510 Botanical Society of London. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Sept. 6, 1844.— J. Reynolds, Esq., Treasurer, in the Chair. 



Mr. T. Ingall presented a specimen of Teiicr'mm Botrys found in 

 August last in a stony field at the back of Box Hill, between Brock- 

 ham and the upper part of Headley Lane. 



Read " Dr. Taylor's descriptions of some new Musci and Lichenes 

 from the Australian colonies, namely, Dicramim Menzlesii, Bryum 

 leptothecium, Bartramia tenuis, Hypnum. excavatum, Usnea scabrida 

 and Parmelia tubularis:" all of Taylor's MSS. 



Oct. 4. — J. Reynolds, Esq., Treasurer, in the Chair. 



Read " A General Description of the Botany, Climate and Physi- 

 cal Geography of the neighbourhood of Embleton in Northumber- 

 land ; drawn up by Robert Embleton, Esq. in illustration of a Local 

 Herbarium of the district, collected for the Society by the same gen- 

 tleman." 



Nov. I. — J. Reynolds, Esq., Treasurer, in the Chair. 

 Read " Notice of the discovery of Galium Vaillantii near Saffron 

 Walden, Essex, by G. S. Gibson, Esq." Specimens were presented. 



Nov. 29. — Eighth Anniversary Meeting. 

 J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 

 From the report of the Council it appeared that seventeen mem- 

 bers had been elected since the last Anniversary, and that the 

 Society now consisted of 173 members ; at which a ballot took place 

 for the Council for the ensuing year, when the Chairman was re- 

 elected President, and he nominated E. Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., 

 and Dr. Bossey, Vice-Presidents. Mr. J. Reynolds, Mr. G. E. 

 Dennes, and Mr. T. Sansom, were respectively re-elected Treasurer, 

 Secretary and Librarian. 



Dec. 6. — J. Reynolds, Esq., Treasurer, in the Chair. 



Dr. Dewar presented specimens of Carduus setosus, discovered by 

 himself in July last, three miles from Dunfermline, Fifeshire. This 

 being a plant of Eastern Europe, and apparently hitherto unknown 

 on the western coasts, there seems much probability that the seed 

 has been accidentally imported from Russia. Its nearest ally in 

 Britain is C. arvensis. 



Mr. Thomas Bentall presented specimens of (Enanthe fluviatilis 

 (of Coleman), collected by himself in the river, near Halstead, Essex, 

 in July. 



The Rev. W. R. Crotch presented specimens of Helianthemum 

 Breweri (Planchon), collected in the long-known locality of Holy- 

 head Mountain, Anglesea. This species has hitherto been confused 

 with H. guttatum by all British botanists, but is figured as an un- 

 described species in the ' London Journal of Botany ' for November 

 1844, and explanations are given in the succeeding number of the 

 same periodical. The true H. guttatum, from the South of France, 



