220 General Meeting of the Society. 
Locality. Meadows and pastures. P. Fl. September, October. 
Area, 1.2.3.4. 5. In all the Districts, more or less distributed. 
The flowers appear in succession, rising from the cormus, with a 
very long narrow ¢ude, surrounded at the base with a membraneous 
sheath. The stamens are inserted on the oblong-ovate segments of 
the pale purple perianth. Germen at the base of the cormus, the 
long, thread-like sty/es running up the whole length of the tube. 
The leaves and fruit appear in spring, and are withered before 
summer. A remarkable variety of this species, C. autumnale, flor. 
serotinis, Engl. Bot. t. 1432, was found by the late William Salmon, 
Esq., for many successive seasons in a field of rough furze pasture, 
called the Nine Hills, near Drew’s Pond, Devizes (Sowth-middle 
District), bearing its flowers and leaves together, in the months of 
April and May, but the former are abortive, in consequence of their 
tardy unseasonable development. The lengthened segments of the 
perianth, and its pale greenish hue contrast strongly with the ordinary 
habit of the plant. I have repeatedly visited the locality for several 
years past but have never been successful in finding a specimen, and 
the field being ploughed up, this interesting plant is I fear now 
destroyed. 
General AMecting of the Society for 1871. 
=< HE general annual meeting of the Society was held December 
29th, 1871, at two o’clock, at the Savings Bank, Devizes, 
(Sir John Awdry in the chair,) at which the proceedings were con- 
fined to the reading of the Report, the election of officers for the 
year ensuing, and the adjournment for three weeks, for the further 
consideration of the proposal for the purchase by subscription, of 
premises for a Museum and Library at Devizes. 
