LINNEAN SOCIETY Of LO^'DON. II 



Specimens of Peziza coccinea, sent by Mr. W. H. Lamb, 

 from Ilfracombe, were exliibited by Sir John Lubbock, 

 V.P.L.S. 



A dried specimen of Pnmf/« imperialis, Jungh., collected by 

 Dr. Sydney Hickson in Java, was exhibited from the Eoyal Gar- 

 dens, Kew. This is a giant form of Primula, being over three 

 feet in height. Plants of tliis Himalayan and Malayan species 

 are now under cultivation at Kew. 



Mr. George Maw showed two Narcissi, both of which have 

 been known under tlie name of N. cernuus. The White Daifodil, 

 or Ajax, discovered by Mr. Buxton at a height of 7000 feet iu a 

 valley of the Spanish Pyrenees, is of interest because it is the only 

 white Daffodil now kuowii in a wild station, though four, more 

 or less distinct, viz. iV^. onoschatus, N. cernuus, JV. albicans, and 

 iV. tortuosus, were known to the earlier botanists, probably as 

 early as the year 1600. It is open to question whether the white 

 Datibdil exhibited should be referred to N. cernuus or iV^. mos- 

 chatus. Liunaeus's name moscliatus was applied to a white 

 Daftodil from the Pyrenees. The name cernuus as applied to an 

 Ajax or Daffodil was used by iioth, Schultes, and Haworth in 

 lsl7, 1831, and 1835 ; but Salisbury in 18u6 applied the name 

 cernuus to N. triandrus, Linn., or a vai'iety of it. Dr. Will- 

 komm, iu his ' lliustrationes Florae Hispanicae,' has recently 

 described a third species under the name of N. cernuus. The 

 specimen exhibited was flowered by the liev. C. "Woolley Dod, 

 from bulbs collected by Dr, Henriques of Coimbra, in the Serra 

 d'Estrella, Portugal. It is a very diminutive self-coloured orange 

 species, with suddenly reflexed segments barely half an inch iu 

 length, and with a corona half an inch long. It is allied to N. 

 triandrus ; but is evidently distinct from the yellow forms of 

 that species, and may be identical with a plant collected by 

 Blanco at Puente Horrida (? Fuente Torrido), in the province 

 of Jaen, a single specimen of which exists in the British 

 Museum. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Phytobiological Observations. — Part II. Forms of Seed- 

 lings; and on the \jQ?Jt oi Liriodendron {\\\q Tulip-Tree)." By 

 Sir John Lubbock, Bart., Vice-Pres. Linn. Soc. 



2. " On Dichelaspis ijellucida, ivom the Scales of an Hydrophid 

 obtained at Mergui." By Dr. P. Hoek of Leiden. (Communi- 

 cated by Dr. John Anderson, F.L.S.) 



