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any doubt may occur as to a name or species, that local collections 

 be formed and placed, with the consent of the Natural History 

 Society, in the Newcastle Museum." 



" That the proposed publications be printed in a cheap form, and 

 sold at a low rate." 



C. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Friday, 3rd March. — John Reynolds, Esq., Treasurer, in the 

 chair. 



The following donations were announced : ' The Flora of Forfar- 

 shire,' by Mr. William Gardiner, presented by the author. ' Trans- 

 actions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, Vol. i. Part 1,' 

 presented by Mr. John Storey. Iceland plants from Mr. C. C. Ba- 

 bington. Mr. Thomas Turner, of Streatham Hill, Brixton Hill, and 

 the Rev. William Marsden Hind, of Pulverbatch, Shrewsbury, were 

 elected members. Specimens of the plants mentioned in Mr. Wat- 

 son's paper on some of the plants distributed by the Society in 1848 

 (See Phytol. February, 1848) were exhibited. Also a specimen of 

 Caltha palustris, sent by Mr. Watson, as one of the connecting links 

 between that species and the C. radicans; having the leaves just in- 

 termediate between those of the two figures in ' English Botany,' but 

 still more acutely crenate or dentate even than those of C. radicans 

 are represented to be. — G. E. D. 



Vegetation of the Organ Mountains. 

 (Extracted from Gardner's ' Travels in Brazil ')• 



"In order to present some general idea of the splendid scenery of 

 the country, and the leading features of this part of Brazil, I will give 

 an account of some of these excursions. There is a path by the side 

 of the great aqueduct, which has always been the favorite resort of 

 naturalists who have visited Rio ; and there is certainly no walk near 

 the city so fruitful either in insects or plants. The following notes 

 were made on the return from my first visit along the whole length of 

 the aqueduct. After reaching the head of the Laraujeiras valley, 



