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Botanical Society of London. 



Friday, October 3, 1851. John Reynolds, Esq., Treasurer, in the 

 chair. 



Mr. G. E. Dennes, the Secretary, stated that the Council had ap- 

 pointed Mr. J. T. Syrae Curator, and that the rooms would be open 

 every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from ten to five. 



The Curator reported that a large collection of duplicates of Euro- 

 pean plants, mostly those not found in Britain, had been labelled for 

 the Society by Mr. Hewett C. Watson. Lists of the species (amount- 

 ing to nearly a thousand, and including many of the rarer arctic and 

 South-European plants) will be sent to the members who desire 

 foreign specimens, in order that they may, in rotation, select their 

 own desiderata, instead of merely receiving parcels looked out for 

 them by the Curator alone, and thus unavoidably selected without 

 reference to the contents of their own herbaria. 



A specimen of Grammica suaveolens, Schultz, discovered by Mr. 

 E. G. Varenne, growing on lucerne, near Witham, in Essex, in Sep- 

 tember last, was exhibited. On inquiry, it was ascertained by Mr. 

 Varenne that the field had been sown with imported seeds, and t hat 

 the dodder had proved very injurious to the crop. The Grammica 

 suaveolens is identical with the Cuscuta Hassiaca, Vfeiffer, of Koch's 

 * Synopsis Florae Germanicae.' It may be readily distinguished from 

 the other dodders found in England, by its pedicellated flowers, 

 bright, orange-yellow stems, and sweet scent. 



The conclusion of Mr, Daniel Stock's paper ' On the Botany of 

 Bungay, Suffolk,' was read. — G. E. D. 



Notice of ' The Botanical Gazette j' No. 33 and 34, September and 



October, 1851. 



Tlie contents of the September number are as under: — 



' Botanical Notes of an Excursion through Portugal and Spain ; by 

 John Ball, M.R.I.A.' 



' Some Remarks on the Plant Morphologically considered ; by the 

 Rev. Dr. M'Cosh.' 



' Literature :' — Contents of * Annals of Natural History,' Hooker's 

 'Journal of Botany,' and ' Phytologist.' 



