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doubtless made a fine floral display earlier in the season. I 

 have to confess that, owing to the approach of night, we were 

 unable to reach the actual summit of the mount, but went a 

 little beyond the fountain built by the Pubhc Works Depart- 

 ment on the road at a clear space which affords a fine view over 

 the country lying between Donna Buang and the Dandenong 

 Ranges, and over which we a Uttle later saw the sun set. 

 Before reaching this point we had splendid views over War- 

 burton and Big Pat's Creek, and as far as the Baw Baws. 

 The principal plants in flower along the road were the Forest 

 Senecio, Senecio velleyoides, and the River Mint, Mentha aus- 

 tralis, the latter in patches, the former in general abundance. 

 The return journey was made down the steep foot-track, said 

 to be about 2 J miles, but which seemed considerably more to 

 one who had walked all day. The hotel was reached about 

 9 o'clock. Nothing finer could be desired than the flora and 

 scenery through which we passed that day, and it is perhaps 

 best to refrain from gush, and simply say that it is so good 

 that no nature-lover should miss it. Monday morning was spent 

 in a drive to Big Pat's Creek, and an hour's stroll when there. 

 Leptospcrmum scoparium was in flower, attracting a few beetles 

 and other insects, while the beautiful saphngs of the Silver-top 

 Gum, Eucalyptus Sieheriana, were themselves worthy of the 

 trip. In the afternoon some of the party made a further 

 excursion up Scotchman's Creek before leaving for the city 

 by the 5.30 train. In the township we noticed, grown in pots, 

 some fine specimens of the Mountain Club-Moss, Lycopodium 

 densum, which had been obtained from near the O'Shannassy 

 Weir, about 13 miles distant. During the excursion special 

 attention was paid to thrips, of which several species probably 

 new were collected : but these have to be submitted to an 

 EngUsh authority. — R. Kelly. 



Daphnl\ carinata. King. — In a reprint of a paper by 

 Prof. G. O. Sars, pubHshed in Archiv for Mathematik os; Natur- 

 videnskah, B. xxiv., nr. i (Kristiania, 1914), the author describes 

 the typical form of Daphnia carinata, first described in the 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land (now 

 Tasmania) in 1853, and no less than seven varieties. We 

 notice that the late Mr. O. A. Sayce, A.L.S., and Mr. J. Searle 

 have been responsible for sending several of these interesting 

 forms to Professor Sars. Thus, var. intermedia was obtained 

 by Mr. Sayce at St. Arnaud ; var. gravis by Mr. Searle at 

 Kardinia Creek ; var. eurycepJiala (n.v.) by Mr. Searle at 

 Fairfield ; var. expansa (n.v.) by Mr. Sayce at Cheltenham, 

 and a closely allied form by Mr. Searle at Fairfield ; while vars. 

 cephalata and lamellata were obtained by Mr. Searle in one 

 gathering at Heidelberg. 



