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This, on examination, we identify as Caltlia introloba, the only 

 representative of the genus in the cohony. It has no petals in the 

 strict sense of the term, the five-eight sepals forming what we 

 generally regard as the flowers. The leaves of this interesting little 

 j)lant are very peculiar. They are three-lobed ; the two lower 

 divisions turned inwards and upwards, grow erect in front of the 

 larger lobe. In full bloom, the flowers, pure as the white snow, are 

 extremely attractive, especially when it is considered that no other 

 flowering plant is to be seen on this particular aspect of the mountain, 

 at the elevation now attained." 



" On subsaline flats, among other small weeds will be found a 

 little plant with grass-like leaves, minute flowers, and a long 

 ta|3ering fruit. This is the little mouse-tail, Myosurus minimus. 

 It has a wide range on the basaltic plains of the Hoj)kins, the 

 subsaline flats on the outskirts of the Grampians and Pyrenees, and 

 along the course of most of the streams in the Wimmera district." 



The author concluded his pa|)er by describing the two Victorian 

 species of Clematis, C. microphylla, abundant near the sea-coast, 

 with its "beautiful festoons of creamy white flowers hanging from 

 bashes and the lower branches of small trees, and C. ariotata, of the 

 forest country, with large white flowers and leaves which burn 

 the tongue." 



01^ A SPECIES OF FRESH-WATER ALGA FROM 



IfEAR BERWICK, 



By H. Watts. 



(Read March 10th, 1884.— x\bstract.) 



The specimens were found in the Kardinia Creek, three miles from 

 Berwick, in ISTo vember, and had been- cultivated by Mr. Watts 

 until they produced oospores in March. x\t the time of collecting, 

 the water was flowing slowly, ard was clear, and free from the green 

 Jliasses of Algae usual in the waters near Melbourne. The Alg£B 

 was an Oedogonium, and Mr. Watts considers it Oe tenellum. It 

 is much smaller than Oe capillare, which he has found in Fitzi-oy 

 Gardens, or Oe vestitatum, in a stream at Little Brighton, The 

 ■oospores were quite globose, and of a bright orange colour. Mr, Watts 

 exhibited under the microscope the Oedogonium in fructification, 

 and also the following Algge collected on the same occasion, viz.: — 

 Micrasterias crenata, Pleurotenium clavatum, Closteriuni Leiblinii, 

 C. turgidum, Desmidium quadrangulatum and Zygnema porticallis. 



THE OBCHIDE^ OP VICTORIA. 



BT"nT""°^FBENCH. 



(Second Paper.) 

 In the whole globe there is scarcely a region where a flower will 

 grow at all, but an Orchid of some kind ma,y be found. We do not 



