February 26, 1866. 
I. Topuuntrr, M.A., F.R.S., Vicz-PRESIDENT, in 
the Chair. 
The following new Fellows were elected : 
B. W. Beatson, M.A., Pembroke. 
J. R. Lumpy, M.A., Magdalene. 
F. J. Brarirawaite, M.A., Clare. 
On the Papyrus of the Lake of Gennesaret. By 
Cuartes C. Basincton, M.A., F.R.S., Professor 
of Botany. 
THE object of this communication was to point out the ex- 
istence of two species of Papyrus, and to explain that the 
plant in cultivation as the “ Egyptian Papyrus” is not the true 
Cyperus Papyrus (Linn.), but was probably introduced into our 
gardens from Sicily, where it had been planted (in the opinion 
of Prof. Parlatori of Florence) shortly before the 10th century 
of our era. 
It was also shewn that the Papyrus of the plain of Genne- 
saret (from whence a specimen gathered by Mr Tristram was 
exhibited), and of the vast and deep marshes of Hfleh, by the 
Lake Merom, in the north of Palestine, is not the plant found 
at Syracuse and on the coast of Palestine, but is identical 
with that which grows in an extensive swamp or shallow lake 
connected with the White Nile at about the seventh degree of 
