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;prombings of Soxiefics. 



Ltnnean Society. — June \st, 1871. — G. Bentham, Esq., President, 

 in the chair. Mr. J. C. Melvill exhibited specimens of Siler Irilobmn, 

 Scop., collected by him near Cherry Hinton, Cambridn-e ; and stated that 

 lie believed it to be a native there. (See p. 211.) The following papers 

 were read : — " Notes on Northern Chinese Plants," by H. F. Hance, 

 Ph.D. The paper consisted of notes on, and descriptions of, about 70 

 species, 12 of which were new, ineluding two species of Oxytropis and 

 Orobanche, two Carices, etc. " On tlie Ilippocmleacece of South Ame- 

 rica," by John Miers. (See p. 220.) 



Botanical Society op Edinburgh. — May Wth, 1871. — Alexander 

 Buchan, Esq., President, in the chair. — The following communications 

 were read : — " On the different Plants used as Ipecacuan," by Professor 

 Balfour. The plants described were Cephaelis Ipecacuanlia, Psychotria 

 emelica, Richardsonia scabra, lonidium Ipecacuanlia, Manettia cordifolia, 

 Euphorbia Ipecacuanha, Folyyala Poaya, and Tylop)hora asihmatica . The 

 paper was illustrated by drawings, dried and living specimens of the plants 

 referred to, and microscopical preparations. " On the Ericacece of the 

 Dominion of Canada and adjacent parts of British America." By Pro- 

 fessor George Dawson. 



June 8ih. — Alexander Buchan, Esq., President, in the chair. The 

 following communications were read : — " Biographical Notice of the late 

 Mr. William Wilson," by Mr. James F. Robinson. " On Tea-manufac- 

 turing in India," by Mr. William Bell. Professor Balfour recorded the 

 occurrence of Sisymbrium Columna on the banks of the Water of Leith, 

 near Colinton, where it had doubtlessly been introduced with material 

 brought to the paper mills in the neighbourhood. He also noticed Allium 

 Schoenoprasum near Colinton, and Lysimachia thyrsijiora in the canal in 

 several places near Edinburgh. Prof. B. exhibited a large flowering spe- 

 cimen of a species of Dorema, which had been sent to the Royal Botanic 

 Garden by Mr. Loftus, from Persia. 



gotankal |tetos. 



Mr. E. D. Harrop records the occurrence of Phyllactidium pulchelhnn 

 (see Journ. Bot. Vol. lY. pp. 225, 370), Kiitz., in Tasmania, and in the 

 monthly Notices of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1869, gives a 

 lengthened description of the plant. In the same Notices for 1868, he 

 gives a list of the known Desruidere of Tasmania. 



Dr. Rabenliorst describes a new genus (Selrosporium) , and several new 

 species of Fungi collected by Haussknecht in the East, in the Dresden 

 'Isis' for 1870. 



A continuation of Mr. Broome's paper on the Fungi in the neighbour- 

 hood of Bath, reviewed in our last volume (p. 360), is included in the 

 Proceedings of the Bath Natural History Club, vol. ii. 1871. 



Ferd. von Midler gives a list of 74' plants new to the Tasmanian flora 

 in the monthly Notices of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1868. 



