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it out of the rice-fields in Lombardy, which are greatly infested 

 with this grass. There is always roughness enough in the Cutgrass 

 to serve the purpose of discriminating it from the common reed anci 

 all other British Gramineae, with common attention, but a search in 

 the two or three uppermost sheaths for the concealed panicle should 

 next be resorted to. The leaves of the Cutgrass are pale green, like 

 those of the nascent reed shoots, but have mostly a shade of brown 

 or olive in them not possessed by the latter; at other times the colour 

 in both is too nearly alike to be distinguishable at any distance. At 

 the close of summer, when the plant is fully matured, the leaves are 

 easily recognized amongst the surrounding herbage by their obviously 

 paler green, with a strong cast of yellow. 



Wm. A. Bromfield. 

 Eastmount, Ryde, Isle of Wight, 

 October 12, 1849. 



Botanical Society of London. 



Friday, October 5, 1849. — J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



The following donations were announced : — 



' Cybele Britannica,' vol. ii., by Hewett Cottrell Watson, Esq. ; 

 presented by the author. ' The Natural History of Staffordshire,' by 

 R. Garner, Esq. ; presented by the author. ' Transactions of the 

 Horticultural Society of Berlin ;' presented by that society. ' Jour- 

 nal of the Statistical Society of London ;' presented by that society. 

 ' Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions ;' presented by the Phar- 

 maceutical Society. 



British plants from the Rev. C. Parish, Mr. J. B. French, Mr. S. 

 Hailstone, Mr. E. Brown, and Mr. D. Oliver. 



Mr. H. Bidwell presented specimens of Lastrea cristata (Presl.), 

 collected by him at Bexley decoy, near Ipswich, in August last. 



The continuation of Mr. W. H. Coleman's paper ' On the Plants 

 indigenous to the Neighbourhood of Horsham, Sussex,' was read. — 

 G. E. D. 



