222 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



' Additions to flora of Minorca.' — M. Cornu, * On Rhizopogon 

 hiteolus and Lenzites sepiaria.' — Bainier, ' Note on two vars. of 

 Arthotricha.' — D. Clos, * Plants of S. Jean de-Luz.* — M. Patro- 

 uillard, ' On endocarxDic prolification in flowers of Gentiana lutea.' 

 — J. Poissou, ' On disengagement of heat accompanying withering 

 of flowers in Dioon ediile.' — X. Gillot, ' On Viola Crijana.' 



Bull. Soc. But. Belyique (xvii., pt. 2, 3). — 0. Hecking, ' Report 

 of the herborization of the Society, 1878.' — A. Cogniaux, 'Remarks 

 on Brazihan Cucurbitacea.' — A. Deseglise and T. Durand, 'De- 

 scriptions of new Mints ' [twenty-four forms of Mentha sylvestris.] 



Bat. TUhhkrift (ser. 3, ii., pt. 4. — J. Lange and H. Mortensen, 

 • Review of new and rare Danish species, 1872-78 ' (concluded). 



Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. (No. 101). — A. W. Bennett, * Notes on 

 cleistogamic flowers, chiefly of Viola, Oxalis, and Impatiens.' — G. 

 Dickie, ' Notes on Aly(£ from Lake Nyassa.' — J. Miers, ' On the 

 SymplocacecB.' — R. J. Lynch, ' On branch-tubers and tendi'ils of 

 Vitis yonyylodes ' (tab. 15). — C. B. Clarke, ' Note on Gardenia 

 turyida.' — W. Mansell Weale, * Note on S. African Orchids.' — Rev. 

 G. Henslow, ' On absorption of rain and dew by green parts 

 of plants.' — H. Trimeii, * On the genus Oudneya, Br.' — W. T. 

 Thiselton-Dyer, ' Note on fL'uiting of Wistaria sinensis in Europe.' 



ptoctrttngs of Soctettes. 



LiNNEAN Society of London. 



Ajyril 5, i(S7P.— Wilham Carruthers, F.R.S., Vice-President, in 

 the chau*. — Ferdinand Coles, Esq.; W. A. Forbes, Esq.; and 

 Dr. N. S. Whitney w^ere elected Fellows of the Society. — Mr. W. T. 

 Thiselton Dyer exhibited the inflorescence of Gynerinm saccha- 

 roideum, grown at Kew ; originally obtained through Dr. Cap- 

 penemar, of Buenos Ayi-es. — Dr. Henry Trimen exhibited the 

 unique specimen of Balsamodendrum Myrrha, Nees, collected by 

 Hildebrandt in Somali Land, and kindly lent by the authorities of 

 the Royal Berlin Herbarium to be figured in 'Medicinal Plants.' 

 It was gathered in 1873, and possesses but few leaves and a single 

 fruit. The traveller saw the myi-rli exuding on the tree. For 

 comparison with this specimen there were also exhibited the 

 original type specimens of B. Myrrha, Nees (also from the Berlin 

 Herbarium), collected by Ehrenberg in Arabia ; and Dr. Trimen 

 observed that, so far as the scanty material enabled a judgment to 

 be formed, the statement of Hildebrandt that the two plants are 

 identical (Sitzungsber. Gesellsch. Naturf. Freunde zu Berlin, 

 Nov. 1878, p. 196) is sustained.''' The specimens of Ehrenberg's 

 other myrrh plant, 7j>. Ehrenheryianuui, Berg, with his notes 

 attached (which it is stated in Hanbury's ' Pharmacographia ' 

 could not be found at Berlin in 1872), were also shown, as well as 



* For further particulars bee a paper in ' Pliarm. Juurn.' May b, 1879, p. 893. 



