LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON, XXVll 



No. XI. " Notes on Plants collected at Eernando Noronha." 

 By H. N. Moseley, Esq. 



The only published description of plants from this island is by 

 "Webster in his narrative of Foster's voyage in the ' Chanticleer.' 

 Darwin mentions only two. 



No. XII. "Enumeration of Algae collected by Mr Moseley 

 at Eernando Noronha." By G. Dickie, M.D., F.L.S. 



Eive or six new species are described. Excluding three or four 

 species, mostly cosmopolites, and the smaller species from rock- 

 pools, the Algse are most nearly related to those of the Mexican 

 Gulf. 



No. XIII. " Enumeration of Algse collected by Mr. Moseley 

 in 30-fathoms water at Barra Grande, Pernambuco," By G. 

 Dickie, M.D., F.L.S. 



No. XIV. " Enumeration of Algse collected by Mr. Moseley in 

 Bahia." By G. Dickie, M.D., F.L.S. 



May 7th, 1874. 



Geoege Busk, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Isaac Vaughan, Esq., F.Z.S., was elected a FeUow. 



Professor Thiselton Dyer exhibited a fruit of Telfairia oceiden- 

 talis, Hook. f. Dr. W. C. Thomson wrote in a note accompany- 

 ing the specimen, " The seeds ai'e used parched by the natives of 

 Calabar, and the young leaves and shoots much prized as a green 

 vegetable. The native name is Ubong ; and from the fruit of the 

 Aristolochia Goldieana, Hook, f., having some resemblance to it, 

 that plant is called Ubong-edop, signifying the antelope's or the 

 wild Ubong." With reference to the fruit of the Aristolochia, 

 hitherto undescribed. Dr. Thomson writes as follows : — " I have 



