4 Proceedings. 



Lancashire. Gathered last August by Mr. Whitehead, but 

 as C. fcetida ; and again by Mr. C. Bailey in September, who 

 kindly sent me a specimen. I saw at once it was a species 

 new to Britain, and it was so announced at the Southport 

 Meeting of the British Association. A well-marked species 

 and generally distributed on the Continent, and extending to 

 Africa and America. 



Carex trinervis, Degland. — Found by Mr. Glaspoole on 

 sand-hills in Norfolk. 



This list comprises nineteen species, of which thirteen are 

 aquatic plants, showing that our rivers, canals, and lakes are 

 far from exhausted. 



Of other extremely local plants, Naias flexilis, R., known 

 up till 1880 from Ireland only, has been found in several 

 E. Perth lochs by Mr. Sturrock. 



Liparis Loeselii, the rare Fen Orchis, I have seen from 

 Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridge this year. 



Senecio palustris, DC, another fen rarity, I have seen in 

 Norfolk this year, and know of at least three stations in that 

 county and one in Suffolk where it still occurs. 



Lobelia urens, L., long known from Devonshu'e, has been 

 gathered by Mr. Briggs in E. Cornwall ; but a lady was really 

 the discoverer some two or three years ago. 



Senecio spathulifoikis, DC. — Long known under the name of 

 Cineraiia campestris var., from Anglesea, until Mr. Griffiths 

 sent Prof. Babington seeds and fresh specimens, who deter- 

 mined it to be the above, and figured and described it in the 

 ' Journal of Botany.' Mr. Backhouse, of York, has found 

 what seems to be the same plant in N. Yorkshire. A Western 

 and Central European species. 



Dr. Bossey exhibited under the microscope the protoplastic 

 movement in Nitella opaca. 



Mr. E. Lovett presented his paper on 'Preparing Embryo- 

 logical Organisms ' ; and Mr. John Linnell presented a copy 

 of ' Physiogi'apliy,' by Prof. Huxley. 



Mr. W. H. Tyndall read the following ' Meteorological Notes 

 for 1883':— 



The barometer has not shown any great fluctuations during 



