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Council, thus filling the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. 

 Currey. — Mr. George Murray exhibited a bough of Pinus Pinaster, 

 in which the interuodes of the lateral branches were suppressed, 

 the result of injury to the axis from which they sj)rung. — Mr. C. 

 B. Clarke read a paper " On a Hampshire Orchis not represented 

 in ' English Botany.' " This was a pale flesh-coloured or yellowish 

 Orchis of the same section as, but with denser cylindric spike than, 

 0. latifolia. By comparison of the authentic specimen and 

 description of LinntEus, and of the specimen in Fries' * Herbarium 

 Normale,' Mr. Clarke desired to show that the pale Hampshire 

 Orchis is the true 0. incarnata, L. ; and that the 0. incarnata of 

 Syme and Babington is (as Smith and Sowerby called the same 

 identical plate in Eng. Bot.) 0. latifolia, L. Mr. Clarke main- 

 tained that, at all events, the pale Hampshire Orchis had not yet 

 been figured among English j)lants. 



December 1, 1881. — Sir John Lubbock, Bart., President, in the 

 chair. — Capt. P. Greene, G. S. Jenman, W. Landaw, E. G. AVarn- 

 ford Lock, Eev. T. P. H. Sturges, Lieut. -Col. C. Swinhoe, G. C. 

 Walton, C. S. Wilkinson, G. S. V. Wills, and Eev. G. Wilson, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. — Mr. J. Harris Stone ex- 

 hibited dried specimens of Lychm Yiscaria, and made some remarks 

 on the plant as a trap for ants. He pointed out that three or four 

 glutinous or sticky rings are situate immediately underneath the 

 nodes in the flowering stalks. Ants climbing the stems are 

 arrested and die in numbers at the sticky zones, and few reach the 

 flowers. In Norway last summer he had observed as many as 

 95 per cent of the plants with dead and dying ants thereon ; and 

 he therefore submits whether the zones are a protection to the 

 flowers, the ants noxious, or that their dead bodies ultimately 

 serve as nutriment and are absorbed by the plant ? — Dr. Maxwell 

 Masters read a Note on the Foliation and Kamification of Budd- 

 leia auricnlata. In this plant the leaves are opposite ; but between 

 the petioles — one on each side of the axis — is a small leafy auricle, 

 the interpretation of which by descriptive botanists has been as 

 varied as vague. The author seeks to show, from a study of the 

 mode of development and other considerations, that the auricles in 

 question represent leaves of a whorl, so that the verticil consists of 

 two perfect and two imperfect leaves. An additional link between 

 Lofjaniaceo) and Paihiacem is thus aftbrded. Further details were 

 given concerning the multiple axillary buds in this plant and the 

 supra- axillary shoots. Some of the XDeculiarities alluded to are 

 usually explained on the hypothesis of fusion ; but the author 

 shows that in this, as in many similar cases, the appearances are 

 due to an arrest of development, in consequence of which jDarts 

 that should become free, in course of growth, remain inseparate, 

 and in some cases are uplifted with the axis as it lengthens, and 

 are thus removed from their normal position. 



December 15. — George Busk, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — Messrs. W. H. Coffin, E. Milner, and S. H. Parkes were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. — A pa^^er by Dr. Maxwell Masters 

 followed, dealing with a new species of cotton [Gossypiiun Kirkii) 



