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balloon-shape, and attained a longest diameter of upwards of an 
inch, while the greatest girth exceeded two inches. The Grenada 
specimens were considerably larger, and either spherical or oval in 
in the British Museum. There was possibly a specific difference 
between them. Mr. Murray then gave an account, illustrated with 
diagrams, of the development of Valonia restate Ag., as described 
by Nageli, incidentally comparing that observed in Sciadium. 
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development of Agaricus (Armillaria) melleus.— Mr. E. A. Heat 
showed some ee examples of fruits of two species of 
Solanum from Barbadoes. — A paper was read, ‘On the scars 
oe on the stem of Damn mara robusta,” by Mr. Samuel G. 
After this the slender connecting bond of wood is broken across by 
the weight of the branch or the first trivial Felence - this com- 
parenchyma which occurs across its axis. It thus happens that the 
whole of the parenchymatous system of the stem is closed before 
the branch is actually shed.—A communication porn by Messrs. 
J. G, Baker and C. B. Clarke, being a Supplementary Note on the 
Ferns of Northern India to the a author s Memoir already 
published in the Society’s ‘ Transaction 
November 17.—Prof. St. George J. iva F.R.8., Vice-President, 
in the chair.—Mr. Arthur Bennett drew attention ‘to the following 
new British plants : Arabis alpina L., Juncus alpinus Vill., and . 
tenuis Willd. — Mr. W. H. Beeby exhibited and made remarks 0 
Carex caspitosa (L.) Fr., from Shetland.—Photographs of a sential 
palm, Borassus assus flabelliformis, were exhibited for Surgeon-General G. 
Bidie, of Madras, and a letter thereon read. The tree is growing 
about eight miles from Tan ngiore, near a village named Pallucottah, 
and is remarkable in ene. divided into eight branches. He men- 
tions also having seen a flower-spike e of a cocoanut- sags in —o 
This was a new siticis of industry, ‘and investigations carried on at 
Kew proved that Broom Root was simply the wiry root-fibres of 
