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At the east end of the isthmus of Feniglia were found Helichrysum 
Stechas, Euphorbia Pinea, and Statice psiloclada, with Daucus gummifer. 
The maritime Dawei of Italy are very pe erplexing, each locality having 
apparently its own form ; the author is inclined to place all under D. 
maritimus. On the shore were noticed thousands of curious felt-like 
balls, in size from a pea to a child’s head, which are formed by the 
fibres fro —_ base of ne stem of Posido mia Caulint, rolled by the 
win oa ves. Many rare plants were collected here, including 
Orlaya minvéia Vicia dasycarpa and V. pseudocracca, and Juniperus 
macrocarpa, ten to twelve feet high. . ‘On the side of M. Argentaro 
near Porto San Stefano, Centawrea melitensis was collected, hitherto 
only known as Tuscan from occurring in the islands. The e Samphire 
is eaten here as in England, under the name of | “* Bacieci.”—Rev 
Johns showed drawings of the peculiar of De Iphinium nudi- 
eaule in which the petioles of the cotyledons remain fused, forming a 
tube, and the plumule makes its way through a chink in the side.*— 
n the Algee of Mauritius,” by Dr. Dickie. The total number of 
species recorded is 155, of which 17 are European, 23 South African, 12 
Australian, 15 East Indian, 14 found in the Red Sea, whilst 12 are 
peculiar to the island.”’—‘‘ On the Alge of St. Thomas and Bermuda,” 
by H N. Moseley. These were aan during the a Te by the 
Challenger.—‘‘ Supplementary Notes on the Buds on the Leaf of 
Malaxis,” by Dr. Dickie.—‘ On a ‘ uminous Fungus on the Leaves of 
Spermacoce at St. Kitts, W Lay ” by C. H. Broome. Considered 
by Mr. Berkeley to be a Didymi 
ecember 4th.— Le pag ‘resident in the chair.—Dr. Hooker 
exhibited a photograph, sent by Dr. Se heffer, of the flower of mg. 203 
in a future number a drawing and description of this long over- 
wiih of the ielean of which two parts have nats been laid 
before the Society. Defining Tulipez as caulescent eapsular Liliaceze 
with free ican todciatoshe and bulbous root-stocks, the or 
at in the 
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strictly lateral, the attachment of the anther being basal in Tulipa, 
Erythronium, Lloydia , and Calochortus, but the filament being fixed 
to the face of the side nearest the centre of the flower in Fritillaria 
an a ee a structure identical with that of the genus Colchicum 
itself. In reviewing the range of characters presented by the tribe, 
he dwelt oh pa 3 on the structure of the bulbs. All the Tulipez 
are able in a state of nature to hold their ir ground in the world by 
bulb-reproduction alone; but in the manner in which the reproduction 
* See Journ. Bot. 1872, p. 45, for other cases of a similar peculiarity. 
