30 PKOCEKDINGS otf SOCIETIES. 



Shoolbred showed a series of stereoscopic photographs of groups 

 of plants on behalf of Mr. T. H. Worsley I3enison°- The following 

 botanical papers were read :_ < Note on the structure and habit of 

 Hemilem vartatrw,' by Dr. Morris. The author adds a few points 



t S + ? + T ge 0± thi8 ? estructive P^asite on coffee-leaves, 

 boc . xvn. 173). As it was hrst described from the dried leaves 



h^Z^V^ 7 ^ VerkCtlj kQ0Wn ' «"d Mr. Cooke seems to 

 orZ^tt™ de01 ^<ms wart-like papilla for the spores. The 



as Zcht 7, S I "" 11863 C ° nt , ain SpM ' es ' Which Mr. Abbay describes 

 as attached to the inner surface of the sporange. This, however 



is opposed to Mr. Morris's observations. Certain dar brown 

 bodies underneath the sporanges and in the substance of he leaf 

 Mr Motif ,°n d0nh \ M r^ by Mr. Abbay, are, according to 



W ^within Z P °, S / tf J ? ECked thrcads 0f the mjceUnm 

 lying witton the cavity of the stomata. During the south wp«»t 



cTvrr by Te^eh U AP f ^ b f k and ^es exteSaUy^ 

 enler the ston^ nT ^ the T* weather * filaments do not 



thfconidi o All "T ° UtSlde ' Jt is * this sta S e tliat 

 but thP ™ti° A ^7 (secondary spores of Thwaites) are formed, 

 but the author had failed to discover them ; although keot on 



L soITi,2 £ th^c&o^clT Wt point 1 



bracts being successive i« «i-;JT cyme — l. Opposite pairs of 

 »— woVdTeTvlt 7 Tot" 2£ "f V he T Uing f 



the bracts (when present J in p \ • ?' Tlie P 0Sltl0n of 

 flowers. 3 There arPaL < (,o) 1S not °PP osite *o the 



5. Authors have ffl If f alse impression of dichotomy. 



(as it is now propped to ca P^ -*? 6 ^ SC01 * ioid raceme 

 sympodial mfloCcence it ^^ , SpiCate degradations of 

 system, and explains \ 1??^ refers * to tbe ^definite 

 which he first dfscoveref inT^ * ■ ^ P m . 0iple ° f l^^xis, 

 and decussate lmJT&£ m^T'™' V1Z " ln res °l™g opposite 

 as is usually the else on a con^ 0neS ; ?!**»* of their lying, 

 through three-fourths of ^ £ ^F^ *»• ^line oaffil 

 flower to bract in Zl exa tlv 'thT lf * Ln . e be drawn from 

 foliage of L^mfrtfwu, w il Lpresel tST ^J??*"" 1 aS f ° r the 

 of the Borayinece. In pvaX !??H I ^^ scorpioid cyme 



J ". -in practical illustration of the above Mr. 



