274 BEPOUT OF THE BOTANICAL TCXCnANGE CLUB. 



in insect-tenanted plants ; the Dicotyledons are in coarse of arrange- 

 ment. Other contributions have been received from Boreau, Prof. ; 

 ]iull, W. ; Grisebach, Prof. ; Holmes, E. M. ; Leybold, Dr. F. ; Yeiteh, 

 Messrs. ; Winter, A. 



ArsTKALAsiA AXD POLYNESIA. — Bemays, L. A. ; QuGcnsland Accli- 

 matisation Society (4). Cheeseman, T. F. ; New Zealand (2). Hector, 

 Dr.; New Zealand (90). Kirk, T. ; New Zealand (12). Mueller, 

 liaron von ; Australian plants ; plants of Lord Howe's Island ; Edu- 

 cational Collection, Part II. (86). Powell, Eev. T. ; Samoan plants 

 (2.33). Schomburgk, Dr. 11. ; plants from vicinity of Lake Eyre (271). 

 Whitmee, Rev. S. J. ; Samoan plants ; the Perns have been described 

 by Mr. Baker in the " Journal of Botany " (178). 



REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF THE BOTANIC.\L 

 EXCHANGE CLTJB FOR THE YEAR 1875. 



[We have extracted the more important portions only of this Report, 

 omitting much matter which has ^leen already published in the pages 

 of this Journal. — Ed. Journ, Bot.'] 



ThaJictrum mmits, Linn., var. " Cheddar ClifTs, Somerset, Septem- 

 ber, 1875." — J. G.Baker. I think it is T. mmus, var. montanum, but 

 hesitate between that name and JlexNosum ; some of the fruits in the 

 separate paper resembling the one, and some the other. I should have 

 been inclined to think that the long and comparatively slender fruits, 

 like those of 2\ /lexuosum, had not been matured when the plant was 

 gathered, had it not been that I have an undoubted specimen of T. 

 flexuosum from Cheddar Cliffs, collected by Mr. T. B. Flower. It is, 

 however, quite possible that both these forms of T. minus grow at 

 Cheddar. I have sown some of the seeds from Mr. Baker's plant, 

 which, if they germinate, will enable me_ to decide the matter. — J. 



T. BOSWELL. 



ThaUctnim majus, Sm., flexuosum, Bab. Man. " Shore of Loch 

 Tay, Mid Perth, July 14, 1874."— Augustin Ley. This is what I 

 consider typical T. flexuosum. I have had in cultivation from this 

 station for some years a root sent by Mr. Frederic Stratton. It runs 

 at the root, and the fruit is about twice the length of that of T. 

 maritimum and montanum. The young leaves of the Loch Tay plant 

 break through the ground about a fortnight later than those of T. 

 maritimum from Kirkcaldy and T. montanum from Derbyshire, and 

 about the same time with those of T. ' saxatile ' from Cambridge- 

 shire. J. T. BOSAVELL. 



Tlialictrum flavum, Linn., "a. sphcerocarpum.'''' " River Leam at 

 Offchurch, AVarwickshire, June and August, 1873." — II. Bromwich. 

 All the fruits on the specimens sent are diseased, probably from a 

 gall, so that it is impossible to say to which form of T. flarum this 

 belongs. All the British Thalictra are liable to this deformity, but 

 T. flexuosum seems the one most frequently attacked by the disease. — 



J. T. BoSWELL. 



