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I strongly recommend the Tenby daffodil to the notice of all lovers of 

 floriculture, as a highly ornamental species, of free and hardy growth, 

 and well worthy of cultivation, were it for its beauty alone, to say 

 nothing of its rarity. 



W. T. Bree. 



Allesley Rectory, June 14, 1850. 



Botanical Society of London. 



Friday, June 14. Arthur Henfrey, Esq., V.P., in the chair. 



The following donations were announced : — ' The Tourist's Flora,' 

 by Joseph Woods, Esq., F.L.S., &c. ; presented by the author. 

 ' Fourteenth Aunual Report of the Warwickshire Natural History So- 

 ciety ' ; presented by that Society. ' Proceedings of the American 

 Philosophical Society ' ; presented by that Society. ' A Collection of 

 Leicestershire Rubi,' to illustrate Miss Kirby's ' Flora of Leicester- 

 shire ' ; presented by the Rev. Andrew Bloxam. British Plants from 

 Mr. J. Carroll, Mr. R. G. Holland, and Mr. R. Withers. 



The Chairman read a paper " On Sagina apetala (L.) t and S. ciliata, 

 {Fries), with some remarks on the mode of discriminating species." 

 After alluding to a paper by M. Beneken, published in the ' Botanical 

 Gazette ' for April, 1849, and another by Mr. Babington on the same 

 subject, which appeared in that journal in July, 1849, the author 

 stated that he had investigated many specimens of the plants, 

 English and French, derived from his own collections and from the 

 herbarium of Dr. Cosson, of Paris, together with an English example 

 of S. ciliata named by Mr. Babington, and authentic specimens of S. 

 patula (Jord.), from that author. The conclusion he had arrived at 

 was that the S. ciliata, with which S. patula (Jord.) appears to be 

 identical, as stated by MM. Grenier and Godron, is but a variety of S. 

 apetala (Z.). He had found the mucro on the sepals inconstant on 

 the same plant, occurring on specimens with all the other characters 

 of the form taken on the true apetala. The degree of divergence of 

 the sepals in the fruit, he was inclined to attribute to the existence 

 and size of the petals, which are persistent. The form apetala 

 (which has petals and is usually ciliated) grows on drier and more ex- 

 posed spots ; the form ciliata generally in the shade, or damper 

 situations. The author then drew attention to a plan for determining 

 critical species which are at present so perplexing to European bota- 



