Gelehrte Gesellschaften. 247 



Form fanden sich in Folge von partieller Ausbildung und Verwachsung auch 

 verschiedene gekrümmte Zwischenformen. Die Verhältnisse wurden ausser 

 an gepressten Blüten auch an einer sehr schönen von Fräulein M. R h o d i n 

 gefertigten bunten Abbildung erläutert. Aehnliche Pelorien sind schon von 

 Chamisso und Guillemin an C!alceolaria rugosa, ferner von Schlech- 

 te n d a 1 *) und an Calceolaria crenatiflora von Ernst Meyer beobachtet und 

 beschrieben worden. **) 



Linnean Society of London. 



Meeting of December 1, 1881. — Sir John Lubbock, Bart., 

 President, in the chair. — Capt. P. Greene, G. S. Jenman, W. Landaw, 

 E. G. Warnford Lock, Rev. T. P. H. Sturges, Lieut.-Col. C. Swinhoe, 

 G. C. Walton, C. S. Wilkinson, G. S. V. Wills, and Rev. G. Wilson, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. — Mr. J. Harris Stone exhibited dried 

 specimens of Lychnis Viscaria, and made some remarks on the plant as a 

 trap for ants. He pointed out that three or four glutinous or sticky rings 

 are situated immediately underneath the nodes in the flowering stalks. Ants 

 climbing the stems are arrested and die in numbers at the sticky zones, and 

 few reach the flowers. In Norway last summer he had observed as many 

 as 95 per cent of the plants with dead and dying ants thereon ; and he 

 therefore submits whether the zones are a protection to the flowers, the ants 

 noxious , or that their dead bodies ultimately serve as nutriment and are 

 absorbed by the plant? — Dr. Maxwell Masters read a Note on the 

 Foliation and Ramification of Buddleia auriculata. In this plant the leaves 

 are opposite; but between the petioles — one on each side of the axis — is 

 a small leafy auricle, the interpretation of which by descriptive botanists 

 has been as varied as vague. The author seeks to show, from a study of 

 the mode of development and other considerations, that the auricles in 

 question represent leaves of a whorl , so that the verticil consists of two 

 perfect and two imperfect leaves. An additional link between Loganiaceae 

 and Rubiaceae is thus afforded. Further details were given concerning the 

 multiple axillary buds in this plant and the supra - axillary shoots. Some 

 of the peculiarities alluded to are usually explained on the hypothesis of 

 fusion ; but the author shows that in this , as in many similar cases , the 

 appearances are due to an arrest of development, in consequence of which 

 parts that should become free, in course of growth , remain inseparate, and 

 in some cases are uplifted with the axis as it lengthens, and are thus removed 

 from their normal position, fj 



Comptes-rendns des séanc. de la Soc. Roy. de bot. de Belgique. Tome XXI. 

 Partie 2. 1882. Séance du 14 janv. 8. 19 pp. Bruxelles 1882. 



Mémoires de l'Acad. des se. belles - lettres et arts de Clermont-Ferrand. 

 T. XXII. (Vol. LUI de la collection des Annales.) 1880. 8. 386 pp. Clermont- 

 Ferrand (Thibaud) 1882. 



Sitzungsberichte der physikalisch - medic. Soc. zu Erlangen. Heft 13. Nov. 

 1880 bis Aug. 1881. 8. Erlangen (Besold) 1882. M. 2.— 



Verhandlungen des bot. Ver. der Prov. Brandenburg. Jahrg. XXlIl. 1881. 

 Mit den Sitzungsberichten aus d. J. 1881. Red. u. hrsg. v. P. Ascherson, 

 E. Köhne, F. Kurtz. 8. Berlin (Gärtner) 1882. M. 6.— 



*) Linnaea XII. p. 686. 

 **) Cfr. Moquin-Tandon, Handbuch der Pflanzen - Teratologie A. d. 

 Franz. von Dr. Schauer 1842. 



t) From „The Journal of Botany ^ New Ser. Vol. XL January 1882. 

 p. 28. — Der Bericht über die Sitzung vom 15. Dec. 1881 ist durch ein Ver- 

 sehen bereits vor diesem auf p. 103 abgedruckt worden. — D. Red. B. 



