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commiiuicated to the Club his discovery of an undescribed 

 species of Sparrjaniim or bur-reed, allied to the commou Spar- 

 fjanium ramosiiiii, but differing in a very marked way in its seed 

 from that species. • The new species he has named Sjnmjaniiim 

 neglectum. He has found it in more than one locality in the 

 county of Surrey, and I have specimens of it in my herbarium, 

 gathered some years ago at Fairlight Glen, near Hastings. In 

 the South of England it appears to be at least as generally dis- 

 tributed as the commou form. It is greatly to Mr. Beeby's 

 credit that he has discriminated this thoroughly good and well- 

 marlvfd species, which has doubtless passed unobserved through 

 the hands of many excellent botanists before him. 



Mr. Becby also described other additions he has made to the 

 Surrey Flora during 1884, illustrating his remarks by excellent 

 specimens of all the species referred to (see Tkans., art. 41). 



Mr. Straker exhibited fresh specimens of Dentaria bulbifera, 

 Myosotis si/lvatica, and other rare plants from Surrey localities. 



Mr. Bennett and Mr. Epps also exhibited rare plants. 



Dr. Carpenter exhibited a fine series of Upper Greeusand 

 Fossils fi-om Haldon Hill, near Exeter, and Devonian fossils 

 from Teignmouth and Dartmoor ; he addressed the members upon 

 them, and has kindly furnished the following summaiy: — 



" Haldon Hill is a furze-crowned hill between Teignmouth 

 and Dartmoor, which reaches an elevation of 870 feet above the 

 sea level. The fossils are found on the top of the hill in the 

 Upper Greensaud overlying the Gault, but intermixed with 

 masses of flint from which the chalk has been washed away, 

 apparently by the action of rain rather than of the sea, pointmg 

 to the cotemporaneous formation of the Upper Greensand and 

 the Lower Chalk, rather than the one antecedent to the other. 

 Another point of interest is that the hill must apparently 

 have been slow^ly raised out of the ocean, so as to have pre- 

 served the delicate corals exhibited, which seemed to be found 

 exactly in the position in which they lived and were fossilized. 

 Amongst the species exhibited were Exogyra conica and Pecten 

 quaibicostus, fossils characteristic of the Upper Greensand, 

 Isostnm oblonga, Gervillia anceps, Ostraa carinata, Trigona (spec), 

 Spongia ramosa, and others." 



An interesting discussion followed Mr. Beeby's and Dr. Car- 

 penter's communications. 



Our new photographic section put itself en evidence by the 

 exhibition of a most interesting series of local views, chiefly 

 taken by Messrs. Low Sargeant, Allen and CoUyer. 



The fifth ordinary meeting, being the first after the summer 

 recess, was held on September 9th. No formal paper was read, 

 but the meeting was an interesting one, and hacf ample matter 

 brought before it to occupy the evening. 



