120 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Kimber, of Aldinga, by whom it was collected and kindly for- 

 warded to me for examination, together with many other 

 interesting forms from the same locality. This species is in all 

 probability the same as that recorded by the late Professor Ralph 

 Tate in his hst of Aldinga fossils as Niso, sp. (aff. I^. psila), for it 

 does resemble that species in some respects. From JViso psila, 

 T. -Woods, the present species differs in its much flatter whorls, 

 its more regular taper, and its proportionally greater narrowness, 

 its flatter base and much smaller and narrower umbilicus,, and its 

 more sigmoidal variceal development. 



Victorian Plants. — Some errors in the naming of Victorian 

 plants occur in recent Naturalists which I should like to have the 

 opportunity of correcting. In the March number (vol. xxii., p. 

 1 86) Dr. Sutton, in his interesting paper, "A Botanical Collector 

 in the Mallee," mentions an introduced poppy as Pa-paver 

 incisa, which, after correspondence with the author, I find should 

 be P. hyhridum. In the same page Bertya oleifolia is men- 

 tioned ; this should be B. mitchelli. The former is not found in 

 Victoria ; the name is wrongly included in the " Key to Victorian 

 Plants," and has been corrected in the " Census." With regard 

 to Prof. Ewart's paper in the June Naturalist (vol. xxiii., p. 42), 

 '' On Certain Supposed New Australian Plants," Arenaria 

 axillaris is, I think, a Stellaria, and referable to a variety of 

 Stellaria glauca mentioned in the " Flora Australiensis." I 

 collected a number of specimens near the peat swamp at 

 Dimboola referred to, which are all varieties of *S'. glauca. 

 Regarding Triglochin turriftra, when this name was originally 

 published as new by Mr. Luehmann I came to the conclusion 

 that it must be T. calcitraim. Hook., and forwarded specimens to 

 him, accompanied by a letter of Baron von Muller's, in which 

 the latter identified the specimens as T. calcitrapa, and new for 

 Victoria. This was acknowledged by Mr. Luehmann, who 

 evidently omitted to correct the Herbarium records. With 

 reference to Mr. A. G. Campbell's new records of Kangaroo 

 Island plants, on page 54 of the same Naturalist (June, 1906), 

 I would point out that Bartlingia sessiliflora is synonymous with 

 Laxmannia sessiliflora, and Schyus nodosus with Isolepis nodosa, 

 and both are mentioned in Tate's " Flora of South Australia " 

 as occurring on the island. — F. M. Reader, Casterton. 



Iguana Eggs in White-Ants' Nest. — Mr. W. H. Ferguson 

 has forwarded me, from the Dunolly district, three Iguana eggs, 

 together with portions of a Termites' or White-Ants' nest in which 

 they were found. He says that when first found the eggs were 

 " smoking," and were quite moist, probably from the heat deve- 

 loped by the Termites in the nest. The question, however, arises, 

 how do the Iguanas manage to place their eggs in the nest, and 

 how do the young Iguanas get out when hatched ? — A. E. Kitson. 



