Liy>'E.VX SOCIETY OF LO>T)0>', 1 5 



The Chairman then, in accordance with previous notice, moved 

 the following resolutions of the Council : — 



1. That the "W'allichian Herbarium and later additions from 



Dr. Horsfield and others be offered to the Eoyal Botanic 

 Gardens, Kew. 



2. That certain papers relating to the University of Uppsala 



be presented to that University. 



A ballot being taken in accordance with the Bye-Lavrs, Chap. 

 XIII. Sect. 8, the Chairman declared the Eesolutions adopted. 



Mr. C E. Salmox exhibited a large series of forms of AlchemiUa 

 vulgaris, Linn. He stated that the species of AlchemiUa are easy 

 to collect and dry- They are not difficult to name as compared 

 with Euphrasia or Hieracium^ thanks to Dr. H. Lindberg's excellent 

 Monograph published in 1909. He had placed Dr. Lindberg's 

 volume upon the table, and, with three exceptions, all the forms 

 mentioned by him were represented in a dried state. 



There are three main Sections, Puhescentes, Hirsutce, and 

 ■Suhglahro'. 



A. puhescens, Buser, represents the first section (which also 

 includes A. hirsuticaidis, Lindb., and A. pJicata, Buser) ; all these 

 ^re more or less wholly densely sericeous. A. puhescens is not 

 British, but it was shown to him last year in a wild situation in 

 Surrey, where, on investigation, it was proved that its origin was 

 a garden not A-ery far away, whence it had been brought from 

 Xorway about 20 years ago. 



In the Hirsutce section, we get three out of the four British 

 species. The first, A. pratensis, Schmidt, is widely distributed 

 -over the British Isles and Ireland ; the glabrous flowers, hairy 

 stem, and glabrous upper leaf-surface help to distinguish it. 

 A. minor. Huds., is the next and is our most frequent form ; may 

 be known by its hairy pedicels and flowers. The third, A. minor, 

 siuhsp.JiJicaidis, Lindb., is extremely local in Britain (only occur- 

 ring in a few stations in Scotland), but widely distributed in Nor- 

 way, Sweden, the Faroes, etc. ; it is less hairy in ail its parts 

 than A. minor, whilst pedicels and top of stem are glabrous. 



The remaining British species, A. alpestris, Schmidt, belongs to 

 the section Suhr/lahrce and is, as one may imagine, much more 

 glabrous than any of the others in stem, leaves, etc. Its distribu- 

 tion in Britain is more northern than A.pratensis or A. minor, but 

 an isolated colony exists in Sussex. 



A. acutidejis, Lindb., was reported from Ben Lawers in Aug. 

 1911, on the occasion of the Phyto-G-eographical Excursion. 

 Last year he was in that neighbourhood and failed to see anything 

 but A. aJpiestris on the mountain. Dr. Lindberg has now named 

 the original plants of the 1911 gathering as autumnal states of 

 A. alpestris, so it is believed true acutidens — of which an un- 

 doubted example from Eussia is on the table — has yet to be found 



