12-i PKOCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Bull. Bot. Soc. Behjique (xvii., pt. 1).^ — ' Report of demonstration 

 in honour of DuMortier, 5 May, 1878 ' (with portrait). — L. Errera 

 and G. Gervaert, * On the structure and modes of fecundation of 

 flowers, and especially on the heterostyly of Primula elatior ' 

 (tab. 1). — L. Errera, * On Pentstemon gentianoides and P. Hartwer/L' 



Flora. — W. J. Behrens, ' On the nectaries of flowers ' (contd.) 

 — C. Kraus, ' On the tissues composing foliage and flower-leaves ' 

 (continued). 



Botanische Zeitunr/. — E. Godlewski, 'On the causes of the 

 change of form in etiolated plants.' — E. Stahl, ' On the resting- 

 state of Vauchcria geminata ' (tab. 2). 



Magyar Nov. Lapok. — J. L. Holuby, ' Mycological Notes,' iii. 



procteirtus^ of Soctrtus. 



LiNNEAN Society of London. 



Januanj, 16, 1879. — William Carruthers, Esq., F.R.S., Vice- 

 President, in the chau-. — The following gentlemen were elected 

 Fellows of the Society: — George Brook, Esq., Huddersfield ; 

 Artlim- Pearce Luff, Esq., Marylebone ; John Edward Griffiths, 

 Esq., Bangor; Charles Sharpe, Esq., Liverpool; and John 

 Woodland, Esq., Kilburn Park. — Prof. Allen Thompson exhibited 

 and made some remarks on a block of wood, during the growth of 

 which a portion of the shank-bone of an ox had become centrally 

 enclosed. He also called attention to an imperfect frond of a palm 

 [Chaimcerops /), asserted to have been discovered within a plank of 

 rosewood. — Mr. Christy made some observations upon the 

 Chalmugra tree (Ggjiocardia odurata) and its therapeutical properties. 

 — The following paper was read: — ' On the Colchicacea and aberrant 

 tribes of the Liliacea,'' by J. G. Baker. This forms the sixth of 

 the author's monographs on the Liliacea. Colchicacea is the 

 smallest of the three sub-orders of Liliaceir,'sind. includes 39 genera 

 and 153 species. Li its typical form it is marked by extrorse anthers, 

 a septicidal capsule, and three distinct styles ; but as twenty-four out 

 of the thu'ty-nine genera do not possess all these three characters in 

 combination, but recede more or less decidedly from the type in 

 the direction of true Liliacece, it seems injudicious to follow those 

 who have proposed to keep up Colchicaceoi or MclanthacciC as a 

 distinct Natural Order. The tribes adopted by the author are : — 



1, Colcliicf'fc, marked by the type-characters of the sub-order in 

 combination with a gamophyllous XDerianth and bilocular anthers; 



2, 2IerendtTe(f, with the type-characters of the sub-order in 

 combination with a polyphyllous perianth and bilocular anthers ; 



3, Veratrca', with the type-characters of the suborder in combination 

 with unilocular anthers ; 4 and 5, AnguiUariea: and Hcloniecc, which 

 recede from the type by their loculicidal caj)sule ; 6, Uvulariew, 



