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the Palaeontologist, Mr. F. Chapman, A.L.S., while the south 

 gallery is devoted to the foreign collection, including a number of 

 interesting casts of the larger extinct animals. 



The work of arranging the reference collections in their new 

 quarters is being pushed on as rapidly as possible. The entomo- 

 logical collection is already available to students and others 

 interested in this branch, while it is hoped that most of the other 

 collections will be rearranged in the course of the next few 

 months. 



The last three months have been a busy time for the hon. 

 Director and the Curators (Messrs. J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S., and 

 R. H. Walcott, F.G.S.), and the display is now a most creditable 

 one, and compares more than favourably with any in the world. 



NEW VARIETIES OF VICTORIAN PLANTS. 



At the February meeting of the Club dried specimens of new 

 varieties of the following Victorian plants were exhibited by Mr. 

 F. M. Reader :— 



Brachycome ciliaris, Less., var. subintegra. New variety. 



Brachycome goniocarpa, Sond. and F. v, M., var. longiscapa. 

 New variety. 



Calythrix tetragona. Lab. A form with no or minute hair-like 

 awns. 



Cardamine hirsuta, L. A form with the pinnae of the leaves of 

 various breadth and toothed or pinnatifid. 



Cassinia aculeata, R. Br. A form with long leaves. 



Cassinia aculeata, R. Br., var. angustata. New variety. 



Centrolepis polygyna, Hier. A small and densely csespitose 

 form. 



Convolvulus erubescens, Sims. A form with the leaves sub- 

 hastate or cordate, entire or pinnate, lobed or pinnatifid, with 

 long pedicels. 



Gnaphalium luteo-album, L , var. minor. New variety. 



Helichrysum apiculatum, D.C. A form with margins of leaves 

 revolute, and additional short branches with small leaves in the 

 axil of each leaf (abnormal state). 



Lepidium ruderale, L. A form with the flowers subcorymbose. 



Poa csespitosa, Forst., var. flexuosa. New variety. 



Scirpus riparius, L., var. nanus. New variety. 



Stipa acrociliata, F. M. Reader, var. minor. New variety. 



Styphelia costata, F. v. M., var. amplexans. New variety. 



Vittadinia australis, A. Rich. A viscid form. 



Vittadinia australis, A. Rich., var. platycephala. New variety. 



