Joy 11, 1874.] LTE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. ` 53 
white G s, were placed i = do e 
eile of the so and the whole nclose 
in a border of glass troughs AE Selaginella 
culata. 
The Empress was present, and accepted a bouquet 
provided by Mr. Harry Veitch. The Prince e Imperial 
Linnean Society : Anniversary Meeting, May 25. 
—G. Busk, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. ou 
A Chairman a port of the 
‘scrutineers sohuted pa the purpose, that the follow- 
Saag bb besa officers of the Society for 
i ident, G. J. Allm: 
s rrey, Esq., 
_ Esq ; that Robert Braithwaite M.D., J. D. Hooker, 
PCB, M.D., J. G. Jeffreys, LL.D., Daniel babel 
., and W. W. e oved 
s 
ffom the Council, and the See five cuban 
‘elected in their place, viz.:—Major-General Strachey, 
FW T.°T. Dyer, Esq., J. E. Harting, E3q., P. 
E Hiem, Esq., J. J. Weir, E sq. 
It was moved by Mr. S seconded by Mr. 
, and carried unanimously :— Mikan the 
secretaries be requested to utse to Bentham 
_ the cordial thanks of the Society for is “invaluable 
i That the 
n fo. Mr. Stainton = his sti ea ‘from the 
eofS tary: expression of the ie Society s 
on losing, his valuable services in that 
Iman vi M. D. $ President, pii se 
eR of Firefly (L Larinia ah gi kas 
$ mga in the neighbourhood of Turin, calling 
to the remarkable s acme us emission of 
ync 
merous individuals, and pointing 
ce is a phenomenon not of 
ribed micro- 
à flatte ri ‘Lyallia has the 
‘Solitary in the axils of the overlapping leaves. 
Steer vse tang 
ins 
Pres. 
1874. 
Professo: 
anthos.” 
of petals an 
Expedition,” 
inal exte Leni -ew e to 
markable plani 
Kioa station for it. 
erbarium 
They ha 
r. Mose 
now to call attention to the no less remarkable latitu- 
the south, of that, very re- 
ey had had the 
pes prr = ki t this on Marion Island more to the 
and more to th 
specimens in the Kew 
m the Crozets. He thought ap these 
Hein gar ar 
are no winged insects) being a wind-ferti ilis 
an 
rtant additions to 
sland. 
that the Tristan aa plant had been introduced 
Several 
of plants that are ordinarily fertilised al 
from Kerguelen’ 
with a Note on Lyallia ueinabontte Hook. f.” 
r Olive 
s Land, 
The following papers were then read :— 
ibutions to the Bo eg of the ‘ Challenger’ 
oker, 
presented by Dr. J. D. Ho 
C.B 
o. XIIa. “‘ Challenger’ Lichens” (Cape-Verdes). 
. Sturton. 
VIIa. “Letter from Mr. H. N. M 
Dr. Hooker, dated Cape Otway, Au 
On the Bot tany of Kerguelen’s Land, Marion, 
and Heard Islands. 
o. XVIII “List of “at unrecorded Species 
oseley to 
stralia, March 16, 
and Heard Islands, 
By 
i Synopsis is of the Mosses of the Island of St. Paul.” 
Appendix to Dr. Hooker’s 
the Restiaceze of Thunberg’ s Herbarium.” 
F.R.S. 
By J. oe 
All the specimens of 
evidence thus aut Cerea concern- 
author Tima there is 
“On ar Napok, Omphalocarpum, and Aster- 
Esq., V.P.L.S. 
Napoleona are reduced to two 
authors of the 
oleona, the 
nothing in its structure to show 
to Myrtacez, that it is equally gineo in sipe the 
Ba whe or and with Lecyt thideze ; and i 
est 
Genera Plantarum 
awson; but in the 
the 1 the colour and size of t owers, the 
number of n their whorls, the thickness of the 
ericarp in the fruits, the number f , the shape 
relation 
“gre 
taceze, 
place it in 
and 
man 
E sii of Eo presen 
na cannot, however, belong tó Sapo- 
o 
resemblance 
ut y points 
and as it cannot find a place i in any known natural 
or er, 
> 
to Asteranthos, the 
more rotate corolla. 
>. G. J. Allman, M.D., President, in 
D. Ta Treas. exhibi 
live in th 
to be placed in jux ion with, Sapotacem, ; 
P juxtapositi hae shows bet 
ES; 
analytical raiekin it bears no resemblance in any 
of its ‘features to Napoleona, ex except in its orbicula 
ich is differen! ; the calyx is 
= dissienilut $ in form, the flowers show no trace of 
there is no analogy in the form, str 
epost ote ee ens; the ovary is T, 
inferior, it aren style, and rel extremely 
a 
. W. Bennett exhibited drawing? of the 
antiscor- 
ri re 
in which the pollen of Pringlea differs from that of 
other nearly allied Crucifers, being much smaller and 
pea spherical, a of elliptical, with three 
This he considered a striki 
species of a family ordinarily fertilised by 
insects, an hy wrt which is verk confirmed by the 
total absence of hairs on the style of 
An extract say read of a letter rl inom Bolus, 
sq., F.L.S., to Dr. Hooker, dated Graaf Reinet, 
a 4; 1874, i in n ih ch he comments adversely on 
reasonings contained in ach’s 
Vegetation der Erde in favour of the theory of ‘‘ inde- 
Cape province, while Mr. Bolus doubts whether it 
does not differ more from this than from 
The Roggeveld a i pie arica by its 
redominence 0 ne 
pew to the jada nid of plants lin w the ieee 
pe flora, 
‘The following x pim were then read, viz. 
“On the mblances between the Bones of 
Bones of other 
wegian Megi contained in the Linnean Cor- 
respondence.” By Professor J. C, Schiödte, of Copen- 
The leather. 
STATE oth phage WEATHER AT BLACKHEATH, LONDON, 
For 
E WEEK ENDING WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1874. 
Hygrome 
— end 
TEMPERATURE OF uctions | WIND. 
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A Tables sth 
4 ay Si 
ae 8 v i 
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S /$eeloes| 8 |g]|glS 35S sigs; 
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5 -= S osu 
dg ase aalas ETa & Aaa 
EPONE EEA SE 
1 In. | In. = ; : 
erg | 29.70 |-- 0.12 EER 8} W 
3 |2986|+4 3 + 2.1/5 zj w 
4 |2991|+ jóo.4— II wy 
5 | 30.05) + 64:8 + arsos >| WwW 
6 | 30.09| + 0.28 9— J| 67 |NE: E. 
7 |2995|+ 0.14) fī — 0849.0 63{ oe 
8 | 29.93) +011, papat eass 597 
hal ELA tne Way? Tike Goda’ peneselly peba 
we ge fine pek partially cloudy till evening, then Cloudless 
wai eae ale e ee 
ass —Partially cloudy. 
mas e da) prevalent. 
baro 
29.66 i 5 
inches by mid 
evening of 
the 2d, remained 
being 0.12 inch higher than 
The hi emp 
