ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. lix. 
Mr. CHEEL stated that the fungus resembled Blackfellow’s 
Bread, a specimen of which he exhibited. 
Mr. STEPHEN’S exhibit consisted of earthy matter, with 
mycelium interwoven with it, believed to be that of Poly- 
porus tumulosus. The sporophores were very rare. 
Dr. CLELAND pointed out there was an essential difference 
between the false sclerotium of the exhibit and the true 
Blackfellow’s Bread; the false sclerotium was a mass of 
sand and mycelium, with a thin crust of felted mycelium. 
He had only found two sporophores of this Polyporus 
tumulosus, these occurring about the autumn after heavy 
rain, 
Mr. STEPHEN said that the Superintendent of the Narara 
Station regarded the soil in which the fungi occur as 
infertile. 
Dr. CLELAND stated that the phenomenon might be 
similar to the “‘Fairy Ring,” infertility being due to soil 
moisture being prevented from reaching the surface. 
Mr. A.D. OLE exhibited a specimen of Alyxia buxifolia 
from Western Australia. An infusion of the leaves was 
very commonly used by camel drivers, and on the Western 
Australian gold-fields as a cure for dysentery. The leaves 
were supposed to contain coumarin. An infusion of the 
bark had been used and patented as a “‘cure-all’’ on the 
south coast of New South Wales in 1888, and called the 
“* Physic of the Sea.”’ | 
Mr. CHEEL advised caution in using the plant internally, 
as many of the Apocynaceze contained a milky fluid of a 
poisonous nature. 
The report of the Sub-committee in devising experiments 
upon the ‘‘Inheritance of Fecundity in Fowls,’’ was then 
discussed. These experiments, which were outlined in 
