The Australian Naturalist 
ViOlean Vee APRIL 1. Part 10. 
NOTE.—Members having any matter of interest suitable for public 
ation tn these pages ave requested to communicate with the Editor 
ORDINARY MEETINGS. 
February 5th.—The President (Mr. EK. Cheel), in the chair, 
and a good attendance. Misses Hewison, Bruce and McFadyen 
and Mr. Gillings were duly elected members. An instructive 
and interesting lecture-—‘Popular notes on the Salt-bush family 
(Chenopodiaceae)” was delivered by Mr. R. H. Anderson, B.Sc. 
Agri., stressing especially those genera having economic value, 
as Chenopodium, Atriplex, ete. 
Mr. Forster exhibited beautiful water colour paintings of 
Kosciusko plants collected by Misses Harris and Butler. Mr. 
Gallard read a note on the life-history of the parasitic wasp 
Goniozus antipodum, illustrated by specimens and micro-photo 
slides by Mr. Harrington. 
Mr. Froggatt parasites of the timber borers belonging to 
the Cleridae with descriptive notes. Master T. Howell, Boletus 
granulatus and Agaricus sylvestris, both edible, the former be- 
ing prized by Italians as a delicacy. Miss Le Plastrier branch 
of Acacia implexa from Lindfield (shale) showing more luxuri- 
ant blooms than at any period for eight years, also micrographic 
slide (Mr. Harrington) of Xanthorrhoea minor section stained 
and photographed in colour. Mr. O’Hare Calla showing double 
spathe, the smaller within the larger but in a different sense. 
The President seedlings of Hucalypts illustrating different form 
of cotyledons and other growth characteristics under similar 
treatment:—H. globulus, E. transcontinentalis and E. Maideni 
having emarginate cotyledons; H. wnecinata with Y shaped coty- 
ledons; E. ficifolia with entire cotyledons, and in a pan of 23 
seedlings one was found to be tri-cotyledonous and the first true 
leaves in a whorl of three. 
