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The President read the following communications :— 
French Locality for Ulex australis. 
“T do not know if any of your correspondents have indicated the 
precise localities of Ulex australis (U. provincialis, Zozs.), in the South- 
east of France. Mr. Babington, in the ‘ Annals,’ some years since, 
mentioned that he received it from Marseilles, and indicated what he 
considered the diagnostic marks between U. australis and U. Kuro- 
peus. I spent three or four days lately in Marseilles, and brought 
away a few specimens of U. australis. It is first found between Avig- 
non and Marseilles, about twenty-five miles from the latter place, 
growing abundantly in open, exposed places near the sea, and has 
there very much the facies of U. Europeus; it is found in suitable 
localities, at intervals, all the remaining distance to Marseilles. 
Beyond Marseilles, on the road to Nice, it first occurs very sparingly 
within five miles of the town, increasing in abundance as far as Brig- 
nolles, and about twelve or fifteen miles beyond Brignolles appeared 
to cease altogether. Here it grows on rocks &c. by the roadside, and 
its facies is much more characteristic than between Avignon and Mar- 
seilles. It is slenderer and taller than E. Kuropeus; the flowers 
smaller and more numerous. On a closer examination, the stamina 
and pistil are much more delicate and slender, the bracts, or scales 
at the base of the calyx, much smaller and less highly coloured, than 
in Kuropawus. As to the calycine teeth, they are quite as well marked 
in my specimens of U. Europzus as in U. australis, and as in the 
figure of the latter plant given by Loiseleur; although he separately 
and specially represents the calyx, with its teeth, as in some degree 
characteristic of his U. provincialis. In U. Europzus, the flowers 
spring quite from the axils of the branchlets; in U. australis, they 
are not axillary, but grow from the branchlet, about a line or more 
from its junction with the main stem. The Ulex was in full flower in 
January, defying the piercing mistral ; though it does not grow on the 
exposed rock to tlie left of the bay overloking the quarantine island, 
Chateau d’If, &c.”—Charles Prentice ; Cheltenham, March 4, 1854. 
Plants at Nice. 
“ At Nice, though rather more to the North, the weather was warmer, 
and vegetation further advanced than about Marseilles. I noticed in 
full flower, at the beginning of February, Anemone hortensis, Ranun- 
culus Ficaria (very large), Thlaspi perfoliatum, Globularia vulgaris, 
