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was out, but. then it is a plant of inde¬ 
pendent spirit, and flowers when it pleases 
without regard to season. The two green- 
hoods mentioned above, P. praecox and 
P. coneinna, grew near one another, and, 
as usual where this occurs, hybridisation 
was evident, as intermediate forms were 
observed. 
Ferns were few and of the commonest 
sorts. Mosses, too, seemed to be reduced 
to a few hardy species, but fungi were 
varied and numerous. A large toadstool- 
formed plant, bull and scaly above, yellow 
ami porous below, Strobilomyces ann- 
naeceps, was fairly numerous. It afford¬ 
ed interest, because when broken the flesh 
immediately turned a deep blue. The 
same tiling occurs in some of our Boleti. 
It is due to the oxidising of certain 
chron logons present in the flesh. In a 
gully, whose name would lead one to as¬ 
sume that it yearned for close depend¬ 
ence on the human, we found numerous 
specimens of an underground fungus 
quite d'stincit from any yet discovered, 
and winch will probably be described in 
a paper to be submitted to the Royal 
Society. 
The plants in the swamp were made 
up largely of bottlebrushes and sedge. 
Forked sundew and butterfly plant were 
there, also Selaginella and Lndsaya, but 
nothin® that we do not always meet with 
in such localities. Desmids, filamentous 
Algae, and Myxophyceae were plentiful, 
but hud to be neglected for want of time 
and tools. 
The sand-dunes likewise yielded noth¬ 
ing but the commonest species, though 
sunie interest was induced by the finding 
of masses of Xostoc. many pieces of which 
were attacked by its particular parasitic, 
I’ zizu. with the result that the lichen 
genus, ('allemu. was procured. 
ZOOLOGICAL REPORT 
By Professor Flynn and W. L. May. 
Mr. W. L. May reports that the 
trawling, in Wedge Bay did not bring up 
anything of special interest, but a nice 
example r.f Phnsianella australis, and 
Yeioanolla maxima Tryon appeared, the 
latter bring one of our largest gastero¬ 
poda. At Pert Arthur the continuance 
of stormy weather conditions prevented 
low tides, so tiv.it practically no shore 
collecting was possible, (dome time was 
pleasantly and usefully spent in exam¬ 
ining Mr. Maude's local collection, and 
several possibly new species were noted, 
one a beautiful little pure white "Lim¬ 
pet” which is found living on rocks ex¬ 
posed to the heaviest surf. Amloing 
some tiny shells taken from weed 
brought up on fishermens lines outside 
Port Arthur was a Margin ell a, which 
on careful examination at home proves 
to be M. lubrioa Petti rd. a "lost spe¬ 
cies” ; the type was from five fathoms, 
off Brown’s River, The type has dis¬ 
appeared. and no specimen has since 
come to light, so that the species was 
practically given up. However, it will 
now be possible to figure and generally 
rehabilitate it. 
The two attempts at dredging off 
Oape Raoul brought up very small sam¬ 
ples :Gif the bottom, but what there was 
indicated that we were on a rich field, 
and with favourable weather conditions 
no doubt wo should have made a fine 
haul. Two species of special interest 
were taken. 1st, Murox lie inns, Hedley 
and Potterd. The type was taken in 
.300 fathoms, off Sydney, another in 100 
fathoms, off Cape Pillar, one off Wine¬ 
glass Bay, and one has been picked up 
on Pirate Bay beach, so that this makes 
the lifth specimen so far collected. It 
would be probably better placed in Tro- 
phon, ns it has a strong resemblance 
to some of the Antarctic members of 
that genus. Second. Cyckistrema jaf- 
faensis. Verco. This is a remarkably 
distinct little shell, involute, pure white, 
and altogether well separate from its 
nearest known relatives, probably anew 
genus is indicated. The unique type 
was from off Cape Jaffa, South Austra¬ 
lia. A .specimen has been taken off 
Sr hearten Island, and believed to ho the 
third specimen known. In addition to 
the above, a number of invertebrates 
