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viz., Crescentia, Parmentiera, Mi7iquartia, Kigelia, Tripinnaria and 

 Senapea. The genus Managa, Aublet, Mr. Miers avers, belongs to the 

 AurantiacecB. liacceria, Aublet, does not come under Sapindacea, 

 as DeCandolle supposed, but under MeliacccE, and is allied to Melia 

 and Aziderachta, Juss. — ' On the Inflorescence of Crassulacem,' by 

 Dr. Maxwell Masters. Though devoted principally to the above 

 named group, the paper discusses the schemes of classification pro- 

 posed by Koeper, Bravais, and others, as also the emendations of 

 Hofmeister, Sachs, and the modern German school of botanists. 

 He proposes a rearrangement under the heads of Monopodial or 

 indefinite, Choripodial or dichotomous, and Pleiopodial or definite, 

 the latter comprising the sympodial varieties. The modifications 

 brought about by suppressions, adhesions, congenital or otherwise, 

 real or apparent, and by disj^lacemeuts of varying kind and degree, 

 he alludes to, the general conclusion being that while suppressions 

 and adhesions do occasionally occur, yet that in most instances the 

 phenomena witnessed might easily be explained by disj)lacement 

 of parts, and especially by that process of elongation known as 

 uplifting. The history of development as well as the internal 

 structure he believes are consistant with this latter view, but not, 

 as a rule, with the theory of adhesion. 



March 6. — William Carruthers, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the 

 Society : — Prof. Joseph Eeay Greene, Dr. Paul Henry Stokoe, Mr. 

 Eobert Johnston (Tasmania), Mr. B. S. Williams, and Prof. J. 

 Wood-Mason. — Mr. Thos. Christie exhibited and made remarks on 

 a series of specimens illustrating the Australian " Pituri." — Mr. E. 

 Irwin Lynch directed attention to a growing example, from Kew 

 Gardens, and some of the dried leaves of Xanthosoma appendiculatimi, 

 on the under surface of which peculiar pouch-like excrescences 

 emanate from the midrib. This pseudo-monstrosity is of remark- 

 ably constant occurrence. — A letter was read by the Secretary from 

 Mr. J. Travers, in which allusion was made to the increased 

 production (from 4 to 12 per cent) of beet-root sugar by a careful 

 artificial selection of the plants. On the contrary, the saccharine 

 produce of the sugar-cane remains stationary, if not retrograde, 

 and its continuous multiplication from stolons some regard as 

 giving rise to various diseases. Crossing and selection are suggested 

 as worthy of a trial. — The following paiJers were read: — 'Obser- 

 vations on the Entozoic Florideae growing in living Bryozoa and 

 Sponges,' by Dr. P. F. Eeinsch. The parasitic growths described 

 in this communication have already received elucidation by the 

 same author in the 'Botanische Zeitung' for January. — 'Note on 

 the fruiting of Wistaria sinensis in Europe,' by W. T. Thiselton 

 •Dyer. In this the author was at variance with the statements and 

 inference drawn by Mr. Thos. Meehan ('Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot.,' 

 xvii., p. 93), and quoted by the Eev. G. Henslow (' Trans. Linn. Soc' 

 s.n., vol. i., p. 335). Mr. Dyer, from his own and others' 

 observations on the plant grown at Glyon, east end of the Lake of 

 Geneva, asserts that Wistaria trained on the walls there yields 

 annually abundance of brown tomentose pods. Near the town of 



