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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Fred. Turner exhibited botanical specimens, comprising 

 Rottboellia formosa R.Br., collected near Collarenebri in north- 

 western New South Wales. The seeds of this North Australian 

 and North Queensland grass had no doubt been introduced into 

 New South Wales by travelling stock. Several species peculiar 

 to the northern part of Australia had, at various times, been 

 collected on the camping-reserves and stock-routes in the north- 

 west, or adjacent to them, and forwarded to him for identifica- 

 tion, but he did not regard these plants as indigenous to New 

 South Wales. — Panicum glabrum Gaud. (syn. Paspalum ambi- 

 guum DC), collected by him first in 1904 and again in 1908, at 

 Vaucluse, near Sydney. In the interval this Indian grass had 

 spread very rapidly on the Vaucluse estate, and was now quite 

 acclimatised. — Lysurus australiensis C. & M., a remarkable 

 fungus, forwarded from Woolwich, Parramatta River. 



Mr, Fletcher showed germinating seeds of the Fire-Tree, or 

 Christmas-Tree of W T est Australia (Nuytsia floribunda R.Br.), 

 one of the only two Australian terrestrial representatives of the 

 N.O. Loranthacece, at interesting stages of development; and he 

 intimated that, when the specimens were more advanced, he 

 hoped to be able to show them again, for comparison with a series 

 illustrating the germination and early growth-stages of the 

 Eastern terrestrial member of the Order, Atkinsonia ligustrina 

 F.v.M., which presented some noteworthy differences in regard 

 to both the number and the behaviour of the cotyledons. 



