52 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 
plant,) any little trouble bestowed upon it. Found also in Tasmania, 
and was hitherto confined to that colony. 
P. intricatum, (C. Stuart in Herb. F. Mueller.) 
A slender plant with the habit of P. fimbriatum. Flowers brown 
or pale yellow, with the labellum purple. 
This curious little plant which was found and exhibited at this 
Club first by my son, is very much like P. archer?, so much so that 
it is difficult for anyone excepting a thoroughly good botanist to 
determine them. It was found on top of the dry sand-hills at 
Frankston, and, of course, at once pronounced by its finder to bea 
new orchid, the usual reference to the Baron was resorted to, with the 
cheerful result, a well-known Tasmanian plant but new for Victoria, 
(or at least for the district in which it was found,) but very 
interesting, and thus the finder was rewarded for his perseverance, 
although somewhat disappointed. I have no reason to describe this 
sp. further, as the novelties found by other members of this Club, 
and by myself since the Club’s inauguration, have been so ably 
worked up by the Baron in the columns of the “S. S. Record,” 
Pharmaceutical Society’s Journal, and the ‘“S. Naturalist,’ that 
further remarks will be I think unnecessary. To grow it, (to 
complete the collection in pots,) it should be planted in a shallow 
pot of sand and gravelly loam, and should not be kept too moist 
otherwise the tubers are apt to decay. Great care should be taken 
with these smaller kinds, that good and efficient drainage is always 
seen to, as well as care as to keeping the tubers while at rest, a 
matter which I shall again refer to before closing my paper. 
Flowers in January and even later. Found also in Tasmania. 
This will conclude the sp. of the genus Prasophyllum, the next in 
order being Microtis, which will form the subject of my next 
number. 
NOTE. 
By approval of the honorable Graham Berry, Chief Secretary, a new 
edition of Baron Von Mueller’s volume on “Select Plants for 
Industrial Culture and Naturalisation,” is now passing at the 
Government Printing Office through the press. It will appear 
towards the end of the year, and thus available also for use at the 
Colonial Exhibition in London. This will be the Sixth edition in 
the English language, and it will be still further enlarged than the 
American one, which appeared last year at Mr. George Davis’ 
great establishment in Detroit. 
