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remainder of the Hymenomycetes, with the other tribes of Fungi.” By 
ev. M. J. Berkeley and C. E. Broome, Esq. 
April 17th—‘ Notes on the Development of the Perigynium in 
Carex pulicaris.” By W. R. MeNab.—‘‘On the Morphology of the 
Perigynium and Seta in Carex.” By W. T. Thiselton Dyer.—“ On 
Burmese Orchidez from the Rev. C. P. Parish.” By Prof. Reich- 
ham, Esq. ; 
1s¢t.—Mr. D. Hanbury exhibited a head of fruit of a species 
of Banksia produced in his garden at Clapham.—Mr. J. E. Howar 
a the genus Cinchona. He reviewed the recent pub- 
lications of Wed and Triana on the subject, and gave a revise 
n 
upon it. n the other hand, in Lecythidacee the very numerous 
stamens, consisting of very short filaments and generally very small 
anthers, are eac i 
parts o 
rne upon a distinct linear appendage forming 
uliar process—the androphorum—which is the 
still agglutinated to the androphorum, all fall off together, leaving 
he disk bar he androphorum varies in shape in the several 
genera. In Gustavia it is large, equally expanded all round, with long 
appendages, as above described ; that of Grias approaches it in form, 
