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teresting plants, especially in the western Ghats. Coloured drawings 

 of most of them had been executed by a native (Mahratta) draughts- 

 man who accompanied him. Specimens of many of the plants he 

 purposes to send to the herbarium of the University of Edinburgh, 

 under the charge of the Botanical Society. 



Dr. Balfour also read a letter from Dr. H. Giraud, also an active 

 member of the Society, dated Bombay, 26th February. In this letter 

 Dr. Gu'aud gave an account of the Horticultural Society's Garden at 

 Bombay, of which he is Secretary, and alluded generally to the na- 

 ture of the vegetation in the neighbourhood. He also noticed the 

 mode of instruction adopted in the Medical College at Bombay, in 

 which he lectures on Chemistry, Materia Medica and Botany. — 

 W. W. E. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



June bill, 1846. — Edward Doubleday, Esq., V. P., F.L.S., in the 

 chair. 



Dr. Dewar presented a specimen of Luzula nivea, discovered near 

 Broomhall, Fifeshire. Dr. D. considers this plant undoubtedly wild 

 in that locality. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens of Ranunculus aquatilis approaching very near to Ra- 

 nunculus Lenormandi, but differing by their more completely tripar- 

 tite leaves, and the more lateral position of the style on the grown 

 fruit. Sent by Mr. Hewett Watson, from Esher Common, Surrey. 



Specimens of a Filago, which would be referred to Filago germani- 

 ca by English botanists, but which is thought likely to prove a dis- 

 tinct species by its discoverer, the Rev. G. E. Smith, who communi- 

 cated the following descriptive account of the plant, along with the 

 specimens for the Society's herbarium. 



" Filago (apiculata : provisional name). Sandy borders o/Jields, 

 hedge-hanks and road-sides, Cantley, Rossington, &c., near Don- 

 caster. 



" ^iexnjlexuose, copiously downy, more or less erect. Leaves alter- 

 nate, scattered upon the stem and branches, sessile, spathulale, or 

 spathulate-cordate, or coi'date-oblong, or, beneath the heads of flow- 

 ers, obsoletely hastate, all apicidate ; smoother above, pale green, 

 icilh the odour of the tansey. Heads of few flowers, ten to ticcnty, 



