LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON". 5 



2. " Variation in the Floral Symmetry of Potentilla Tormen- 

 tilla, Necker.— Part I. The Modes of Variation." By A. G. 

 Tansley, F.L.S., and Miss E. Dale. 



February 7th, 1895. 



Mr. Charles Babon Clarke, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. George Henry Adcock and Mr. John Eedman Bovell 

 were elected Fellows. 



The vacancies on the list of Foreign Members caused by the 

 deaths of Monsieur Pierre Duchartre, Dr. Nathan Pringsheim, 

 and Dr. Eduard von Kegel, having been announced by the 

 President, the following nominations were made on the recom- 

 mendation of the Council, and the Certificates ordered to be 

 suspended : — 



Dr. C. F. Otto Nordstedt, Keeper of the Botanical Museum 

 at the University of Lund, Editor of the ' Botaniska Notiser,' <tc. 



Dr. Michael Woronin of St. Petersburg, author of ' Zur 

 Entwickelungsgeschichte des Ascoholus pulcherrimus, Cramer, 

 und einiger Pezizen,' &c. 



Dr. Rudolph A, Philippi of Santiago, author of ' Reise darch die 

 Wiiste Atacama im Sommer 1853-1854,' &c. 



Mr. Thomas Christy exhibited a dried specimen of Aplopappus 

 Llaretcd, and samples of the so-called Gum Kino, Pterocarpns 

 erinaceus, of which some account was given by Mr. E. M. Holmes. 



Mr. George Murray exhibited a number of lantern-slides of 

 floating Algae, of which be gave brief descriptions, referring to 

 the localities in which they had been found and the literature 

 relating to them. 



By permission of the Director of the Eoyal Gardens, Kew, 

 Mr. W. B. Hemsley exhibited dried specimens of a number of 

 new plants from Eastern Asia. Conspicuous among these was a 

 new genus of the ScitaminecB from the mountains of Northern 

 Siam, characterized by having minute unisexual flowers destitute 

 of staminodia, and a one-celled ovary with parietal placentation, 

 and two filiform stylodia ; a remarkably broad-leaved iyA-macAea 

 from the same region ; new species of Hypericum, Ventilago, 

 Mesona, and Helicia from Formosa; and a new genus of 

 Cyrtandreae. From a collection made in Yunnan, Western 

 China, by Mr. W. Hancock of Hong Kong, came a new Jasminum, 

 allied to J. nudifiorum, with primrose-yellow flowers an inch 

 and a half in diameter, an elegant species of Fetrocosmea 

 (Cyrtandreae), and a showy Brandisea (Scrophularineae) with long 

 racemes of crimson flowers, which were much admired. 



