichneumon fly, in illustration of his 

 note ; also aboriginal stone axe, found by Mr. R. Gay at Noojee, 

 on a high spur in very rough country, made from the slate 

 common in the district. 



After the usual conversazione, the meeting terminated. 



The Plants of the Grampians. — I had the idea, and 

 perhaps others have also, that certain plants said to be confined 

 to Mt. William (3,827 feet) were found only about the summit of 

 that peak. While on a recent holiday visit I discovered great 

 quantities of Candollea sobolifera (in fruit). I have also collected 

 this plant on the southern end of the Sierras, near Dunkeld. 

 Some seven miles from Mt. William, on the footslope of the next 

 range, at an elevation of not more than 800 feet above sea level, 

 in the gully which separates I\It. William from the next peak, the 

 Redman, at about the same height, are thickets of Bauera sessili- 

 flora, a few flowers being out at Easter. Here, too, were seen 

 some enormous plants of the fern Lomaria discolor, with very 

 graceful fronds fully five feet in length. Mrs. Barnes, of Pomonal, 

 showed me a fine plant of L. discolor, var. bipinnatifida, in the 

 garden, which she said she found in the ranges behind some years 

 ago. On the top of Mt. William a few trees of Eucalijplus alinna 

 were in flower. The local residents take this stunted eucalypt to 

 be the dwarfed form of the stringybark, E. capitellata, so common 

 on all the lower parts of the ranges. It is said to exist in many 

 other places as well, on the Redman, which can be seen over the 

 valley, rising to nearly the same height as Mt. William, and as 

 far south as Mt. Abrupt, near Dunkeld.— A. G. Campbell. 



