PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1884-85.) 



November 6th, 1884. 

 Sir John Lubbock, Bart., President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following Letter was read from the Chair: — 



" Eoyal Gardens, Kew, 24 Sept., 1884. 

 " Dear Sir, 



" As Executor of the late G. Bentham, Esq., F K.S., I have 

 to inform you that he has left the sum of £1000, free of legacy 

 duty, to the Linnean Society, which will be paid on the settle- 

 ment of his affairs. 



Yours faithfully, 

 The Secretary Linnean Socieiy. Jos. D. Hooker." 



Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer exhibited and made remarks on 

 the following plants and their products : — (1) Vaccinium Arctosta- 

 phylos, L., from which the Trebizonde Tea (" The-de-Bel-Dagh ") 

 IS prepared at Amassia and Tokat. The Tea has a pleasant odour, 

 but a somewhat harsh taste when drunk. (2) Pueraria Thun- 

 hergiana, Benth. : specimens of the plant and of the textile 

 fabric (resembling coarse-woven linen) made from its fibres and 

 obtained from Kew-Kiang and Chemulpo, Corea. (3) Pachy- 

 rhyza sinensis, with the native name of " Ko-poo :" a leguminous 

 plant, from the fibres of which the yellow and more expensive 

 kind of native summer cloth is made. This cloth, it is said, does 



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