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tlie production oE symmetrical rosette-like groups of small elavate 

 ])i'ocesses on the stems and branchlets, and the presence of a 

 utricle enveloping the oospore and formed or surrounded by 

 a number of elongated adnate cells, all of which characters 

 represented important divergencies from any existing type of 

 Cliaraceous plant. Reference was made to other types which 

 had not yet been worked out, especially to a large one of which 

 casts only had been found and a minute one evidently belonging 

 to the section Nitelleie, but presenting important points of 

 difference from existing forms.. 



Dr. D. H. Scott, i^Mi.S., and Dr. Marie Stopes discussed some 

 of the points raised. 



The next paper, by Prof. G. E. Nicholls, F.L.S., on "The 

 Structure of the Vertebral Column in the Anura Phaneroglossa 

 and its Importance as a basis of Classification," was read in 

 title. (See pp. 80-92.) 



Prof. Julius MacLeod, University of Ghent, followed with 

 an account of his paper on " Quantitative Variation in certain 

 Diagnostic Characters of ten Species of the Genus Maium" 

 which was communicated by Prof. F. E. Weiss, F.L.S. 



Mr. H. N. Dixon, Prof. Weiss, and Dr. D. H. Scott discussed 

 the paper, and the Author replied to their criticisms. 



Dr. M.vuiE Stopes, F.L.S. , showed lantern-slides and sections 

 of the " petrified cone of a new species of Beiinettites from the 

 English Gault." 



Additional remarks were made by Dr. D. H. Scott and 

 Prof. Weiss. 



Dr. George Henderson sent seeds of the Opium Poppy from 

 the Punjab, and of Chinese HuUess Oats, for distribution ; it was 

 stated that measures had been taken to raise these seeds, so as to 

 test the statement of their great productiveness. 



A paper by Mr. W. Lucas Distant, on the liliynchofa 

 from the Indian Ocean, the second portion, communicated by 

 Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., F.L.S., was read in title. 



The General Secretary communicated a note from Miss Louisa 

 Pershouse, of Torquay, stating that Mbnulas moscJudus had been 

 observed by her for several years as growing and increasing in 

 running water near Sticklepath, in the neighbourhood of 

 Okehampton, on the borders of Dartmoor ; the name was 

 confirmed at Kew. 



The President remarked that this plant in cultivation seems 

 to have quite lost its original musky scent, and that it would be 

 interesting to know if this escape had retained it. 



