LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 1 9 



The report- of tl)e Donations received since the last Meeting 

 was laid before the Fellows, and the thanks of the Society to the 

 several Donors were ordei'ed. 



Dr. Sadao Yoshida and Mr. Charles Coltmau-Rogers were 

 admitted Fellows. 



James Walter White and Thomas Hayton Mawson were pro- 

 posed as Fellows. 



Certificates in favour of John Francis Donald Tiitt and James 

 Eobert Ainslie were read for the second time. 



Certificates for five Foreign Members, proposed on 3rd March, 

 were read for the third time. 



The first communication was by Mr. Horace ^Y. Moncktox, 

 Treasurer and V.-P.L.S., entitled " On the Distribution of 

 TarcLvacum eri/tJu-osjJennmn, Andrz., in the South-East of Eng- 

 land." - * . , 



The author explained that he had for some years noticed a 

 small form of Dandelion witii deeply cut leaves and red seed 

 growing abundantly on a football ground at Wellington College, 

 Berkshire. It belongs to a group of varieties named erythro- 

 spermum. The geological formation is Upper Bagshot Sand 

 (Barton Beds). He had seen the same variety on the similar 

 sandy soil of Puttenham Heath, Surrey (Lower Greeusand), on 

 the Thames Gravel near Old Windsor, Berks, and on walls at 

 West Drayton and other places. It is not confined to. areas of 

 sand or gravel, for lie exhibited specimens from the London Clay 

 of Ashtead Common, near Epsom, Surrey. He had also found 

 the same variety on the North Downs at Ranmore Common, near 

 Dorking, wliicli is in the Chalk District. The clialk does not, 

 however, form the surface at that place, there being a covering of 

 some thickness of clay, sand, and stones (mapped '■ Clay-with- 

 Flints "). The only example of the red-seeded variety which he 

 happened to have seen growing actually on a chalk soil was in a 

 Held between Leatherhead and'Headley, Surrey. It is a larger 

 plant than his other examples and is determined by Dr. Druce as 

 T. lacutopJtyllum, Dahlst. 



A discussion followed, Mr. C. E. Salmon, who showed speci- 

 mens from the Chalk and Lower Greensand of the Keigate 

 •listrict, the General Secretary, Mr. C. C. Lacaita, Mr. A. J. 

 Wihuott,* and Mr. E. G. Baker taking i)art, Mr. Monckton 

 replying. 



Next followed Mr. Reginald A. Malbt, who gave his lecture 

 " A miniature Alpine Garden from January to December,'' illus- 

 trated by a long series of lantern-slides, many of them coloured. 



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