LIXNEAX SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



November 16tb, 1922. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.E.S., President, 

 ill the Chair. 



The jMinutes of the General Meeting of the 2nd November, 1922, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Eobert Gurney, M.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., was admitted a 

 Fellow. 



The Certificates in favour of the following were i-ead for the 

 second time : — 



Miss Annie Dixon, F.E.M.S. ; Joseph Bunny : Zenon loannon 

 Solomides ; Miss Elizabeth INIarianne Blackwell, M.Sc. (Liver- 

 pool); Miss Helena Bandulska, M.Sc. ; Robert Edwaixl Chapman, 

 M.Sc. (Leeds) ; and George Allan Frost, F.G.S. 



Tlie following were proposed as Fellows : — 

 Frederick Tom Brooks, M. A. (Cantab.) ; Eobert McGilUvray ; 

 George Norman Bunyard; and INIontagn Charles Allwood,F.R.H.S. 



The President read the proposed alterations in the Bye-Laws, 

 as announced on the 2nd November, for the second time. 



The President also read a letter from Mr. A. O. ^YALKBR, 

 expressing his appreciation of the message sent to him from the 

 last Meeting. 



The first communication was by Mr. A. J. Wilmott, B.A., 

 F.L.S., entitled " Orchis latifolia, Linn. (Marsh Orchis) from the 

 Island of Oland, Sweden obtained from the station in which it 

 was found by Linnaeus in 17-il." The author, in the following 

 abstr.ict sujjplied by him, stated : — 



It was pointed out that 0. latifolia, L., 1753, was a general 

 name for Marsh Orchids, but in 1755 this name was limited 

 without varieties, and separated from 0. incarnata and 0. sam- 

 hacina. The diagnosis is general, and comes from Linnaeus's 

 article in Act. LTpsal. 1740, where it applies mainly to unspotted- 

 leaved plants. The plant referred to as " it. oel. 48 " was 0. sam- 

 hucina, but the "O. palmata palnstris non maculata " of "it. oel. 

 48 " was pratermissa. This is referred by Linnaeus in MS. notes 

 to Fl. Suec. (ed. 1 ) no. 728 var. (728 being referred to under 

 0. latifolia), and is what remains when 0. samlnwina has been 

 separated. The herbarium specimen is also 0. jwcetermism , 

 matching one brought back by Mr. Edwards from the identical 

 spot in Oland. The plant of the ' Hortus Cliffortianus ' which 



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