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undulatis subcarinatis, racemis paucifloris axillaribus terminalibusve 

 pedicellis supra medium bibracteolatis calyce brevioribus. 

 Ilab. ad fl. Cygnorum N. Hollandiae, Drummond, ser. 5. no. 23. 



Both plants were obtained by Mr. Moore from the Nursery of 

 Messrs. Henderson in the Edgware-road, where they had been 

 raised from Mr. Drummond's seeds. 



June loth. 



R. Brown, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. Edward Armitage,M.A., and Francis Polkingham Pascoe, 

 Esq., were elected Fellows. 



Read the commencement of a memoir " On the Development of 

 Ferns from their Spores." By Arthur Henfrey, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 &c. 



November 2. 



R. Brown, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Read a continuation of Mr. Henfrey's memoir " On the Develop- 

 ment of Ferns from their Spores." 



November 16. 

 N. Wallich, Esq., M.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Frederick John Earl of Ripon, the Rev. Edward Tagart, and Ber- 

 thold Seeman, Esq., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Read the conclusion of Mr. Henfrey's memoir " On the Develop- 

 ment of Ferns from their Spores." 



The author commences his paper by referring to the remarkable 

 discoveries published by Count Leszczyi-Suminski in 1848, and the 



