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tella acricula, Cardita delicatula, Placotrochus deltoidens ; also 

 marsupial bones, volcanic bombs, calcareous and ferruginous 

 concretions. Recent shells from same lake and Lake Gnotuk, 

 living plankton obtained by tow-net in Lake Bullenmerri, 

 5th September, including Copepoda, Amphiphoda, Rotifers, 

 Diatoms, Desmids, Algc^e, &c. 



By Master W. Searle. — Moth. Coltissa denticulata. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE SANDRINGHAM 



FLORA. 



By C. S. Sutton, M.B. 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, i }th March, 191 2.) 

 The reasons for the following notes are more particularly to 

 record a number of additions to the census of the Sandringham 

 flora, as given in my previous paper, " Notes on the 

 Sandringham Flora " {Vict. Nat., xxviii., p. 5), and, 

 in the light of a better knowledge of the locality and the 

 aid of a map, to more exactly define the original limits of 

 the formation, and indicate the areas at present occupied by 

 what remains of it ; also to make some remarks concerning 

 some of its more notable plants and plant associations, and 

 incidentally attempt the definition of such ecological terms as 

 may have been used. 



For many of Lhe names added to the census, I must in the first 

 place acknowledge my indebtedness to Messrs. T. S. Hart, 

 Charles French, jun., and P. R. H. St. John. 



Mr. Hart furnished me with much interesting matter, which 

 he has kindly permitted me to incorporate in my notes, and 

 Messrs. French and St. John indicated to me that most interest- 

 ing locality south from Oakleigh, where so many plants not met 

 with, or only rarely met with, elsewhere in the formation are 

 now growing. To Mr. French also I owe the opportunity of 

 inspecting some patches and remnants of the original vegetation 

 in the vicinity of Ashburton and Canterbury. 



Dealing with the new names added to the census in a some- 

 what ])romiscuous fashion, mention will at the same time be 

 made of other j^lants already noted, but now occurring perhaps 

 only rarely. 



According to Mr. Hart's notes, Vdleya paradoxa grew 

 on the cliff, extending from the drain south of Holyrood- 

 street, Brighton Beach, to near where the old tea-tree begins. 

 There also, " where a clayey soil exists, with the underlying 

 calcareous rock sometimes exposed," wei;e collected the Shor*^ 

 Helmet Orchid, I'lcrostvlis Mac/iibbini, Blunt Helmut ( rchid. 



