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 BOTANICAL SECTION. 



A Meeting was held on the 5th December, 1898. 



Mr. Lewis gave an account of a visit to Norway, and plants 

 added to the Herbarium during the year was examined. 



At a Meeting on the 17th May, 1899, the Committee and 

 Officers were re-elected. 



Three evening Excursions were arranged for during the 

 year, but only one was, through unsettled weather, successful. 

 Six members attended, that to Hassocks sandpits and Clayton 

 Downs, and some interesting specimens were collected. 



T. HILTON, Secretary. 



Since the last Report the following have been added to the 

 Society's Herbarium of Sussex plants : — 



Erodium Cicutarium, b. choerophyllum. Newmarket Hill. 



Zanichellia brachystemon. Sidlesham Mills. 



Zanichellia pedunculata. Rye. 



Prunus cerasus. Iford. 



Scirpus pauciflorus. Henfield Common. 



(Enanthe silaifolia. Bury. 



Potamogeton friesii. Iford. 



Orobanche elatior. Iford. 



Chenopodium vulvaria. Shoreham. 



Agrimonia odorata. Storrington. 



Bunias orientalis. Hassocks. 



Rubus dumnoniensis. Seaford. 



Rubus echinatus. Race Hill, Brighton. 



MICROSCOPICAL SECTION. 



Two Meetings have been held during the Session, viz., on 

 January 25th and March 29th, at the first of which Mr. D. E. 

 Caush gave a demonstration of " Dark Ground Dry Mounting," 

 and at the latter took up the subject of " Mounting Starch 

 Grains, Pollen, &c., in Carbolized Water." Both demonstrations 

 were followed by an exhibition of slides. 



DOUGLAS CAUSH, 



Chairman. 



W. W. MITCHELL, 



Hon. Sec. Micro, Section. 

 May 25th, 1899. 



