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an inflated calyx, with more or less broad wings at the angles, e.g., 

 G. utricidosa, Linn. 



A series of photographs taken in Ceylon by Mr. T. C. Willis, 

 Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, was exhibited 

 by Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A., B.Sc, F.L.S., F.R.G.S. The 

 photographs illustrated the cultivation of tea, coffee, cocoa, cinna- 

 mon, (fee, and represented the plants under cultivation in the field, 

 and also their various flowers and fruit. 



25th January, IS 98. 



Mr. Eobert Kidston, F.B.S.E., F.G.S., President, in the chair. 



Mr. S. M. Wellwood exhibited a collection of plants from France 

 {Departement du Rhone) — most of the species included, and some 

 of the genera, not being represented in the British Flora. 



Mr. Symers M. Macvicar exhibited the following three hepatics 

 from Moidarc, Inverness-shire: — (1) Lepidozia cupressina (Sw.), 

 described bv Tavlor as L. tamidula. which is stated in The London 

 Catalogue of British Mosses and Hepatics, 2nd ed., 1881. as having 

 been found in the Peninsular Province (Cornwall, tfcc.) and the 

 Humber Province (Yorkshire), and in Ireland, No. 270 in 

 Carrington and Pearson's Hepatica Britannica Exsiccata is a 

 specimen of this plant from near Loch Maree, Ross-shire, gathered 

 by Dr. Carrington in 1889. It is not rare in Moidart, and in Mr. 

 Mac vicar's opinion should be found in other parts of the West Coast. 

 It is easily distinguished from Lepidozia reptans, Linn., by being 

 erect, very densely tufted, and cream-coloured. (2) Mastigophora 

 Woodsii (Hook.), Nees, a very rare plant, fii-st discovered in the 

 south-west of Ireland. In Wallace's Island Life, 2nd ed., 1892, 

 it is referred to, on the authority of Mr. Mitten, as being " found 

 in Ireland and the Himalayas, but unknown in any part of 

 Continental Europe." In The London Catalogue of British 

 Mosses and Hepatics no English locality is given, but Province 17 

 is mentioned for Scotland. Whether this refers to 17a, Upper 

 North Highland (Sutherland, Caithness), or to 17b, Lower North 

 Highland (Ross-shire), is left in doubt. Mr. Macvicar found it in 

 Moidart in 1892, and again this year, in some quantity, among 

 wet rocks in a ravine at 1,200 feet altitude ', also, but sparingly, at 

 400 feet altitude. This handsome species grows in large con- 



