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scented mauve-coloured flowers of Tefratheca ericifolia. Mr. J. 

 Gr. O. Tepper, P.L.S., here directed the attention of members 

 to a curious tuft-like proliferation found growing on a eucalypt, 

 and said that the part of the tree above this growth subse- 

 quently dies. He stated that the cause of it was at present 

 unknown, but that it was well worthy of investigation by 

 scientists, pointing out that to the successful discoverer dis- 

 tinction was almost certain. The carnivorous sundew (Brosera 

 Whiftakeri) was rather plentiful. The following ferns were 

 gathered, viz. : — Adiantum cBtJiiopicum (maiden hair), Cheilanthes 

 tenuifolia (the common rock fern), Lomaria discolor, and L. 

 Icmceolata, Grammitis onUcefolia, and G. leptophylla. It was 

 now considered time to turn back, and not wishing to scale 

 the precipitous hills by which they were surrounded, the party 

 determined to return by the way they had come, a few members 

 examining the creek en route in search of mosses, &c. Amongst 

 other flowers, not previously mentioned, which were collected 

 were Ccesia vittafa. Gooaenia gemculata, and Stackhousia Unari- 

 Jblia. The excursionists, each laden with floral treasures, 

 returned from Magill by the 5.15 tram. 



PlFTEENTH EXCTJESION — SaTUEDAT, OCTOBER 10, 1885. 



Highbury. 

 On Saturday, October 10, about thirty ladies and gentlemen 

 proceeded to Highbury, starting from town at 1.40 p.m., in one 

 of Hill & Co.'s coaches. On arrival at Highbury a start was at 

 once made under the guidance of Prof. Tate, F.Gr.S., P.L.S. 

 into the scrub to the south of the road. After walking about 

 100 yards an excavation was reached, and this being a con- 

 venient place to point out the geological features of the 

 locality a short stoppage was made. Having disposed of some 

 formal business, Professor Tate addressed the members, and 

 stated that they were on a little patch of scrub which had lost 

 some of its characteristics by over-cropping. This scrub land 

 w^as very limited in its extent, and was a remnant of a consider- 

 able sheet that extended all along the foot-hills of the main 

 range, and was seen in stronger force at Grolden Grove, to the 

 north of which still larger patches were met with. These 

 patches were generally recognised externally by the sanddrift 

 that surrounded and covered them, and beneath which the 

 rock was seen to be mostly of a soft mottled sandstone in hori- 

 zontal beds, as in that particular pit near which they were 

 standing. A few yards from this was a stone quarry showing 

 the fundamental rocks lying at high angles, almost perpen- 

 dicular in fact. This dissimilarity in inclination served to 



