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some surprise that any botanist with an eye for a fern, who will but 

 take the trouble to look at the plant, should still pronounce it only a 

 variety of — what shall I say — multiflora, or spinosa, or &c., &c. ? 

 Along with Mr, Hore, I regard it as perhaps " the most beautiful and 

 lovely, as well as the most distinct, of our indigenous ferns." I may 

 add, that yld Mr. James Dickson, no mean authority in a cryptogamic 

 controversy, was well acquainted with L. recurva, having procured it 

 in Sussex, and cultivated it in his garden of choice things at Croy- 

 don ; and that he ever regarded it as an undescribed and distinct Bri- 

 tish species. 



W. T. Bree. 

 Allesley Rectory, April 11, 1851. 



Botayiical Society of London. 



Friday, April 4, 1851. Arthur Henfrey, Esq., V.P., F.L.S., in 

 the chair. 



Various donations were announced. 



The Rev. T. G. Carter, of Wenden, Saffron Walden ; Mr. J. T. 

 Syme, of Edinburgh ; Mr. W. Gourlie, jun., of Glasgow; and Mr. P. 

 Keir, of London, were elected members, 



Mr. G. E. Dennes, the Secretary, exhibited specimens of Ranun- 

 culus tricophyllus, Chaix, collected by Mr. J. T. Syme at Dunsorpic 

 Loch, Edinburgh, in June last. Also specimens of Myosotis palus- 

 tris, var. strigulosa, Reich., collected by the same gentleman at Dud- 

 dington Loch, Edinburgh, in August, 1850, 



Other interesting plants, which had been received from members 

 and other botanists for the ensuing distribution of duplicates, were 

 also exhibited, but their names have been entered in the third edi- 

 tion of the ' London Catalogue of British Plants,' published by the 

 Society,— (?, E. D. 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 



March 13, 1851. Professor Balfour, President, in the chair. 



The following donations were announced : — ' Botanical Gazette,' 

 from the Editor ; British plants from Dr. Balfour, Mr. Sibbald, and 

 Mr. Murchison, and Swiss plants from Mr. Stark. 



