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My remarks on the general affinity of the Order Hamamelidacee, as 
now constituted, will be few, these having already been pretty accu- 
rately determined. That its relations with other families should be 
numerous is indicated by the many modifications of structure which it 
contains within itself. Its position is evidently that which has been as- 
signed to it by Decandolle, Brongniart, and Lindley, viz. in the vicinity 
of Umbellifere, Araliacee, and Cornacee ; while it has affinities that point 
through the aberrant genera, such as Bucklandia, &c. to the amental 
and urtical tribes, through Helwingia to Euphorbiacee, through the true 
Hamamelidee to Combretacee and Alangiacee ; while through Bruniacea, — 
as shown by Brongniart, it tends towards Myrtacee by its similarity 
to Beckia. 
(To be continued.) 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
Friday, ith September, 1849.—John Reynolds Esq., Treasurer, in 
the Chair. 
The following donations were announced.—British Plants from Dr. 
Mateer, Mr. John Tatham, Mr. Henry Fordham, Mr. J. B. French, 
Mr. Thomas Moore, Mr. Robert Withers, Miss A. M. Barnard, and 
Mr. T. C. Heysham. 
Mr. C. C. Babington presented specimens of Rubus pyramidalis (Bab.) 
and Rubus incurvatus (Bab.) collected by him at Llanberis, North 
Wales, in September last. (These specimens were sent in April last, 
but had remained at the Linnzean Society in a parcel, addressed to a 
Fellow who did not happen to call there until some months afterwards.) 
Specimens of Odontites verna, and Odontites verna, var. elegans, were 
exhibited from Mr. John Ball, in illustration of the plants described by 
him iu the Botanical Gazette for September. 
A paper was read from Mr. W. H. Coleman, “ a the plants indige- 
nous to the neighbourhood of Horsham, Sussex. 
