736 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Froggatt showed a very complete named series of Fruit-flies, 

 representing sixteen different species of Dacus (Fam. Trypetidce), 

 including examples of the new species bred from larvae in oranges 

 .at Tuggerah Lakes, N.S.W., described in Mr. Coquillet's paper. 



Mr. Cheel exhibited, and offered observations upon, a very 

 interesting collection of fungi, comprising examples of Puccinia 

 hypochceridis Oud., on ffypochceris glabra L., from Penshurst 

 (E. Cheel; October, 1908), a species which is common in 

 Victoria upon H. radicata L., and is known from Wagga, 

 N.S.W., on the same host, but whose association with H. glabra 

 had been recorded previously only from Dimboola, Vic, and 

 Brisbane, Q : Mycenastrum corium Guersent, from Goulburn 

 (E. Cheel; on the ground, April, 1908) and Ryde (D. S. North; 

 May, 1908): Puccinia distincta McAlp., "Daisy-Rust," very 

 common this year on Bellis perennis L., at Sydney (E. Cheel; 

 1908), and Leichhardt (J. L. Boorman; August, 1908) : and an 

 undetermined Rust upon the leaves of Rhubarb (Rheum rhapon- 

 iiCMWiL), apparently not previously noticed. 



Mr. Hedley, on behalf of Mr. A. MacCulloch, exhibited an 

 admirable series of stereoscopic views, illustrating the vegetation 

 of Lord Howe Island. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited photographs, specimens, and seedlings 

 illustrating the germination and growth-stages of Atkinsonia 

 ligustrina F.v. M., and Nuytsia floribunda R.Br., (N.O. Loran- 

 thacece); and, by the kindness of Dr. J. B. Cleland and Mr. B. H. 

 Woodward, Perth, W.A., on behalf of the Committee of the 

 West Australian Museum, an attractive series of photographs of 

 ilowering-branches, individual trees (up to 9 feet 6 inches in girth, 

 at 4 feet above ground) and groups of trees of A 7 uytsia, the 

 Christmas-Tree, Cabbage-Tree, or Fire-Tree of West Australia. 



