LINNEAN SOCIETY OP LONDON. 1 3 



Prof. Yves Delage and Prof. Magnus Gustaf Eetzius were 

 proposed as Foreign Members. 



Mr. William Ambrose Clarke, Mr. Frank Hicks, and Misa Ida 

 Mary Eoper were elected Fellows. 



Mr. E-. A. EoLFE, A.L.S., exhibited flow^ers of several crosses 

 derived from the hybrid Ujndendriivi hewense and its parents, 

 Avhioh showed Mendelian phenomena. 



Dr. A. B. Rendle and Prof. Weiss contributed some remarks, 

 and Mr. Eolfe replied. 



Prof. F. E. Weiss exhibited actual specimens of the curious 

 development of the roots of a Sycamore which had grown on very 

 stony soil, and further illustrated the developments by lantern- 

 slides. 



Dr. 0. Stapf, Mr. J. C. Shenstone, and the President remarked 

 upon the phenomena thus shown. 



The following paper was read : — 



" A Contribution to the Montane Flora of Fiji, iucludiug 

 Cryptogams ; with Ecological Xotes," By Miss L. S. Gtibbs, 

 F.L.S. 



March 18th, 1909. 



Dr. D. H. Scott, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 4th Mai'cli, 1909, 

 were read and confirmed. 



( 1 Mr. William Herbert Mullens and Mr. Gurney Wilson were 

 admitted Fellows. 



Dr. William Henry Lang, M.B,, CM., and Mr. Martin Hubert 

 Foquet Sutton were proposed as Fellows. 



Mr. Alexander James Gibson, Mr. Edward James Salisbury, 

 B.Sc, and Miss Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, D.Sc, Ph.D., 

 were severally balloted for and elected Fellows. 



Mr. C. E. Salmon, F.L.S. , exhibited specimens of Euplirasia 

 niiaima from Somerset, which had been ten years in his herbarium, 

 and remarked upon the geographical range of the species. 



Mr. F. X. AViLLiAMs contributed further remarks and pointed 

 out the strong probability that E. minima was the type of 

 E, officinalis, Linn. 



