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birds. The paper was illustrated with some very striking lantern 

 slides, showing the nesting and flight of the various birds. 



The president and Messrs. Campbell and Keartland con- 

 gratulated the author on the success of his efforts with the camera 

 and the interesting details recorded. 



3. By Mr. J. G. Luehmann, F.G.S., entitled " Description of a 

 New Lobelia, from Western Australia." 



The author described and named as Lobelia toppii a plant 

 recently received from the Murchison River, W.A., and exhibited 

 specimens of the flowers, which were remarkable for their fresh- 

 ness, though picked some seven weeks previously. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTE. 



Mr, C. French, jun., contributed a note calling attention to the 

 great quantities of beetles and other insects recently washed up 

 on the beach between Sandringham and Mordialloc. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. E. Anderson. — Series of the Emerald Moth, Euchloris 

 vertumnaria, from Box Hill. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — Five species of Quail eggs ; also rare 

 orchid, Orthoceras strictum, from Cheltenham, collected 11/12/00. 



By Messrs. Fulton and Grant. — Crustacea, sub-order Macrura, 

 Axius plectrorhynchus, Strahl, taken in rotten sandstone off 

 Beaumaris, Port Phillip, at a depth of 10 to 20 feet ; not previously 

 recorded from Victoria. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — A live specimen of the rare shell Conus 

 segravei, from Western Port. 



By Mr. D. Le Souef. — Sets of eggs of Brown Quail, Syncecus 

 ■australis, from Western Australia, Victoria, Central Queensland, 

 Northern Territory, and Tasmania. 



By Mr. J. G. Luehmann. — Lobelia toppii, new to science, from 

 Western Australia. 



By Mr. A. J. Relph. — Photograph of nest of Magpie, built 

 entirely of wire, weighing 20 oz., from Stawell ; also photograph 

 of Southern Stone Plover from life. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF VICTORIA. 



No. X. 

 By F. M. Reader, F.R.H.S. (Communicated by G. Coghill.) 



{Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, \0th Sept., 1900.) 



Stipa eremophila, sp. nov., F. M. Reader. 



A rather slender grass of 1 y 2 to more than 2^ feet. Culms 

 tufted, smooth, terete or somewhat compressed below the nodes, 



