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BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Friday, November 3, 1848.— J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



The following donations were announced : — 



'The Hand-Book of British Ferns,' by T. Moore, presented by the 

 author ; ' Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 Liverpool during the 36th Session,' presented by that Society ; Parts 

 1 and 2 of Vol. i. of the ' Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' 

 Field Club,' presented by the Club. 



T. C. Hunt, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul at St. Michael's, presented 

 a bo*x of Azorean specimens, including four species not previously 

 known to occur in those isles, one of them being a remarkable hand- 

 some Vicia, but whether a new species, or one already described, has 

 not yet been satisfactorily ascertained. 



Mr. Hewett Watson presented some foreign plants, chiefly Euro- 

 pean and Canarian. 



British plants had been received from Mr. Hewett Watson, Dr. 

 Bromfield, Dr. Bossey, Dr. Dewar, Mr. G. S. Gibson, Mr. J. B. 

 French, the Rev. Andrew Bloxam, the Rev. H. Marsham, Mr. H. 

 Taylor, Mr. T. Bentall, Mr. James Ward, Mr. J. Hussey, Mr. R. 

 Withers, Mr. G. Lawson, Mr. W. B. Booth, Mr. J. Storey, Mr. S. 

 Hailstone, Mr. B. D. Wardale, Mr. James Bladon, Mr. J. L. Law- 

 rence, Mr. F. Barham, Mr. J. W. Salter, the Rev. T. Butler, Mr. S. P. 

 Woodward, Mr. T. Moore, Mr. E. G. Varenne, Mr. D. Price, Mr. J. 

 Reynolds, Mr. G. Cooper, Mr. J. Rich, Mr. G. Rich, and Mr. G. E. 

 Dennes. 



W. Brown, Esq., G. Hickman, Esq., R. Withers, Esq., and J. 

 Stewart, Esq., were elected members. 



Mr. W. B. Booth exhibited a specimen of Erica Watsoni, one of 

 the intermediate forms between E. ciliaris and E. Tetralix, referred 

 to the former species by Mr. Bentham, in De Candolle's Prodromus, 

 but to the latter species by Mr. Watson, its first discoverer many 

 years ago. The specimen presented by Mr. Booth resembled both 

 E. Tetralix and E. Mackaii more closely than it resembled E. ciliaris, 

 although still inclining partially to the last of these three by its ven- 

 tricose corolla. Though apparently a hybrid between the two, with 

 intermediate characters, the aristate anthers assign it to E. Tetralix 

 in preference to E. ciliaris. — G. E. D. 



E. NEWMAN, PRINTER, 0, DEVONSHIRE STREET, BISHOPSGATE STBEET. 



