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Mr. Fred Turner exhibited, and offered observations upon 

 various botanical specimens comprising Salicornia tenuis Benth., 

 a native saltbush forwarded from Wongalea Station, Gunbar Dis- 

 trict, with the report that it Lad recently sprung up, covering an 

 area of six hundred acres; Grevillea arenaria R.Br., var. canescens t 

 from the Bathurst district, where it was said to be greedily eaten 

 by sheep; and Panicum tenuissimum Benth., collected at Rose 

 Bay, S} 7 dney, the most southerly station so far recorded for this 

 grass. 



The Secretary, on behalf of Dr. T. L. Bancroft of Brisbane, 

 exhibited a named collection of Queensland mosquitoes, comprising 

 representatives of twenty-four out of the thirt3 r -two species 

 described in the recently published " List of the Mosquitoes of 

 Queensland, &c. "(Annals of the Queensland Museum, No.8 ; 1908); 

 and he stated that, at Dr. Bancroft's request, the specimens were 

 to be presented to the Macleay Museum, to supplement the 

 collection which the late Mr. Skuse had studied. 



Mr. A. G. Hamilton sent for exhibition a very complete and 

 interesting series of germinating seeds and young seedlings of 

 one of the Mistletoes (Loranthus exocarpi Behr), forwarded to 

 him by Mr. 0. C. Brittlebank of Myrniong, Victoria. 



Mr. Fletcher showed a series of lantern slides prepared from 

 photographs of germinating seeds, and young seedlings of various 

 species of Loranthus; and illustrating the arrangement (into 

 two groups, each of these again divisible into two sections) which 

 the characters of the species studied from the life-history point 

 of view, suggested. As fruits of L. dictyophlebus, L. alyxifolius, 

 L. grandibracteus, and some of the little known brush and scrub 

 Loranths had not been procurable hitherto, the arrangement 

 indicated would probably require modification; and further know- 

 ledge was desirable before entering into particulars. 



