PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 125 
March 1.—Prof. Allman, F.R.S., President, in the chair.— 
Robert Gillies, Herbert Goss, “Albert Gunther, F. R. S., and Matthew 
Moggridge were . cted Fellows, and M. C. Cooke was elected an 
Associate of the society.—Mr. W. 'P. Hiern exhibited the embryo of 
Diospyros Babeatptirs eris, Pers., upon the fruit and seed of which species 
Geertner founded his genus s Embryopteris (see p. 100).—Dr. Maxwell 
examples exhibited were collected by Mr. Webster, gardener to the 
Duke of Richmondand Gordon. Some of these productions were illustra- 
tions of dimorphism or bud-variation, and attributable perhaps to the 
reappearance of ancestral characteristics usually latent, or to the dis- 
junction of parental forms usually amalgamated. Others owed their 
origin to some injury to the terminal bud, and the subsequent hyper-: 
trophy of the branches and the excessive development of adventitious 
uds. The injury was frequently the ene of insect puncture, as in 
the case of the Birch, the ‘‘ burrs” on which had been lately dis- 
covered by Miss E. Omerod to be prodaced. - a species of Phytoptus ; 
at other times it was the result of parasitic Fungi, or of injury conse- 
Ball, F.R.S. The author gave the more readable portion of his paper, 
and a hasty summary of the technical and botanical results. By a sketch 
ITi 
anoni, 1675 ; hae 1673; Broussonet, 1790-9; (the. 
collections of the latter were distributed to several European botanists, 
and here and there incidentally noticed by them) ; and Cavanilles, of 
Madrid, who temporarily secured to Spain a fair share of honour by. 
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ie 
ished, a Flora 
a his account of the empire of Marocco (1809) 
has noticed the curious Cactoid Euphorbias. P. Barker Webb, in a 
short, vat (1827) to Tangier and Tetuan, discovered a new genus of 
Tuc: e 
& number of new and wnt toe ome; ; but Mr. G. Maw was more 
in 1869. Messrs. Hooker, Maw, and Ball’ s routes in 1871 
al data 
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= 7 Were feat 5 pointed out, and some technica am concerning. 
