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Vice-Presidents. Mr. J. Reynolds, Mr. G. E. Dennes, and Mr. T\ 

 Moore were respectively re-elected Treasurer, Secretary, and Libra- 

 rian. Mr. J. Coppin, M.A., Mr. G. Luxford, and Mr. J. L. Lawrence 

 were elected new members of the Council, in the room of Mr. A. H. 

 Hassell, Dr. Cooke, and Dr. Ayres. — G. E. D. 



N.B. — In consequence of the death of Mr. E. Doubleday, one of 

 the Vice-Presidents, no meeting was held in December. 



Note on Serratula tinctoria, Alsine stricta, and a Species of Woodsia. 

 By Daniel Oliver, Jun., Esq. 



Serratula tinctoria. Botanizing in Teesdale a while ago, I fell in 

 with an example of what appears to be the broad-leaved saw-wort, or 

 Serratula^ tinctoria, var. integrifolia. I have not observed any mention 

 of this variety in Hooker or Babington's Manual : it occurs in Smith's 

 ' English^Flora' and 'English Botany.' The figure in Petiver's works 

 is, so far as the leaves are concerned, like the plant in question, but the 

 form of inflorescence is different. It may be common, but never be- 

 fore turned up, to my knowledge, to botanical friends here or myself. 



Alsine stricta. Examples of this rare plant which I possess, from 

 Teesdale, appear to have glabrous peduncles ; if such be a character, 

 it might be introduced with advantage into the specific description, — 

 more especially as the presence or absence of nerves in the leaves is 

 not so easily determined in the dried plant. Very frequently little 

 reliance is to be placed on pubescence or hairiness; but, so far as I 

 have recently examined, the peduncles of Alsine vei'na are always 

 more or less hairy or pubescent. 



Woodsia. I collected, a few months ago, some miles northerly 

 from Moffat, Scotland, the variety ? gracilis, I think, of W. Ilvensis, 

 and agreeing pretty well with the figure in ' English Botany,' No. 

 2323. If I mistake not, W. Ilvensis was mentioned as occurring in 

 that neighbourhood some time ago in the ' Phytologist.' 



D. Oliver, Jun. 

 January, 1850. 



