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AUSTRALASIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF 
SCIENCE. 
Mr. H. Tryon, the representative of the Society at the 
preliminary meeting recently held in Sydney, in connection 
with the projected Australasian Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, read his report of the proceedings on that 
occasion. 
After some reference, made by different members, to 
the little accomplished, in the direction of the formation of 
an Association, at this preliminary meeting, it was unani- 
mously resolved that the report be received and printed, 
and that a vote of thanks be accorded to Mr. Tryon for the 
manner in which he had represented the Society.—[ Ved. 
Appendix. | 
The following notes were read :— 
‘FASCIATION IN BOUVARDIA TRIPHYLLA, Sa/zsb.,’’ by 
F. M. Bailey, F.L.S., Colonial Botanist—Perhaps there 
is not another part of the globe where plant fasciation is 
more abundant than in Australia. The attention of the 
gardener is continually attracted to it, and in our shrubs 
one often meets with stems, and especially those of climb- 
ing plants, flattened out to several inches by this curious 
abnormal growth. But it is seldom, if we pass over the 
case of the garden cockscomb, that these forms add to the 
beauty of the flower or plant. 
A very curious and beautiful form of fasciation has just 
now occurred in the garden of Mr. Thos. Burns, one of the 
Brisbane florists. One of the stems of a garden variety of 
Bouvardia triphylla, Sa/csb., has flattened out about 4+in. 
wide, thin and prominently grooved. The leaves, instead 
of the usual three, are on this stem in close whorls of from 
8 to 12; in form a little smaller but resembling the normal 
state. At each whorl of leaves isa whorl of over 22 flowers 
normal as to size, form, and colours. These whorls, near 
the extremity of the stem, are so close together as to form 
a large, dense corymb of flowers, but the most curious part 
of this abnormal growth is that the shoot terminates in 
one large single bloom, the calyx of which is flattened out 
