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rarely been seen in this country, and of late years almost been lost 
sight of.—Mr. F. I. Warner drew attention to a series of specimens 
of Orchis incarnata from Hampshire, wherein considerable variations 
in colouring were manifest.—A paper was read by Mr. A. W. 
Bennett, ‘‘ On the reproduction of the Zygnemacee,” as a solution 
of the question—is it a sexual character? De Bary, twenty-five 
years ago, and since hen: Wittrock, have instanced what they have 
deemed sexual differences bet atin , thoug 
of the stall sepa gue anthors. He finds there is an appreciable 
os f length and diameter in the conjugating cells, that 
med fs female being the larger. The protoplasmic contents he 
have likewise been examined, and though showing differences, yet 
on the whole substantiate the view above enunciated of cell 
sexuality. 
December 6. —— Sir John Lubbock, Bart., mS in the 
chair.—H.H. Maharajah of Travancore, and Masars. C. A. Barder. 
KE. Bostock, H. Friend, J. Hannington, J. 8. Hicks, J. Richardson, 
R. Tate, and H. Ti sdall, were elected Fellows of the Society.— 
Mr. B. Daydon Jackson exhibited a specimen of ‘* Mexican whisks,” 
known also in the London market as ‘“ Chien-dent,” which are now 
imported in considerable quantity from the vicinity of La Puebla, 
in Mexico. Itis believed to be derived from an Andropogon, but is in 
bulk coarser than the similar material from Southern Europe, from 
a Gryllus, and finer than the species of Panicum used in 
India for brushes—Mr. Arthur Bennett exhibited a specimen 
of Cnn: ligerica, gathered by Mr. Cunnack in Scilly (see p. 27). 
Mr. Bennett also drew attention to some masses of agglomerated 
larch leaves, found in the Shropshire Meres, and known locally as 
‘‘ vegetable hedgehogs.”—Mr. Charles Darwin’s paper on Instinet 
d. 
December 22. — Alfred W. Bennett, F.L.S., in the chair.— 
Messrs. N. Cantley, W. Dobson, F. G. Smart, ‘and the Rev. R. 
Thom, were elected Fellows of the Society.—A paper was read by 
monies anum.” The plant isa aye of Abyssinia, ore nite in districts 
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the author shows in detail, has certain ee in the arrange- 
ment of the tissue of its leaf bundles, since the cortical system 
does not consist of branches of bundles of the leaf-trace, but are 
cauline bundles, in this respect differing widely from such forms as 
Lathyrus, Casuarina, many Begonias, &c. Rhynchopetalum, moreover, 
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