PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OE LONDON 



November 6th, 1855. 

 Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. "Ward, E.L.S., exhibited a fine growing specimen of Holcus 

 saccharatus, Ard., raised in a closed case in January, and planted 

 out on a bank in his garden when about 10 inches high. 



Mr. "Westwood, E.L.S., presented a fruit of Luffa JEgyptiaca, 

 Mill., a plant cultivated in all warm countries, and commonly- 

 called the Towel-gourd. The specimen presented was dried, like 

 those so frequently seen in collections, with the pulp washed out ; 

 but was remarkable as being part of a cargo imported from the 

 West Indies for the purpose of paper-making. The beautiful net- 

 work fibre is also bleached and made into picture-frames, basket- 

 work, reticules, &c. 



Mr. "Westwood also presented an abnormal growth of the Aspa- 

 ragus officinalis, L., from his garden at Hammersmith, in which 

 the flattened stem, not thicker than a card, had attained a width 



of an inch and a half. 



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Bead an Extract from a Letter addressed by Thomas Shearman 

 Ealph, Esq., A.L.S., to Mr. Kippist, " On the Katepo, a supposed 

 Linn. Proc. a 



