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[The following list of papers deferred may be interesting to some of our readers. EdJ] 



1. Remarks on the Assam Tea-plant, with specimens. By Professoi- Christison. 



2. Some remarks on the state of Vegetation in Jersey, in March, 1842. Bi/ Pro- 

 fessor Graham. 



3. Report on Vegetables parasitic on living animals. By Mr. John Goodsir, Con- 

 servator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. 



4. On the characters of the British Violets. By Mr. C. C. Bahington. 



5. On the nomenclature of British Plants, and the authority upon which several 

 species have been introduced into the Society's Catalogue. By Mr. C. C. Babington. 



6. Remarks on the British species of Cerastium. By Mr. Edmonston. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



July 1st, 1842. — J. E. Gray, Esq. F.R.S. &c., President, in the chair. The fol- 

 lowing donations were announced : — British plants from Lady Sophia Windham and 

 Mr. F. Robins, and British mosses from Mr. I. T. HoUings and Mr. H. Ibbotson. — 

 Donations to the library were announced from the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. 

 Petersburgh, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Sciences 

 Philadelphia, and the Rev. A. Bloxam. Various specimens of plants, sections of wood 

 &c. purchased at the sale of the Botanical Museum of the late A. B. Lambert, Esq., 

 were presented by some of the members. 



Mr. Arthur Henfrey (Curator) exhibited a monstrous specimen of Scrophularia 

 aquatica (which is now in the Society's Museum), found by him on the 30th of June 

 last, on an island in the Thames above Teddington. The plant was about three feet 

 high, having a flat ribband-like stem rather more than half an inch broad, and scarce- 

 ly an eighth thick. The flower-stalks grew chiefly out of the flat surfaces, nearly per- 

 pendicular to them, a very few only being at the edges, and not in any regular order. 

 These flowering stalks extended over about eighteen inches of the stem, being about 

 forty in number, exclusive of a very dense cluster at the summit of the plant. The 

 flowers all appeared perfect, and the peculiarity of growth seemed to have resulted 

 from a natural grafting of two plants. Mr. George Dickie presented specimens of 

 Gelidium rostratum (Harvey), collected by him at Aberdeen. Specimens of Lastrcea 

 crintata (Presl), collected at Holt, Norfolk, were presented by the Botanical Society of 

 Holt ; and Mr. R. Phillips presented some seeds from the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. 

 Thomas Sansom exhibited a monstrous specimen of Cynoglossum Omphalodes (Linn.) 

 in which three peduncles were united longitudinally from the base to the extremity, 

 and terminated by tivo calyces, the first being 6-partite, bearing a corolla of six seg- 

 ments, ^w stamens, one pistil and four seeds. The second was 9-partite, formed by 

 the union of two calyces, respectively 4 and 5-partite, bearing two distinct petals pla- 

 ced side by side, each 5-lobed, each with five stamens, and each containing a pistil 

 and a set of four seeds. Mr. S. also exhibited a specimen of Galeohdolon luteum (Sm.) 

 in which the terminal petal was salver-shaped and 5-lobed ; stamens four. 



A paper was read by Mr. T. Sansom, being Notes of the first Excursion of the 

 Members of the Society into Kent in June last; containing the habitats of the rarer 

 species of flowering plants, and also notes on the most interesting specimens collected. 

 — G. E. D. 



