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favourite health resorts, near the famous Jenolan Caves; “it is 
surrounded by well-wooded mountain ranges and moist flat- 
day w 
Ben asantly spent in the National Park of New South Wales ; here 
Hemitrichia Serpula was found on the dead stump of a Grass Tree 
(Xanthorrhea sp.), quite three feet from the ground, and Diachea 
seta hips and Phesahan viride var. incanum on decaying tw wigs ; 
but this place was not rich in Mycetozoa, probably owing to the 
gritty sane of the centibbiig rocks canes rapid drainage and 
not favouring the accumulation of hum 
n Queensland we visited Nenbonr, in the Blackall er 
fifty miles from Brisbane, vaste a e route dense jungles 
sugar 
nsiderable extent of uid wag covered with Queens- 
land's sreatent pest, thie "Opuntia, or Prickly Pear. On its dead 
trolley ride through sugar-cane fields took us up the Nambour 
Gorge to the top of the Blackall Mountains. Here the trees were 
rich in epiphytic ferns and orchids. Badhamia utricularis was 
leathery fungus Schizophyllum commune; in all probability the 
plasmodium had fed on the fungus before retiring to the grass to 
ass into its reproductive stage, but no trace of it was found on 
either the Schizophyllum or the bark. On this spatter I also 
collected Dictydiwm cancellatum, Tubifera ferruginosa, Hemitrichia 
clavata, and Dianema corticatum. Near Enoggara, a suburb o 
Brisbane, in tropical bush, were found jo splendens, 
Arcyria incarnata, and several species of Tric 
e meeting of the British Association in Atetralin ended on 
th, and the members will long remember the kind 
continent. — this somewhat str tee period it was restful 
ea consumed by termites, = ay are on the high ground 
ling Ww: ga sega nakes, centipedes and meal aie 
