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THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



additions to the flora of Victoria, and altogether about 600 

 specimens. In insects I did little or nothing, as I was too early, 

 and my time was too short. 



Appended is a list of such plants collected as Baron von 

 Mueller considers to be worthy of special notice ; and those 

 marked with an asterisk are, in my opinion, well worthy of 

 cultivation : — 



LIST OF PLANTS CONSIDERED TO BE RARE. 

 Those marhed * are ivortliy of cultivation. 



* Acacia farinosa, v. glabra 



* ,, rigens v. tenuior 



* ,, obliqua 

 *Adenanthos terminalis 

 *Boronia filifolia 



* ,, coerulea, v. alba 

 * Brachyloma ericoides 



Choretrum glomeratum 

 Cryptandrct vexillifera 



,, subochreata 



Chorizandra euodis 



* Didymotheca pleiococca 



*Daviesia pectinata 



* ,, brevifolia 



*Diuris palustris 



*Dam2nera rosmarinifolia 



*M'iostemon lepidotus, var. 

 LepilfBna australis 

 LeptoTneria aphylla 



*Melaleuca Wilsonii 



* Pidtencea prostrata 

 Santalmn Persicarium 



*Styphelia costata 



* ,, Woodsii 



* ,, adscendens 

 Toxanthus Miielleri 



* Templetonia Mnelleri 

 *Xerotes jiincea 



We are pleased to notice that Mr. W. E. Matthews, F.C.S., 

 F.L.S., and a member of the F.N.C. of Victoria, has been 

 appointed director of the new School of Mines, at Maryborough, 

 Victoria. 



The Largest Tree in the World. — In a letter to iheAj-gus, 

 dated i6th January, Mr. David Boyle, of Forest Hill, Nuna- 

 wading, states that a eucalyptus tree (probably E. amygdalind), 

 growing in the ranges not 25 miles from Melbourne, has recently 

 been measured and photographed by himself and Mr. N. J. Caire, 

 a member of the F.N.C, and found to be 466 feet high, with a 

 circumference 4 feet from the ground of 81 feet, and at the base 

 of 114 feet. The tree was measured by him some ten years 

 previously, before it lost its top, when it was 525 feet high. Some 

 fine photographs of other large Victorian trees were exhibited at 

 the Centennial Exhibition, but none approached near to the 

 dimensions of this giant of the forest. 



English Note. — In a recent letter from Mr. T. A. Forbes- 

 Leith to the honorary secretary, he mentions that Pallas's sand 

 grouse had migrated to Britain in great numbers last season, its 

 real habitat being the deserts of Central Asia. Mr. Leith also 

 forwarded for the club's library photographs of drawings of the 

 great extinct birds, the dodo and the great auk. 



