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decaying, and its place being supplied, as in Monocotyledons, by 

 adventitious roots. There is no true bark, no pith, and no annular 

 zones of vessels, the vascular bundles being scattered as in Endogens. 

 Mr. Henfrey regards the stem of Victoria as endogenous, as Trecul had 

 already done in regard to other Nymphaeaceae, especially Nuphar lutea. 

 The chief differences, Mr. Henfrey says, from Endogens are the absence 

 of fibrous layers between the cortical and central tissues, and the com- 

 position of the vascular bundles being exclusively of spiral vessels, 

 with unreliable fibres. 



Edward Ravenscroft, Esq., Highland Society's Museum, was elected 

 a Fellow. 



Mr. Frederick Yorke Brocas, County Hospital, Winchester, was 

 elected an Associate. 



The Phytologist Club. 



One Hundred and Forty-second Sitting. — Saturday, February 26, 

 1853. — Mr. Newman, President, in the chair. 



Nativity of the Box-tree. 



The President read the following note, from Mr. C. C. Babington, 

 dated St. John's College, Cambridge, January 28, 1853 : — 



" Mr. Watson, in his Cybele (ii. 366), appears very much inclined 

 to consider the box-tree as not originally a native of England. The 

 following extract from the beginning of Asser's ' Life of King Alfred,' 

 appears to show that it was plentiful in Berkshire 1000 years since. 

 His words are : — ' Berrocscire ; quae paga taliter vocatur a " berroc " 

 sylva, ubi buxus abundantissime nascitur.' " 



Chrysocoma Linosyris at Weston-super-Mare. 



The President read the following note, from Mr. T. B. Flower, 

 dated Seend, near Melksham, February, 1853 : — 



" Visiting Weston and its neighbourhood for a few days, during 

 September last, I was fortunate enough to find a single plant of 

 Chrysocoma Linosyris, on the hill near Knightstone. It required a 

 good deal of searching for, being very diminutive, and not nearly so 

 luxuriant as I have seen it growing at Berry Head. Having speci- 

 mens, from the neighbourhood of Whorle Hill, in my herbarium, ga- 

 thered by the late Mr. William Christie, I left the plant growing, in 

 the hope of its gradually spreading. In the Cybele it is recorded 

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