BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 91 
Botanical Society, Feb. 2nd, 1849. 
John Reynolds, Esq., Treasurer, in the Chair. 
Various donations to the Library were announced, and six new 
members electe 
British Plants had been received from Mr. Hewett Watson, Mr. A. 
Henfrey, Mr. G. Reece, Dr. Bidwell, Mr. F. J. A. Hort, The Reverend 
John Bigge, Mr. G. Francis, Mr. G. Maw, The Reverend W. R. Crotch, 
Mr. A. H. Balfour, Mr. G. Lawson, and Miss M. Beevor ; and Foreign 
Plants from Mr. G. Francis. 
Several specimens from Mr. Hewett Watson, Mr. F. Barham, Mr 
W. H. Purchas, and Mr. S. P. Woodward, in illustration of recently 
distinguished species, curious varieties, &c., were exhibited. Among 
them were examples of Hieracium alpinum, with the scapes branched 
and leafy, showing a transition to the section of stem-producing 
species. Also a curious example of Carex atrata, in which the character 
and position of the flower spikes were widely different from their ordi- 
nary condition, giving to the specimen, at first sight, an appearance 
similar to that of a very luxuriant C. rigida; the terminal spike being 
almost entirely male, and cylindrical, four inferior spikes of female 
flowers, with a few males interspersed, cylindrical, or oblong, erect, and 
placed rather distantly one below another, the ese about three inches 
beneath the terminal male spike. The specimen had grown in Mr. 
Watson's garden on a root of Carex atrata roig from the Grampians 
a few years ago. 
Mr. I. T. Mackay. 
We are glad to learn that Trinity College, Dublin, has so duly ap- 
preciated the services rendered to Botany and Horticulture by the able 
Curator of their Botanic Garden, Mr. I. T. Mackay, that they have 
unanimously conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. 
