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roots) will, he thinks, produce fronds of both varieties this season. 

 A singular monstrous variety of Juncus, found in Faversham, Kent, 

 by Mr. Cowell, vv^as exhibited. Specimens of Rhinanthus major from 

 near Hastings, Sussex, w^ere exhibited by Mr. Ranking, who disco- 

 vered them in that locality. A small slender-stemmed and pur})le- 

 flowered variety of Euphrasia officinalis, (probably a new species,) dis- 

 covered by the Rev. A. Bloxam, in Seamor Moor, near Scarborough, 

 in 1838, was likewise exhibited. Mr. Daniel Cooper noticed a rare 

 variety of Burtsia Odontites, found by him near Papplewick, Not- 

 tinghamshire, in September 1839, and described only in the seventh 

 edition of Withering's British Flora, vol. iii. p. 727, and noticed 

 thus — " Bartsia Odontites, var. 2. Flowers white, stem very pale 

 green, leaves without any tinge of red." The two following locali- 

 ties are there quoted, '* Gathered by Rev. — Bourne, on Northing- 

 ton Farm, Grimley, near Worcester." (Mr. Woodward also found 

 this variety growing near Diss, in Norfolk. — Ed.) From this it 

 would appear that the variety under consideration is by no means of 

 common occurrence. The following is the additional station as 

 given by Mr. Cooper : " At the south-east corner of a small wood 

 called Jack-o- Sherwood, about half a mile from Papplewick, Not- 

 tinghamshire, in a marshy plot of ground, on the border of the small 

 river," fully exposed to the rays of the sun. From the decided' dif- 

 ferent character and appearance of this variety of so common a 

 British species, Mr. Cooper is inclined to consider it deserving a 

 place in the recent British Floras. In the recently published Flora 

 of the county. Dr. Howitt does not mention it, neither is it to be 

 found recorded in the recently published British Floras, with the 

 exception of that of Dr. Withering above-quoted. 



November 29. — Anniversary Meeting. J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S. 

 President, in the Chair. 

 The Secretary read the Third Annual Report, from which it ap- 

 peared that donations of British plants had been received from the 

 Botanical Society of Edinburgh and forty-eight members. The 

 number of British specimens received amounted to 101 natural or- 

 ders, 491 genera, 1291 species, including 24,860 specimens, being 

 an increase in that of last year of 3 natural orders, 69 genera, 241 

 species, and 6268 specimens. As the British Phsenogamous col- 

 lection is daily becoming more complete, and as the Council anticipate 

 shortly to have a perfect collection, the attention of the members is 

 particularly solicited to the genera Rubus, Rosa, and Salix, as they 

 are anxious to complete those genera and render them of service to 



