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This spieijuiu moss, of which a specimen and aiawmg were exuiuiieu, 

 has been named D. superba, by Dr. Greville. It was received among 

 specimens from Australia ; the specimen exhibited was fourteen 

 inches high, with leaves fully an inch in length. 



3. Notice of Palms at present in flower in the Royal Botanic Gar- 

 den. By Dr. Balfour. He described Livistona chinensis, Mart., 

 and exhibited a specimen of the flowering spadix, and a drawing of 

 the plant. The plant in the garden is about thirty-six years old, 

 twenty-five feet high, and the stem at ' the base has a diameter of 

 twenty-two inches. The leaves are upwards of thirteen feet long, and 

 the blade of the leaf seven feet across ; the spadices four to four-and- 

 a-half feet long. It is believed that this is the first time the palm has 

 flowered in Britain. Dr. B. exhibited the spadix and flowering stem 

 of Euterpe montana, Graham, or mountain cabbage-palm; and stated 

 that the plant in the garden used to fruit regularly, but of late years 

 no fruit has been produced, although it continues to flower abun- 

 dantly. The palm is now thirty feet in height. He also mentioned 

 that a specimen of Chameerops humilis, or European fan-palm, in the 

 garden, which has for many years produced starainiferous flowers 

 only, had this season produced staminiferous and pistilliferous flow- 

 ers, and that the fruit was apparently perfect. 



Dr. 5alfour stated that he had obtained information that the Lu- 

 zula nivea, discovered last year in a wood near Broomhall, by Dr. 

 Dewar, had been planted there by the former gardener, so that it can 

 have no claim to rank as a British plant. 



The following gentlemen were admitted ordinary members : Nicol- 

 son C. Mackenzie, Esq., 4, Hill Square; Luiz A. da Camara, Esq., 

 62, Hanover Street, Edinburgh; and Thomas Inraan, Esq., M.D., 

 Liverpool.— IPF. W. E. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



April 9, 1847. — Edward Doubleday, Esq., Vice President, F.L.S., 

 in the chair. 



The following donations were announced : — 



' Cybele Britannica,' vol. i., by Mr. Hewett Watson, presented 

 by the author ; ' Outlines of Botany ' (Parts 3 and 4), by Mr. A. 

 Henfrey, presented by the author ; ' Journal of the Royal Agricultu- 

 ral Society of England,' presented by that Society ; ' On the Preven- 



