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markings continually picked up; the small bright yellow, jelly-like 
Guepinia Spaitularia, was plentiful; many species of Clavaria 
were plentiful, C. botrytis, C. aurea, etc.; a white jelly-like Tremelia 
which can be eaten when fresh; the net puff ball, Tleodictyon gracile 
which is eaten by the New Zealanders; common puff bali, Lycoperdon 
gemmatum; two bright red and a yellow cup-like Peziza; Leotia 
lubrica had the most peculiar appearance of any found, bright 
yellow, semi-transparent stipe, brownish yellow pileus; an uncommon 
Hypoxylon; also very many micro-fungi brought the number up 
close to a hundred distinct species for the day. 
The two members out on the previous day, found a fine patch of 
the ordinary mushroom, Agaricus campestris, one of which was 
quite six inches in diameter, growing on a roadside. 
The geologist of the party, the Rev. A. W. Cresswell, who spent 
the day at the Cave Hill limestone quarries, furnishes the following 
account of his experiences:— 
Went to the limestone quarries, about half a mile S.H. of 
Lilydale; being only in search of fossils this time, did not make 
accurate stratigraphical observations. The quarry, however, is well 
known to be in a limestone, granular, crystalline, marble formation, 
about 100 feet thick, interstratified with the upper Silurian rocks, 
(sandstones, schists, &c.,) of the district. It is not thought to be 
very persistent or to extend any great distance along its strike 
(which is nearly meridional as usual with the Silurian,) but is believed 
to be more or less lenticular and to thin out at no great distance 
north and south. ‘The prevailing colour is cream-coloured, but some 
of the strata are of a ferruginous red and others of a bluish grey. 
The dip is about 45 degrees east, but exact statigraphical details will be 
found in the Geological Survey Report for 1855-56. I had never 
seen any fossils in it before, except afew Favosites (Millipore corals) 
here and there where the surface is weathered, but this last time 
succeeded in getting the following fossils, viz.:—Several specimens 
of a sub-genus of Turbo, one of them being as large as a good sized 
recent Turbo undulatus. The form appears to me to be close to 
Euchelus, there being no umbilicus or the columella showing trace 
of being toothed, it is very like our common recent Huchelus 
canaliculatus, but has finer and more numerous lire. The nearest 
shell toit in Murchison’s “ Siluria” appears to be Cyclonema coralliz 
of the Upper Ludlow, with which it is perhaps identical. Several 
specimens of Murchisonia apparently corresponding to M. corallit 
of the Upper Ludlow as figured in Murchison’s “Siluria.” A 
Bellerophon, which I do not know the specific name of, and will 
have to show to Prof. McCoy for exact identification; and several 
specimens of the common Upper Silurian species of Favosites called 
Favosites aspera, (one of which is sent herewith); a single joint of 
Crinoid stem, probably an Actinocrinus. A mammillary stalactite 
