NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Etheridge exhibited the fossils described in his paper. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited a collection of about sixty species of 

 plants obtained by Mr. Froggatt in the neighbourhood of Derby, 

 King's Sound, N. W. Australia, which Baron von Mueller had 

 kindly determined. In this collection, which Mr. Macleay has 

 generously presented to the Society's herbarium, was the specimen 

 of Ptilotus Macleayi described in Baron von Mueller's paper. Mr. 

 Fletcher also stated that, with the plants collected at our various 

 excursions, together with those presented by the Hon. W. Macleay, 

 Mr. Whitelegge (fifty named species of Hepaticce), and several 

 other gentlemen, we had now the nucleus of a fair herbarium, and 

 that he would be glad to receive specimens of the rarer plants of 

 the County of Cumberland, as well as of plants from other localities. 



Mr. Deane pointed out that a specimen of Dodoncea polyzyga 

 in the collection of plants from Derby, exhibited by Mr. Fletcher, 

 had bisexual flowers in contradistinction to the common species 

 which are dicecious. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited specimens of a fungus {Xyhstroma 

 giganieum, Fries,) from the wood of the spotted-gum [Eucalyptus 

 maculata), but he stated that he had also seen it in the concentric 

 circles of the wood of the Blood-wood {E. corymbosa). This 

 fungus is remarkably like chamois-leather in appearance and 

 texture, and has already been recorded by Rev. Dr. Woolls as 

 occurring in the wood of the Red-Ironbark (E. siderophloia). 



]\Ir. Maiden also showed a collection of specimens of fifty rare 

 plants from the neighbourhood of Milpai-inka, collected by Mr. 

 Baeuerlen, among which were a number not hitherto recorded from 

 N. S. Wales. Especially worthy of note were a new Grevillea, G. 

 Kennedyana, F.v.M., and Hakea lorea, R. Br Mr. Maiden stated 

 that the collection would be left at the Hall for a week for the 

 inspection of members. 



