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REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 



Cliairman : Mr. J. Lewis. 



Committee : Messes. Treutler, Edmonds, Lomax, and Miss 



Cameron. 



Secretary: Me. 'Y. Hilton, 16, Kensington Place. 



The meetings of the Section have not been very largely 

 attended, but arood work has been done and interesting papers 

 have been read. There have been a few Excursions of the 

 Section, but they have been very poorly attended. Special 

 thanks are due to Mr. Hilton and Mr. Farr for the numerous 

 and valuable additions they have made to the Society's 

 Herbarium of Sussex Plants. Subjoined is a Report of Botanical 

 finds during 1895 and early in 1896, which Mr. Hilton has drawn 

 up for the Committee. 



The Papers read before the Section have been as follows : — 



1895. Oct. 31st. The Botanical Finds of the year: Mr. T. 



Hilton. 



1896. Jan. 23rd. Wind-Fertilized Plants: Mr. Henet 



Edmonds, B.Sc. 

 „ Feb. 27th. British Ferns : Mh. J. Lewis. 

 „ March 26th. Botanical Writings of Theophrastus : Mr. 



Salmon. 

 „ April 23rd. Piimulas : Mr. Shrobsole. 



„ May 20th. Mosses : Mr. Nicholson. 



BOTANICAL FINDS DURING THE YEAR. 



Since last year's report the plants in the Society's Herbarium 

 have very much increased m number, there being over 900 speci- 

 mens mounted and named. To Mr. Farr, of Uckfield, our thanks 

 are especially due for contributing many specimens from tlie 

 forest region of Sussex, which are not likely to be found by 

 occasional visitors. Among them are sevei-al brambles that have 

 not been reported from Sussex before, Habenaria Albida (White 

 Habenaria) only found in one place in Sussex at intervals of 

 years. Also Osmunda Regalis (Flowering Fern) now nearly ex- 



