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and Mthws., /. crispiis. Roe, /. contractus., Roe, Acaiithochites 

 variabilis. Ad. and Ang., .-1. retrojcctus, Pils., Plaxiphora 

 petholata, Sow., and Cryptopkx striatus, Lam. ; also specimens 

 of Sepia apama. Gray, and 5. hraggi, Verco. 



By Mr. P. R. H. St. John. — Herbarium specimens (in various 

 stages), showing buds, fruit, mature and sapling foliage, also 

 seedlings, of Eucalyptus delegatensis, R. T. Baker (iqoo), 

 Woolly-butt, collected by exhibitor at Mount Donna 

 Buang, 31st March, 1912, not previously recorded as found 

 growing so near Melbourne (42 miles) ; also specimens of 

 Persoonia arborea, F. v. M. (Proteaceas), " Tree Geebung." from 

 same locality. 



By Mr. J. R. Tovey. — Dried specimens of Abutilou indicwn. 

 Sweet (Malvacene), Indian Lantern-flower, a native of the 

 tropical regions, also found in South Africa : Aizoon rigid um, 

 L., var. angustifoliuni, Sond. (Ficoidere), Rigid Aizoon, in- 

 digenous to South Africa ; Hermannia velutina, D.C. (Ster- 

 culiacea?). Velvet Hermannia. indigenous to South Africa ; 

 Mercurialis annua, L. (Euphorbiaceae), Annual Dog's Mercury, 

 a native of Europe and Africa, a troublesome weed in gardens, 

 containing a substance which turns the leaves, when drying, 

 to the colour of indigo blue, and gives the milk of cows feeding 

 upon it a bluish tinge — all collected at Coode Island on the 

 occasion of the Club excursion, 23rd March, 191 2, and new 

 introductions to Victoria ; specimen of Leptospermum Icevigalum, 

 F. v. M., Coast Tea-tree, found flowering at Mentone, 28th 

 March, iqi2. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



Some Acacia Notes. — During a ramble near Clayton a few 

 days ago I noticed the young shoots of an Acacia oxycedrus, 

 springing from the bases of burnt plants, showing true leaves 

 — i.e., the bipinnate form. Near Ballarat A. stricta has been 

 observed to carry a few true leaves on suckers springing up 

 after a fire. In seedlings a gradual change in foliage is well 

 seen in A . pycnantha, and a more al)ru})t change in foliage and 

 simultaneously in style of growth in .1. verticillata. Many 

 acacias are also remarkable for the slow develo])ment of their 

 flower- buds ; thus A. pycnantha in my garden at Sebastopol 

 carries recognizable flower- buds in December each year, the 

 flowers not opening till the following September (one or two 

 stray flowers have opened as early as 3()th June). .1. oxycedrus 

 can be seen in bud in the heath country about Caulfield at 

 least as early as February, though not flowering till August or 

 September. At the Creswick State Forest in xMarch the buds 

 of A. dealbata were well advanced, but it will be about the end 

 of July before they are fully (k'velo])ed. — T. S. Hakt, Hallarat. 



