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The plant has produced two globular spadices of pistillate flowers. As no sta- 
minate flowers have appeared on any of the plants in the Palm-house, the fruit 
flowers. A specimen of the pistilliferous spadix was exhibited. The species, 80 
far as known, has not previously produced flowers in this country. 
Mr. Elliott explained to the meeting his process of taking impressions of 
rs” The specimens are cove 
ually on both sides with the ink by means of a roller, and then placed in the 
press between sheets of paper, and pressure applied. The whole process is ex- 
1*1 sha flownanha 
Palm (Copernicia cerifera) is applied, and exhibited a series of specimens illus- 
trating the different products obtained from the tree 
Mr. Sadler noticed the occurrence of various rare species of Mosses in Britain, 
and read extracts from letters received from Miss M‘Inroy, of Lude, Mr. M‘Kin- 
lay, of Glasgow, and Mr. Wilson, of Warrington, regarding the Mosses of Blair- 
Athole, Ben-Nevis, and elsewhere. 
M‘Nab read a register of the flowering of spring plants in the open air at 
- A note was read from Captain Thomas, R.N., intimating that he had dis- 
covered Botrychium Lunaria and Ophioglossum vulgatum in Benbecula, one of 
the islands of the outer Hebrides. 
Walter Eliott, Esq., exhibited a volume of drawings executed. by Mungo 
Park, the property of Thomas Brown, Esq., of Lanfine. 
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EprNBvRGH.—April 9th.—Professor Maclagan, 
President, in the chair. 1. Note on Lemania variegata of 
By T. C. Archer, Esq. There is no more remarkable pla are 
Order Sapindacee, if regarded from an economie point of view, than Paullinia 
hardened in the sun, constitutes the substance known as 
specimens are on the table. It is used both as a remedy for various diseases, 
and also as a material for making a most refreshing beverage, and it adds 
another of those incidents so puzzling in human history of the discovery of 
