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at Longlea, near Bendigo. Also fresh specimens of Praso- 

 phyUwnt album, Rog., from Somerville ; Caleya major, R. Brown, 

 from Longlea and Tooborac ; Prasophyllum Frenchii, F. v. M., 

 from Bayswater and Croydon ; and Cryptostylis longifolia, R. 

 Brown, from Ringwood — the first-named being remarkable for 

 its pleasant perfume. Also a potato with a small, perfect 

 potato growing internally. 



By Mr. F. Pitcher. — Acacia Mitchelli, Benth., Mitchell's 

 Acacia, and Elceocarpus cyaneus, Aiton, Victorian Blue-berry, 

 at present flowering in the Melbourne Botanic Garden ; also a 

 fasciated stem of the Rooted Cat's-ear, Hypochceris radicata, 

 Lin., two feet high and two inches wide, with between 60 and 

 70 flower-heads dispersed over it, collected at Upper Pakenham. 

 A photograph of this plant was also exhibited. 



By Mr. C. L. Plumridge. — Flowering specimens of Elceocarpus 

 cyaneus, Victorian Blue-berry, grown at Kew. 



By Mr. J. Searle. — Living specimen of the fresh-water polyp, 

 Fredricella, sp. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



The Yarra Herring and the Tupong. — Dr. T. S. Hall, 

 M.A., has forwarded the following note received from Mr. H. 

 Quiney, of Mortlake, also a member of the F. N. Club, re the 

 above fish. Mr. Oumey says : — " I was passing Hiscock's fish 

 shop, in Moorabool-street, Geelong, one day in 1873 or 1874, 

 when I saw about two dozen fish of a kind which seemed 

 unfamiliar to me, so I went inside to make a closer inspection, 

 when, to my surprise, I found them to be the Fresh-water 

 Herring or Cucumber Fish, and on inquiring where they came 

 from was also surprised to learn that they had been taken in 

 Fenwick's Lake (the northern arm of Lake Connewarre), near 

 the channel to the Barwon. This so-called lake is extremely 

 salt, and is undrinkable. When I lived in Geelong, some years 

 ago, the graylings or herrings could generally be caught with 

 the fly during March, between Queen's Bridge, near Fyansford, 

 and the Breakwater. They were never very plentiful — the 

 biggest basket I remember would be about twenty — but they 

 were all good-sized fisb. Tupongs used to reach Lake Purrum- 

 bete (Manifold's), near Camperdown, when the outlet was 

 open, in thousands, and breed there. In fact, there are plenty 

 tbere now. Some years ago a flood-gate was placed in the 

 outlet, and sometimes they are enclosed for two years or more. 

 I endeavoured, some two years since, to get the Fisheries and 

 Game Department to try them in Lake Wemlouivr. l-lallarat, 

 or some similar lake, but without success." [This paragraph 

 has been held over from previous issues owing to pressure on 

 space. — Ed. Vict, Nat.] 



