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LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



(SESSION 1877-78) 



Kovember 1st, 1877. 

 .Prof. G. J. Allman, M.D., F.E.S., President, iu the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



Stuart M. Samuel, Esq., and Peter Wyatt Squire, Esq., were 

 elected Eellows. 



The Eev. T. H. Sothcbv, of Langford Budvillo, Somerset, ex- 

 hibited branches of a remarkable Shrub originally from Lady 

 Eolles's garden at Bicton. It was described and figured by 

 Dr. Lindley in the Journal of the Horticultural Society, vol. v., 

 as Golletia hictonensis, and there stated to be a seedling raised 

 from C spinosa ; but it had been described in the ' Botanical 

 Miscellany ' by Sir W. J. Hooker twenty years before as CoUefia 

 cruciata, from dried specimens collected by Dr. Grillies near Mal- 

 donado, La Plata. 



Mr. Holmes, P. L.S., exhibited specimens of Sugar-cane attacked 

 by a Fungus, which is causing the destruction of a cane-planta- 

 tion in the south of India, lie also exhibited Mr. Ilanbury's 

 collection of Cardamoms from the herbarium of the Pharmaceu- 

 tical Society, to illustrate Dr. King's paper on the Winged 

 Cardamom. 



Dr. Masters, P.L.S., exhibited specimens of a Grape within a 

 grape (adventitious fruit in placeof seed), and adventitious tabers 

 producing buds on the root or tigellum oi JSrmsica Bapct. 



Mr. A. 0. AValker, P.L.S., exhibited flowering specimens from 

 his garden at Vhe^iev oi Fremont ia californica, Pentxtemoii Cleve- 

 landii, P. spectahilis, P. coi'difoUus,EHgcni(( oj[)iculataj &c. 



