LINNEAIf SOCIETY OF LONDON. 133 



June 3rd, 1886. 



William Cahettthers, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Frederick Merryweather Burton, E-iq., James Fletcher, Esq., 

 William Saunders, Esq., George William Carter, Esq., Prof. 

 John Macoun, Prof. Joseph Price Remington, James Kodway, 

 Esq., Martin John Sutton, Esq., and Pridham H. Wippell, Esq., 

 were elected Fellows. 



The President nominated Mr. Frank Crisp, Mr. W. T. Thisel- 

 ton Dyer, Prof. W. H, Flower, and Sir John Lubbock, Bart., to 

 be Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year. 



There were exhibited for Mr, J. G-. Otto Tepper, of Adelaide, 

 South Australia, seeds of Xantliorrhoea Tatei (F. von Mueller), 

 collected by Mr. Tepper at Cape Barde, Kangaroo Island, South 

 Australia. 



Two volumes of Coloured Drawings of Plants, said to have 

 been drawn in China about the beginning of this century, were 

 shown for Dr. Charles Cogswell. 



Mr. George Murray exhibited specimens of the Fungus lleo- 

 dictyon cibarium, Tul., from New Zealand, brought home by Dr. 

 von Lendenfeld, who noted their bright luminosity. This fungus 

 is eaten wuen very young, before it bursts the volva; when 

 mature, the smell is peculiarly disgusting, and it is then never 

 eaten. 



Specimens of Balanoplwra Thioaitesii, preserved in sj)irit, and 

 brought from Ceylon by Prof F. 0. Bower, F.L.S., and a 

 growing plant of Lqniris Loeselli, liich., from Cambridgeshire, 

 were shown by Dr. Henry Trimeu and Mr. H. JS[. liidley re- 

 spectively, in illustratiou of their pajDers. 



The following papers were then read : — 



1. "The Mosses and Hepaticse collected in Central Africa by 

 the late Eight Bev. James Haunmgton, Bishop of Mombasa, 

 F.L.S., with some others, including those gathered by Mr. H. H. 

 Johnston on Kilimanjaro." By W. Mitten, A.L.S. 



2. " Enumeration of the Plants collected by Mr. H. H. John- 

 ston on the Kilimanjaro Expedition, lySJj." \^y Prof. Oliver, 

 F.B.S., and the Otiicers of the Kew Herbarium. 



3. " On Balanoj[)hora Thwaitesii.'' By Dr. Henry Trimen, 

 F.L.S. 



4. " A Revision of the Genus Liparis (Orchideae)." By H. N. 

 Eidley, F.L.S. 



5. " Report on Dr. J. Anderson's Collection of Sponges made 

 in 1881-82 from tlie Muddy Flats on the North-western side 



LINN. SCO. PllOCKEDINaS. SESSION 1885-86. m 



