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fiecl localities being indicated for the less widely or less frequently 

 distributed species. 



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BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Friday, 2nd June, 1848. — John Reynolds, Esq., Treasurer, in the 

 chair. 



John Price, Esq., of Denbigh, J. H. Blount, Esq., of Birmingham, 

 and Francis Harley, Esq., of Costock, Loughborough, were elected 

 members. 



The following donations were announced : — 



A collection of German mosses, presented by Dr. C. F. P. de 

 Martius, of Munich ; a collection of specimens of American Oaks, 

 with their fruit, presented by Mr. Edward Doubleday ; British plants, 

 presented by Dr. R. W. Falconer, Mr. T. Westcombe and Mr. J. H. 

 Thompson. Mr. William Andrews, M.R.I.A. (the Society's Local 

 Secretary for Dublin), exhibited a beautiful collection of living spe- 

 cimens of Irish Saxifrages, collected in Kerry, and comprising speci- 

 mens in illustration of the varieties of Saxifraga umbrosa, S. hirsuta, 

 and S. Geum. Mr. A. also presented leaves from a cultivated speci- 

 men of an apparently new species of Saxifrage, the original plant 

 having been discovered by him in Kerry, in September, 1845. In a 

 letter to Mr. G. E. Dennes, the Secretary, Mr. A. stated " that the 

 form and structure of the leaf had not before been met with or de- 

 scribed among the Saxifrages, and probably the flower might present 

 some feature of interest." Mr. S. P. Woodward presented specimens 

 of a species of Carduus, so nearly intermediate between Carduus Fors- 

 teri and C. pratensis, as to render its proper specific name doubtful 

 until a larger series of specimens shall have been examined. It 

 will probably prove an extreme form of the variety " pseudo- 

 Forsteri" (London Catalogue), frequently mistaken for the true C. 

 Forsteri. The specimens were collected by Mr. W., on the farm of 

 Mr. Thomas Arkill, at Penhill, near Swindon, Wilts, in May last. — 

 G. E. D. 



