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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEiN SOCIETY OF LONDOX. 



(SESSION 1894-95.) 



November 1st, 1894. 



Mr. Charles Baeon Clabke, F.R.S., President, in. the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Arthur Philip Grreen and Mr. Frederick Lewis were 

 elected Fellows. 



At the request of the Eoyal Society of New South "Wales, the 

 President announced the offer by that Society of a series of 

 prizes for the best communications on cerbaiu specified subjects. 



Messrs. H. and J. Groves exhibited an undescribed Chara 

 from Westmeath, and made remarks upon its peculiar mode of 

 growth. 



There were exhibited for Mr. J. Gr. Otto Tepper some photo- 

 graphs of a remarkable Fungus from South Australia, Lacco- 

 cephalum basilapidoides, MacAlp. & Tepp., which explained the 

 formation of the peculiar stone-like nodules occasionally found 

 when clearing scrub-land. These were found to be due to the 

 agglutinating nature of the mycelium of this fungus, the grains 

 being permanently cemented by lime and ferruginous oxides. 



The Eev. Gr. Henslow made some remarks on a peculiar mode 

 of propagation of Oxalis cernua observed in Malta, and exhibited 

 some views taken during his sojourn there. 



Mr. Miller Christy exhibited a long piece of leaden pipe which 

 had been gnawed through its entire length by Eats, in a manner 



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