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'Mr. Josepli Oiner-Coopor and ^liss Lucy Ellen Cox w ere pro- 

 posed as Fellow.s. 



The tVrtilicato in favoui- ot Mv. Xarayaiuui Padinaiiablia 

 Panikkar, B.A,, \\as read for the second time. 



Mr. Arthiu" Robert Thompson, fiieut. It.A.F., Miss Mary Ross 

 Hall Thomson, Mr, Humphrey John Henliam, B.A. (Oxoii.), 

 Mr. Efhelbert Ambrook Southee, Mr. Jienaiah Colson Adkin, 

 M.A. (Cantab.), George Parker Bidder, IM.A., 8c.D. (Cantab.), 

 Miss Vera Adelaide Irwin-Smith, B.Sc. (Sydney), Mr. James 

 Robert INIatthews, JM.A. (Kdin.), and Miss " Beatrice IJuckland 

 Taylor were elected Fellows. 



The proposed alterations in Chapters il.&XV. of the Bye- 

 Laws were read from the Chair for the second time. 



!Mr. T. Kerr J'attox exbibiletl 34 plants from ^[esopotamia 

 and 78 from Southern Lidia, collected whilst on service, and 

 mounted on post-cards. He s|)oke of the soil in Mesopotamia 

 being easily dii<:j with the spade to a depth of tliirty feet, and the 

 rapiil growth of crops after being sown. 



^fr. L. V. Lester-tJarland and Mr. C. C. Lacaita contributed 

 farther remarks, and Mr. Patton replied. 



Mr. C. C. Lacaita showed specimens of Orchis macidala col- 

 lected on Monte iJargano, Italy. ]Jr. G. C. Druce made some 

 observations, to which Air. C. C. Ijacaita replied. 



Dr. (}. C'LARnxiE Dri'CK exhibited sjjecimens and read the 

 following account : — 



"On tlie Occurrence in Britain as Native Plants of yijii[/a 

 'leaevens'is and Cenlaurium sdUoides, Uruce, var. portense ( IJrot.).'' 



Although there are ])revious records of Ajtuja r/euevensis from 

 Britain the records are probably mistakes \'or pi/ruitiidalis or other 

 species, and in one instance due to a garden-escape of the true 

 plant ; this discovery of f/eiuven.sis on the Berkshire downs is an 

 undoubted evidence of it as a British species. Jt was discovered 

 i)y Miss Fry in May 1018, and the exhibitor went with her in 

 the nt;xt week to examine the habitat. Here there seems little 

 likelihood of accidental introdm-t ion. The plant grows on the 

 grassy chalk-downs near furze-hushes, but is limited to a small 

 area. 



CeiildUi-inm sc'iUoldcs is the Enjthvira diffusa of Joseph Woods, 

 who discovered it near Morlaix in Brittany. As a somewhat 

 dilVerent form it had been previously discovered by Masson in the 

 Azores, where it is said to be always a white-flowered form. 'I'he 

 younger Linna)us (Suppl. 175, 1781 )describi;d the latter as Gcnthmu 

 sc'dloidcs with yellow llowers, a mistake which misled botanists to 



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