494 KEPOKTS OF MEETINGS. 



BOTANICAL SECTION. 



FEBEUARY ISth.— The Annual Meeting of this Section. The 

 Treasurer's Account was audited and passed. Mr. Charbonnier 

 moved, "That the President and Secretary be re-elected, with a 

 vote of thanks for their past year's services;" which resolution was 

 carried unanimously. A Sub- Committee of six Members was then 

 chosen for preparing a collection of plants for the Local Museum in 

 connection with the visit of the British Association to this city. 



March 27th. — The first botanical walk this season was taken to 

 Combe' Dingle, the members meeting on Durdham Down. 

 Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus was gathered below Adams' farm ; Lemna 

 trisulca in the rivulet ; Viola hirta on Combe Down ; and Myosotis 

 collina by the old quarry. In the evening the Local Museum 

 Committee, at the invitation of the President, met at his residence, 

 47, Hampton Park, and examined the plants collected during the 

 day; and after having refreshed themselves with a most liberal 

 supper, Mr. Leipner took the chair, and the marking off the local 

 plants, as per London catalogue, was completed at 11 p.m. 



May 1st. — Taking the train at Clifton Bridge for Portbury, we 

 walked from thence to Portishead by way of the Marsh. At Port- 

 bury Station the bank was covered with Petasites vulgaris; while the 

 Chrysospletiium oppositifolium grew in clusters on^the margin of the 

 rivulet. The Water Eanunculus covered the rhines with a white 

 sheet of flower ; and Armeria maritima was bursting its sheath on the 

 Sea shore. Arriving at Portishead we accepted an invitation to 

 spend the evening at Avon Yilla, the residence of Captain Dayas. 



