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Correction of an error in Mr. Malleson^s paper (Phytol. ii. 368). 

 By William Borrer, Esq., F.R.S. 



It may be worth while to correct an inaccuracy in Mr. Malleson's 

 late communication to the 'Phytologist' (ii. 372), into which the writer 

 was led by a too implicit reliance on my prima facie knowledge of 

 Carices. The Carex growing near Pulborough, which I took for C. 

 axillaris, proves to be the little known C. Boenninghauseniana, agree- 

 ing precisely with Mr. Coleman's Hertford plant, and with the figure in 

 Kunze's Supplement to Schkur. Dr. Bromfield has found the same in 

 the Isle of Wight, and it may very probably have been overlooked or 

 mistaken for C. axillaris in other places. Mr. Mitten has found the true 

 C. axillaris at Hurstpierpoint. C. Boenninghauseniana has the glumes 

 more membranous than C. axillaris, and the beak of the fruit not bifid, 

 differences which Mr. Malleson himself has remarked in the Pulbo- 

 rough plant. 



W. Borrer. 



Heutield, December 3, 1845. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



Nov. 13, 1845. — Dr. Douglas Maclagan, President, in the chair. 

 The President, on taking the chair, begged to offer a few remarks 

 on the present state and prospects of the Society. During the past, 

 as well as former sessions, many valuable papers had been read to 

 them, and much interesting botanical information, especially on some 

 of the more obscure classes of vegetables, had been brought before the 

 public through the medium of their Reports and Transactions. In 

 one respect only the Society had been deficient ; he meant in the at- 

 tendance of members at its meetings. This was owing, in great mea- 

 sure, to the circumstance, that almost all the members were profes- 

 sionally occupied, and, therefore, unable to give to a purely scientific 

 society, that attendance which they were able to bestow on profes- 

 sional societies and meetings. During last session, they had also felt 

 a great blank in the absence from their meetings of their former dis- 

 tinguished president, Dr. Graham, whose long and painful illness had, 

 for many months previous to his death, precluded his taking any part 

 in their proceedings. Dr. M. felt it to be unnecessary in such a 

 meeting to eulogize the character of Professor Graham. They all 



