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elevation 973 feet above sea level) they had scarcely commenced 
to bloom. Here was an object lesson in striking character almost 
compelling notice. The principal masses of bloom were furnished 
by two species of Acacia and two of Hakea, which we did not 
know the names of, and foolishly forgot to bring along specimens 
for identification. The lovely native Traveller’s Joy ( Clematis 
macrophylla) was just donning its starry wreaths, while Kennedya 
nigricans and K. prostrata and H ardenbergia comptoniana made 
glorious masses of contrasting colors, but these, beautiful as they 
are, do not appeal to me as does the almost heavenly blue of 
Leschenaullia biloba, one of the purest of blues on our landscape. 
Many more most beautiful genera such as Hovea, Pimelea , Chonzema 
and Hypocalymna were just commencing to open, and in a 
fortnight’s time would be worth the journey to see. We also 
found the season too early for the Orchideae, as we only saw a 
few early specimens of Diuris, Pterostylis, Prasophyllum, and 
Caladenia. A few specimens of the Pattersonia limbata, Family 
Iricleae, we observed among hosts of other species and varieties 
not enumerated, as also the two Kangaroo Paws (Anigozanthos 
humilis and manglesii) . 
I should like to suggest that Botany forms one of the objects 
of each of our excursions, as I think it would be of great scientific 
value if we could register the times of flowering, if not of the whole, 
at any rate of the Orchideae. Also, can we not arrange to have 
an exhibition of wild flowers alone, arranged scientifically, and 
set apart one night for such during this and each succeeding year ? 
I am sure you will agree that it would be of the greatest interest 
to us all, particularly so, if, as I say, the specimens were arranged 
in scientific sequence, with their names attached. 
H. M. Giles. 
ARMADALE, 4TH SEPTEMBER, 1909. 
The members attending proceeded by the 1.20 p.m. tiain to 
Armadale, on the Perth-Bunbury railway, a distance of 19 miles. 
Mr. Coombe’s quarry, the objective of the visit, is close to the 
boundary of the township, and about one-third of a mile south- 
east from the railway station, the route being along William 
Street to the main Perth-Bunbury road, and thence about nine 
chains along the tramline from the brick kilns to the quarry. 
The railway station is 179 feet above sea-level and the quarry 
is about 100 feet higher by barometer. The quarry, which was 
commenced about seven years ago, is an excavation into the slope 
of the Darling Range, the granite outcropping a few chains further 
up the hill. The quarry face has a height of about 70 feet. The 
material that is being quarried consists largely of a dark slate 
which strikes 4’ and dips 65’ west. (See plate No. 1, Fig. 1.) The 
