128 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



short hairs, thinly one-nerved dorsally, the terminating bristles 

 forming a pal^^ pappus-like fringe, almost as long as the fruit- 

 lets, not hooked. 



Among Australian species only H. glochidiata and H. 

 blepharocarpa have also fringed fruits ; but the first-mentioned 

 belongs to a different section of the genus, while H. blepharo- 

 carpa differs in annual root, compressed fruitlets fringed longi- 

 tudinally and with the lateral nerve almost straight. 



Mr. Tepper found also H. diantha in Kangaroo-Island, it 

 previously being known only from West Australia. The 

 variety acutiloba of H. hirta is, as pointed out by Mr. C. B. 

 Clarke, the H. Javanica (Thunberg dissert. II., 415, t. 3), which 

 name would rank as the oldest, if H. hirta should be specifically 

 inseparable. H. geranifolia has been traced to the Hawkes- 

 bury-River by the Rev. Dr. Woolls ; H. scutellifera was found 

 by me on mossy granite-rocks of the Porongerup- Ranges ; H. 

 trachycarpa occurs also on the Lachlan-River (H. Andrae) and 

 on the Finke-River (Rev. H. Kempe) ; H. diantha at the base 

 of Stirling's-Range, so also H. homolocarpa (F. v. M.). 



NOTES AND QUKRIES. 



I SHALL be glad of any information as to species of Amphibia 

 to be found in Victoria — Subscriber. 



Can members supply instances in which they have been eye- 

 witnesses of the destruction of snakes by the great brown king- 

 fisher or others of our birds ? — Hoplocephalus. 



Dr. Lucas has recently discovered a new and handsome 

 Lycsenid (blue) butterfly in Gippsland. 



A CORRESPONDENT of the Herald writes : — Mr. Dunn, of 

 Alexandra, caught a large cod in the Goulburn last week, and 

 on opening it found a large black snake in the stomach. 



Mr. J. Bracehridge Wilson, F.L.S., of Geelong, has 

 recently published a systematic list of the marine Algaj collected 

 by him, chiefly by dredging, at Port Phillip Heads and in 

 Western Port. Ttie number of species amounts to about 300. 

 Several were new to science, and appropriately indicate Mr. 

 Wilson's sponsorship. 



