1844.] Linnean Socieiy^, 189 



III. Abdominis petiolo elongate, clavato ; thorace abrupte truncate. 



6. Chartergus Morio, St. Farg, 



IV. Abdominis petiolo elongate, clavato ; thorace postice declivi. 



7. Myraptera sc.utellaris, White. 



8. • elegans. Curt. 



9. — — — ^ hrunnea, Curt. 



The paper was accompanied by a series of drawings illustrative of 

 the insects and their nests. 



February 20. 

 The Lord Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair. 



Read a further portion of Mr. Griffith's memoir on Root- Parasites 

 and their allies, comprehending a description of Asiphotiia, a new 

 genus of Asarince, and an account of Hydnora, Thb. 



March 5. 

 E. Forster, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 

 Wm. Hopkins Milne, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



Read a paper " On Spiranthes gemmipara." By Charles Cardale 

 Babington, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. &c. 



Two specimens of this very rare plant were first found by Mr. 

 James Drummond in or about the year 1810, near Castletown, Bear- 

 haven, in the county of Cork, " opposite the western redoubt, grow- 

 ing in a salt-marsh near the shore." One of these was communi- 

 cated to Sir James E. Smith, who published it in his ' English Flora ' 

 under the name of Neottia gemmipara, with a description furnished 

 by Mr. Drummond. Within these few years the plant has been again 

 discovered near to, but probably not in exactly the original spot, by 

 Dr. P. A. Armstrong, who on the 30th of September 1843 con- 

 ducted Mr. Babingtou and Mr. E. Winterbottom to the station, 

 where they saw about twelve specimens, several of which had been 



