124 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
among the shrubs. It appears that young plants produce leaves 
of a lower stage of development than adult, and as the individual 
increases in age the leaves successively. produced approach more 
nearly the mature form, until at a certain stage of growth only 
typical leaves are nd. Once this stage is reached, all the 
Areolis, Asplenium Steerei, Nephrodium Luerssent, N. Bakert, N. subpe- 
datum, Polypodium Skenkii, P. craterisorum, P. hammotiosorum, P. 
teeret, XC. 
February 15.—Prof. Allman, F.R.S., President, in the chair.— 
essrs. William Burns, E. T. Gardner, . S. Meiklejohn, Prof. 
W. W. Harrington, of Michigan, U.S., the Rev. John Stobbs, and 
Sir Charles W. Strickland, Bart., were elected Fellows.—Mr. 
ur Lister exhibited under the microscope an example of 
the plasmodium of one of the £0 8 he following 
papers were :—*On the rootstock of Marattia fraxinea, 
Sm.,” by John Buchanan, of the Geological Survey, Ne ea- 
sum ve increased. At Wellington, when transplanted, it 
rows luxuriantly, especially when placed in rich da il. e 
author described it e of growth. Its rate of growth is unusually 
low, hence may re of its scarcity, its consumption as an 
article of food keeping pace wit production.—‘‘On the Alge 
collect . I. B. Balfour at the Island of Rodri ” by Pro- 
fessor Dickie. time devoted to the collection of marine 
forms during the stay of the members of the Venus-' - 
dition, 1874, ez, may partly account for paucity of 
numbers of Of 52 specie: ere 
Alge obtai : s 
marine. None call for special attention, most being of world-wide 
- distribution. ay ee, : 
