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5. Panda Maconelli, Reeve. — Several living specimens obtained 



in dead wood under logs. 



6. Stenogyra Tuckeri, Pfr. — This usually common shell was 



very scantily represented. 



7. Vertigo, gp. — Under loose bark on gum trees growing near 



the river bank. 



8. Pupina Wilcoxi, Cox. — Abundant under logs. 



* Notes — 



Mucuna gigantea, D.C. 



This plant is one of the commonest climbers in the Cabool- 

 ture scrubs, and seems to prefer the stinging tree (Laportea 

 gigas) for its support. Its large trifoliate leaves, and loose 

 corymb of pale greenish flowers on long pendulous peduncles, 

 readily distinguish it. The bark is said to be medicinal. 



Acacia plagiophylla, F. v. M. 



Reported in flower from Humpybong, but found here for 

 the first time in fruit by the Field Naturalists. It is one of 

 the most beautiful wattles in Southern Queensland, with its 

 semi-orbicular prickly phyllodes, its pale globular flower' heads, 

 and its broad, curved, stipitate pods. 



Thelymitra ixoides, Sfn. 



A terrestrial orchid with ovoid underground tubers. 

 Flowers blue, sepals and petals equal and spreading, hood 

 crowned with fringed lobes. Found here for the first time by 

 the F. N. Section. 



Acrostiohum aureum, Linn. 



Growing in mud on the banks of the tidal Caboolture 

 River. In many young plants the fronds consisted of a single 

 pinna only, others were pinnate throughout and 3ft, high. 

 Sterile, veins oblique, numerous, reticulate. 

 Nitella diffusa, Al. Br. 



A genus resembling Chara but differing in the nucule 

 (female organ) having a crown of 10 cells instead of 5, and in 

 its filaments being without a carbonate of lime encrustation. 

 Verrucaria picea, Shirley (sp. nov.) 



Thallus gelatinous when moist, sub-leprose when dry, 



