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t. Nat. 

 XXXII. 



By Mr. C. Daley. — Pod of the Queensland Matchbox or 

 Leichhardt's Bean, Entada scandens, Benth., and pods of the 

 introduced Flower Fence or Royal Poinciana, Poinciana regia, 

 Bojer, both grown at Townsville, Queensland. 



By Mrs. Ernst. — Eight double petunia blooms raised from the 

 seed" of a single pod collected last season ; a bloom from the 

 parent plant, and one from a single fringed specimen growing 

 close to the latter, which has impressed the whole of the blooms 

 shown with its distinctive colour arrangement. Also the fol- 

 lowing wild-flowers, collected on the banks of the Darebin 

 Creek, Ivanhoe : — Correct speciosa, var. glabra, Rhagodia hastata, 

 Glycine clandestina, Myosotis suaveolens, and Tricoryne elatior. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — Two scale insects (coccids) new to 

 science — Mytilaspis subarmatus, Green, and Dactylopius circum- 

 datus, Green — from the Mallee, collected by Mr. J. E. Dixon. 



By Miss G. Nethercote. — Photograph of flowering growth of 

 Convolvulus erubescens. 



By Mr. E. E. Pescott, F.L.S. — Flowering sprays of the Robin 

 Redbreast-bush, Melaleuca laterita, Otto, Western Australia. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



The Dr. Hall Memorial Fund. — We desire to enlist the 

 help of all members of the Field Naturalists' Club and readers 

 of the Naturalist in making the Dr. Hall Memorial Fund adequate 

 for the purpose for which it is intended. An influential com- 

 mittee, representing the different institutions and societies in 

 which the late Dr. Hall was interested, has been appointed, and 

 donations may be senl to Dr. J. P. Wilson (hon. treasurer), 

 Melbourne University, Mr. J. II. Maiden, Botanic Gard 

 Sydney, or Professoi Baldwin Spencer, Biological School, Uni- 

 versity. The proposals ol the committee arc sel out in a 

 circular, which may be obtained from eithei ol the gentlemen 

 named, and we trusl there will be a prompl and ready response. 



A Fr] '.i-: Mushroom. A very singular mushroom was 

 recently forwarded to Mr. 1). Macdonald, ol the Argus, 1>\ 

 ( onstable Brown, ol Rosedale. It consisted ol three mushrooms 

 on top oi one another, and from the illustration in the Aus- 

 tralasian ol nth March put one in mind "l a cottage-loaf. 

 The low< i mushroom wa aboul -i\ in< lies a< ros . rathi 1 thi< L 

 with a thick tern, and growing in the natural position. 

 Reversed on top ol thi 1-. with the gills uppermost, 



growing from it, was a second mushroom alnvbsl as large, while 

 growing oul ol this, in the natural position, wa a third mush- 

 room, aboul three in* hes in di 



