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LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
June 21, 1883.—Professor P. M. Duncan, Vice-President, in 
the chair.—The following sect relat were balloted for and elected 
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specimen of Polyporus sulphureus was exhibited for the Rev. 
arland; it was obtained from the stem of a yew tree in ‘the 
tralia, were sh r.C nard; among these were species 
of Tasmatioverhn Hisothecar yon, Ochthodocaryon, Spondylostrobus, 
Plesiocapparis and others.—Mr. W. T. Fr. Dyer exhibited several 
interesting table economic products, an arks thereon. 
Of a species of wax extracted by Mr. D. Morris, of Jalishioss from 
Mare microcarpa, it was stated that while the berries are used for 
n South Africa, the West Indian fruits had not 
hitherto been fied for this purpose. Of grey camphor-like 
cacy the product of Artemisia Mowa, he atone such to be 
xample among the Composite; and there was a proba- 
bility that this camphor was that used in the production of Indian 
ink by the Chinese, and which gave the peculiar aromatic odour 
to the trne China ink. A Rosar ry made of fruits of Trapa verban- 
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d candles made from Rhus vernicifera of Japan; the latter 
sescmpiereg s A ales a local industry which unfortunately is now 
on account of the rivalry of the cheap American oils.— 
Pm ae was Saad by Mr. R. A. Rolfe, - Kew, ‘‘On the Selagines 
described by Linneus, Bergius, Linneus fil., and Thunberg.” In 
working up @ monograph of this Taglased order it has been found 
that the species of the early writers have been entirely misunder- 
stood. This has partly arisen from the imperfect practise page and 
absence of authentic specimens; likewise from certain species 
thus Hebenstreitia dentata L., and Selago fruticosa Li. were unknown 
to Thunberg, though he applied the names to very different er : 
and other instances similar in kind could be mentioned. The author 
has adopted a chronological order in treating of his subject as bine 
st con ted the condition of the original 
specimens preserved in herbaria, and what has been done with 
each by the later writers. Choisy’ s monograph in the 12th volume 
of De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus’ (1848) is taken as the latest revision 
of the order. The Selagines of Bergius in Stockholm, of Thun- 
berg’s in Upsala, and of Choisy’s types in Berlin, have kindly been 
placed at the author’s disposal by Professors Warming, Fries, and 
ichler, and a careful comparison been made of all the specimens 
in the herbaria of the British Museum and Kew, some of the old 
types in the diag ih being cm caged interesting.—The 
following paper was taken as rea otes on some new economic 
products etait ened at the Royal a ea Kew,” by Mr. 
W.7.T. Dyer. 
