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Ml'. Ai.Kiir.i) liiyoi.ssoN ♦rxhiLileJ tlio jialato of tlio Eayle Hay, 

 found in the Mediterranean. 



Mr. T. C. Anciii'.ii oxhil>it«;d a jiiece of tissue de verre. It had 

 tho ainiearauce of gold oniLroider}' upon a ground work of crimson 

 8a tin. 



Tht- CiiAiu.MAN Haid he had sften some kinds of tissue de verre very 

 much resembling cloth of gold, and, in conversing with Colonel 

 Culvert upon the subject, he had been informed that that description 

 was in groat demand in India. The native princes and great men 

 thought much of gilded garments and decorations, and cloth of 

 gold was very expensive. The gold was woven cither on cotton or 

 linen, which was liable to he attacked by ants. 'J'hey had consequently 

 adopted tissue de verre, the glass contained in which was not relished 

 by those destructive little creatures. 



Tho following paper was then read ; — 



ON THE NATURAL PRODUCTS OF THi': LEGUMINOSiE, 

 Ly T. C. archer, Esci., v.r. 

 Modern botanists divide tho Lefjumiuosa into three sub-orders 

 which have well marked characteristics ; thus, those with the true pea- 

 HJiupcid flowers, consisting of carina, alec, and vcxilliim, for the suborder 

 I'upUionacea; ; those in which the petals are developed more regu- 

 larly after the normal character of perigynous Exogens, form the 

 ('msulpincu; ; and those which have perfectly regular flowers, but with 

 an indelinilo numlior of sUunons often so much developed as to hide 

 the minute corolla, constitute tho sub-order Mimosew It is under 

 those stib divisions 1 intend arranging tho subjects of my present 

 piipor. i''irst, then, 



bUB-ORDER — rAPIMONACEiF,. 



Tlio plants of this group are generally, thou;;li not always, whole- 

 some ; many yifdding a sweet herbage for cattle, as the vetch or tare 

 ( Vicia saliva), lucerne ( Medicago saliva), white clover (TrifoUum 

 repens), pur{)le, or common clover (T. jmitensej, flesh-coloured clover 

 (T. invar naliDii), Alexandrian clover (T. AlcxandriinimJ, iind many 

 other species, Saintfoin (Onobrychis saliva), the L'espcrcet of the 

 French, EaparzeUa of the Germans, and Ccdrangola of tho Italians, is 

 one of the most valuable of all the fodder plants. Besides these well 

 known species there are ut least a hundred others, more or less 

 valuable in the form of herbage for cattle. 



Hut tho chief value of the PapHionacece is found in their seeds, 

 which are mostly wholesome, and owing to the large )>roportion of 

 gluten they contain, relatively to the other constituents, they are 



