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genous" in Leicestershire, without distinction or qualification. This 

 promiscuous inclusiveness seriously detracts from the authority of the 

 Flora, as a county list of native plants, for all the doubtful or suspected 

 species. 



The authoress has been aided by several distinguished botanists, as 

 the Rev. Andrew Bloxam, the Rev. W. H. Coleman, the Rev. Church- 

 hill Babington, the Rev. T. Butler, &c. Mr. Bloxam gives a descrip- 

 tive list of the Rubi found in the county. 



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Botanical Society of London. 



Friday, April 5. George Cooper, Esq., in the chair. 



The following donations were announced : — Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the 

 Gardener's Magazine of Botany,' conducted by Messrs. Moore and 

 Ajres ; presented by the editors. ' Journal of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society of England ;' presented by that Society. ' Journal of the 

 Statistical Society of London ;' presented by that Society. ' Proceed- 

 ings of the American Philosophical Society ;' presented by that So- 

 ciety. ' Twenty -ninth Report of the Council of the Leeds Philoso- 

 phical and Literary Society ;' presented by that Society. ' A Collection 

 of Dried Specimens of the Flowering Plants and Ferns growing na- 

 tive within a district of the County of Norfolk, embracing an extent 

 of about Forty Square Miles, having for its centre the Town of Faken- 

 ham;' presented by W. L. Notcutt, Esq. 



Robert Hudson, Esq., F.R.S., &c, of Clapham Common ; Dr. Cas- 

 pary, of Cringleford, near Norwich ; W. H. Purchas, Esq., of Ross, 

 Herefordshire ; and Mrs. Lloyd Watkins, of Pennoyre, Brecknock, 

 were elected members. 



The conclusion of Mr. Coleman's paper ' On the Plants indigenous 

 to the Neighbourhood of Horsham, Sussex,' was read. — G. E. D. 



