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Specimens were exhibited. —* Rams arphologien! notes on certain 
species of Thunbergia,” by Marcus M. a og. The author observes 
that the plurality of flowers and pete n each axil and the origin i 
e calyx are of special interest in the genus Thun ppt de He 
two elevations a little above the hese become pedicels and 
young bractlets, and inside by ee Ncubet oh arise. Ti 
flowers then are axillary buds formed in succession from the axis out- 
Millar Ord, Mr, T. poutledge, and Mr. S. D. Titmas were elected 
Fellows. Mr. R. Irwin Lynch exhibited a pot of growing Wheat 
sprung from grain left in Polaris Bay, Smith’s Sound, 81° 38’ N. Lat., 
by the ill-fated American Expedition. Capt. Sir G. Nares, on his 
return from the recent Arctic Expedition, in a letter to Dr. Hooker 
Sentions that the grain in question lay exposed to all the rigorous 
a t i 
likewise worthy of remark that senctan "the Wheat a waele £ f 
Maize was observed, and this representative of a tropical vegetation 
severest Arctic frost, even long continued, does not wholly deprive the 
embryo of the above Cereals of its aia 
companied as botanist the Transit of Venus Expedition to that 
island in 1874. The flora is essentially insular, as mig’ 
affini 
aoc, to the Polynesian and American eat ae an Asiatic 
ra predominates. Many common and wide-spread tg bo: been 
introduced, and the ancient flora of the island may be, various _ 
or doubtful causes, in great part destroyed ; in this respect therefore, 
recalling to mind the insular flora of St. Helena, well k o have 
been entirely changed in its superficial facies by fire, ineetensen of 
mestic animals, and human agency. A somewhat remarkable and 
well-marked feature in the present flora of Rodriguez is the hetero- 
morphism exhibited in the leaves of many of the plants, es ey, 
