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LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
December 7, 1882.—- Sir J. Lubbock, Bart., President, in oe 
chair.—The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the 
ciety : — The Rev. R. Baron, F. O. Bower, T. H. Corry, O. 4 
Fraser, D. Houston, A. W. Howitt, H. McCallum, E. % Petherick, 
S. Rous, and H. C. Stone.— The Rev. R. P. Murray showed speci- 
mens of ge Song Vicia Orobus, and Phlomis fruticosa, obtained 
by him last s in Somerset. — Mr. Dyer exhibited and ex. 
plained maps illustrative of the Phylloxera in Spain and Portugal. 
In 1881 there was only one infested centre to the east of Oporto 
in 1882 there wie five others, and there could be little doubt 
that it would over the whole of northern Portapal . In Spain the 
vineyards of the province of Malaga were more than two-thirds 
infested ; there seemed no hope that any would escape, and 
the consequent loss would be very great, as the annual value of 
hat of al 
roducts was a mi 
other agricultural products put together. — Mr. Dyer also exhibited 
photographs of the cultivation of Cinchona succirubra se eight. to 
ten years old, 25-80 ft. high) and C. officinalis in Ceylon.— A paper 
by J. G. Otto Tepper was read, wherein he recounted the discovery 
by him, near Adelaide, South hestealig’ of above ninety species of 
Tasmanian plants. — A contribution by Dr. W. Nylander and 
the Rev. J. bss Crombie was read, ‘“‘On a Collection of Exotic 
Ticheria’ made in mage Asia by the teks Dr. A, G, Maingay.” 
Those iGumests d were from British Burmah, China and Japan 
some are Snteresting as eth el of Lichen distribution, and 
others as new eo and ties. — The Rey. R. P. Murray 
varieti 
afterwards mad yeti on Sweraits flowers of Hoya 
carnosa sacdtiain fertile flow 
-21~—A...W. por 2 , M.A., in the chair.—Prof. A. 
Ernst, of Caracas, and Dr. ¥ C. Uinlaake, of Ceylon, were elected 
Fellows.—Mr. Thos. H. Corry read a paper ‘On the Development 
and Mode of Fertilization of the Leetaon of Asclepias Cornuti Dene.,’ 
of which the following is ary :—R. Brown (1809), J. B. 
Payer Page and 7 Schacht, Jaan all made Asclepias the subject 
of careful study. Mr. Corry has nevertheless been able to add 
new observations thereto. The large disk-shaped body which 
rmed 
of the two fees pre and not by shat of the two stigmas. He has 
dries a ardens, 
processes of the connective; he has further ascertained, in | 
opposition to the ideas of ce ag and Brongniart, that at five points, 
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