The South Australian Naturalist. 
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SOUTH AUSTRAUAN AQUARIIM SOCIETY. 
Towards the end of January members of the Society spent 
three days In camp at Port Willunga. They were fortunate in 
that tides were ver}^ low each day so that the party was able to 
spend a great parr of the time on the reefs and to observe the 
many and varied forms of marine life found thereon. Anemones 
obtained on this occasion are now installed In Mr. Waite’s marine 
aquarium. Visits were also made to Peddlers Creek in the 
vicinity, and fresh-water fishes and other specimens were collected. 
The Society has been asked to install an aquarium at the 
forthcoming All-Australian Exhibition, and on February 10th a 
meeting was held for the purpose of arranging details of this 
exhibit. Mr. Vhiite announced that a larger space than was 
available for this purpose at the Peace Exhibition has been al- 
lotted, and it is hoped that an aquarium worthy of the interests 
of the Society will be erected. 
On February 14th members spent a pleasant afternoon in- 
specting Mr. R. T. Foster’s ponds and aquaria at the Grange; 
the Grange Creek was also visited tinder the guidance of Mr. 
Foster and towards the end of the afternoon tea was served by 
Mrs. Foster. The host and hostess were accorded a very hearty 
vote of thanks. 
HERBERl' M. HALE, Hon. Secretary. 
BOTANICAL NOTES. 
By Ernest H. Ising. 
Loraiith'us pendidns Sieb. 
In the “Flora of South Australia” (1) Mr. J. M. Black re- 
cords this species from onlv three localities, viz., Blackwood, Dis- 
mal Swamp (South East), and north of Broken Hill Railway line. 
I can now record this plant from Mount Lofty, where I have 
found it growing on Acacia melanoxylon. A. deciirreiis (planted) 
and Eucalyptus obliqua. I have collected It from several separate 
trees of Blackwood (the former host) in a distance of one mile 
along the main road at Stirling. I have discovered an interesting 
variation in the nuniber of flowers in each cymule in that, In all 
the above specimens, there are just as many series of fours as 
that of fives. Blakely (2), in the record of numerous specimens 
from all parts of Australia, onlt mentions the occurrence of four 
flowers in the cymule from one locality, viz., Mount Vincent, 
N.S.W. The four flowers were arranged thus: — Three in a row 
(with the central one sessile) and a lateral one. When the usual 
three flowers comprised the cymule thev formed, as it were, a 
triangle. 
