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curious monstrosity at the last meeting of the Society, no mention was 

 made of the state of the male organs or the floral envelopes. Mr. Ba- 

 bington has supplied this desideratum in the present notice. The 

 stamens were of the usual form, and in the usual position; and he now 

 supposes that the two cups alluded to in the former notice, as occu- 

 pying the place of the capsule, are formed by two whorls of carpellary 

 leaves, and that the development of two in place of one, has deprived 

 each of the power of becoming a perfect capsule, or of producing a 

 style in the usual manner. 



A donation to the library was presented from F. S. Cordier, M.D., 

 Paris, being his ' Histoire et Description des Champignons.' David 

 Walker, Esq., M.A., North Hill, Colchester, was elected a non-resi- 

 dent Fellow of the Society. — Edinburgh Evening Post and Scottish 

 Standard. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Mag 3, 1844.— J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S., &c., President, in the chair. 

 Various donations to the library and herbarium were announced. 



A specimen of Barkhausia setosa was presented by G. S. Gibson, 

 Esq., which was stated to have been found by Dr. J. B. Wood, in 

 corn-fields, at Withington, near Manchester. 



A specimen of Primula vulgaris, bearing three flowers upon a long, 

 slender scape, was exhibited from Mr. D. Stock, of Bungay, as an 

 example of the plant usually (though incorrectly) called Primula ela- 

 tior by the botanists of that part of England. Having been enclosed 

 in a post letter before drying, it was too much shrivelled to admit of 

 its being assigned quite certainly to the variety caulescens of the Lon- 

 don Catalogue. The variety intermedia of the same Catalogue usu- 

 ally bears ten or twenty flowers on a scape, and approximates to the 

 cowslip in its deep colour and short pubescence. 



A monstrosity of Primula vulgaris was also presented by Mr. D. 

 Stock. In this specimen, a short peduncle terminated in a funnel- 

 shaped calyx, formed by the adhesion of fifteen sepals, and enclosing 

 two distinct corollas; the limb of one corolla being divided into eight 

 lobes, that of the other into seven. 



Read, " A Synoptical View of the British Fruticose Rubi, arranged 

 in groups, with explanatory remarks, (Part 2)," by Edwin Lees, Esq., 

 F.L.S.— G. E. D. 



MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



May 15, 1844.— Thos. Bell, Esq., F.R.S., &c. President, in the chair. 

 Mr. Bowerbank called the attention of the Society to a minute spe- 

 cies of Conferva growing between the lenses of an achromatic object- 



