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citriodora, F. v. M., Sweet Verbena Myrtle, Queensland, grown at 

 Botanic Gardens ; Callistemon palmhsiis, F. v. M., Swamp Bottle- 

 brush, Victoria and New South Wales ; also dried sporocarps 

 of Marsilea quadrifolia. 



By Prof. Spencer. — Dried specimens of Marsilea quadrifolia, 

 showing sporocarps ; also sporocarps obtained at Cooper's 

 Creek, Central Australia, bv the Howitt Relief Expedition, 

 1862. 



By Mr. J. Wilcox. — Flowering specimens of the New South 

 Wales Christmas-bush, Ceratopdalum i^ummiferuin, grown at 

 CamberwcU. 



By Mr. H. B. Williamson. — Dried specimens of Logania 

 longifolia, R. Br., var. subsessilis, from Wimmera, and Solanum 

 violaceiim, R. Br., from East Gippsland, new for Victoria ; also 

 Acacia tripiera, Benth., and Daviesia incrassata, Smith, probably 

 Victorian, but localities doubtful at present. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



EXCURSION TO LILYDALE QUARRY. 



Starting; from Flinders-street on Saturday, 19th January, as 

 a modest party of four, on arrival at Lilydalc our number had 

 increased to nineteen, comprising, in addition to members of 

 the Field Naturalists' Club, some members of the Microscopical 

 Society of Victoria, who liad arranged, at the invitation of the 

 leader, to join the excursion. Armed with the approval and 

 caution of the station-master at Lilydale, we proceeded up the 

 line and turned off into the Cave Hill Quarry. The day l)eing 

 still and warm, the wood smoke from the kilns hung about the 

 quarry, and, although not absolutely unpleasant, made the 

 air rather pungent. Gathering our forces at the entrance of the 

 quarry, we were about to make our peace with a sup])()sititious 

 official engineer, when we discovered to our suri)risi' tliat he 

 was a fellow-member who had arrived earlier, and whom we 

 exonerated from all suspici(^n of having skimmed the palae- 

 ontological cream prior to our arrival. After a short ex- 

 planation of the age and method of deposition of the limestone, 

 its fossil contents, and the nature of the changes it. has under- 

 gone since its consolidation, we proceeded to examine the 

 blocks on the floor of the quarry. An absence of the rich, 

 friable limestone was noticed, from which so many fine speci- 

 mens of gasteropods have formerly been obtained. However, 

 a fair number of specimens were collected, and after about an 

 hour's hammering the f(jllowing fossils were found : — Calcareous 

 Alga. — (lirvanella and other forms. Corals. — CyaUuiphylhnu 

 sp. ; Favosiies grandipvra, ¥A\\. lil. Alveoliti'S (?) — HclioUtcs 

 inter stincta , Linne, sp. Stromatoporoids.— C/a/Z/rorfidyoM, sp.. 



