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BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Friday ', February % 1849. — John Reynolds, Esq., Treasurer, in 

 the chair. 



The following donations were announced : — 



British plants from Mr. H ewett Watson, Mr. A. Henfrey, Mr. G. 

 Reece, Dr. Bidwell, Mr. F. J. A. Hort, the Rev. John Bigge, Mr. G. 

 Francis, Mr. G. Maw, the Rev. W. R. Crotch, Mr. A. H. Balfour, 

 Mr. G. Lawson, and Miss M. Beevor. Foreign plants from Mr. G. 

 Francis. 



Jussieu's ' Elements of Botany,' translated by Mr. J. H. Wilson, 

 F.L.S., presented by the translator. ' Journal of the Royal Agricultu- 

 ral Society of England,' presented by the Society. ' Journal of the 

 Pharmaceutical Society,' presented by the Society. Nos. 1 and 2 of 

 the ' Botanical Gazette,' edited by Mr. A. Henfrey, F.L.S., presented 

 by the Editor. ' Materials for a Fauna and Flora of Swansea and the 

 Neighbourhood,' by L. W. Dilwyn, Esq., F.R.S., presented by James 

 Motley, Esq. 'Report of the Dublin University Museum' for 1848, 

 presented by the University. ' The Agricultural Magazine,' presented 

 by the Editor. 



The Rev. Francis Dyson, of Tentworth, Marlborough, Mr. T. Clark, 

 Junr., of Halesleigh, Bridgewater, Mr. W. B. Booth, A.L.S., of Car- 

 clew, Cornwall, Mr. W. J. Burke, of Kilbride, Wicklow, Mr. T. Kirk, 

 of Coventry, Mr. J. T. Duthoit, and Mr. Hedger, of London, were 

 elected members. 



Several specimens from Mr. Hewett Watson, Mr. F. Barham, Mr. 

 W. H. Purchas, and Mr. S. P. Woodward, in illustration of recently 

 distinguished species, curious varieties, &c, were exhibited. Among 

 them were examples of Hieracium alpinum with the scapes branched 

 and leafy, showing a transition to the section of stem-producing spe- 

 cies. Also a curious example of Carex atrata, in which the character 

 and position of the flower-spikes were widely different from their or- 

 dinary condition, giving to the specimen a first-sight appearance si- 

 milar to that of a very luxuriant C. rigida, the terminal spike being 

 almost entirely male, and cylindrical ; four inferior spikes of female 

 flowers, with a few males interspersed, cylindrical or oblong, erect, 

 and placed rather distantly one below another, the lowest about three 

 inches beneath the terminal male spike. The specimen had grown 

 in Mr. Watson's garden, on a root of Carex atrata brought from the 

 Grampians a few years ago. — G. E. D. 



