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ed to prove that they were the companions of the cereal grains, and 

 with them had been introduced at a very remote period. Some of 

 them (of which several instance were given) are confined to one side 

 of the island, or to certain districts of the country, which showed that, 

 notwithstanding their probable exotic origin, they were more or less 

 subject to the laws regulating the distribution of organic life. He 

 expressed his opinion that it would be desirable, both for the interests 

 of science and agriculture, that these plants and their prevalence or 

 rarity in various districts should be recorded in our catalogues, local 

 Floras, and other works of a similar description. 



Mr. James M'Nab exhibited flowering plants of two curious species 

 of Arum (A. cordatum and A. cornutum), raised in the garden of the 

 Horticultural Society, from seeds sent home by William Jameson, 

 Esq., Saharumpore, in April, 1843. The flowering spathe of the one 

 was two feet, and of the other eighteen inches in length, both being 

 beautifully mottled with brown and yellow spots ; and, what is very 

 remarkable, the two species were sown on the same day, and after re- 

 ceiving the same treatment for about three years, flowered within 

 twenty-four hours of each other. 



Beautiful specimens of Pinguicula grandiflora, from Bandon, near 

 Cork, communicated by Miss Carpenter, Bristol ; of Vaccinium ma- 

 crocarpum, from near Mold, in Flintshire, by Dr. Bidwell, Albrighton; 

 and of Dianthus ca3sius, from the debris of Salisbury Crags, by Mr. 

 John Laing, Experimental Garden, were exhibited to the meeting. 

 — TV. W.E, 



Discovery of Sp]i(Brocarpus terrestris in Fruit near Norwich. 

 By George Fitt, Esq. 



I HAVE lately found this plant abundantly in fructification near 

 Yarmouth. Sir W. Hooker mentions in the 2d vol. of the 'British 

 Flora,' that he had never been fortunate enough to meet with it in 

 fruit, and had never seen its ripened capsules, — and he now believes 

 that they have not before been found in England. Mr. Turner, who 

 found it for many years in this neighbourhood, and to whose kindness 

 1 am indebted for a knowledge of its habitat, never gathered it in that 

 state. I have met with it only sparingly for three or four years, but 

 it has been very plentiful this season, and I first observed its capsules 

 on some patches which were laid aside in water for a few days, to 

 keep them fresh. Last week I gathered a good number in fruit, in a 



