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Winkleriana A. & H M Jurinea variabilis A. & H M Centaurea plumosa 

 A. & EL, Lactaca longirostra A. & H., Acantholimon Eca A. & H., 

 A. speciosissimum A. & H., Cistanche Ridgeioaycma A. & H., C. lam* 

 flora A. & H., Chanmsphacos afghanicus A. & H., Stachys trinerris 

 A. & H., Eremostachys persimilis A. & H., E. Regeliana A. & H., 

 Habenaria Aitchisoni Echb. f., U. Josephi Rchb. f., Iris Foster iana 

 Aitch. & Baker, I. drepanophylla A. & B., Allium leitcosphmum 

 A. & B., A. Yatei A. & B., A. xiphopetalum A. & B. : 48 plates). 



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April 5th, 1888. — William Carruthers, P.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — The following were admitted Fellows of the Society : 

 Messrs. D. Sharpe, J. B. Farmer, and J. A. Voelcker. Mr. G. B. 

 Sowerby was balloted for, and elected a Fellow. — Amongst the 

 exhibitions of the evening Mr. D. Morris showed a curious 

 native bracelet from Martinique. Although formed apparently of 

 seeds, or beads of wood, or bone, its real composition had puzzled 

 both botanists and zoologists, and until microscopically examined 

 could not be determined. — Mr. J. G. Baker, F.E.S., exhibited a 

 series of specimens of Adiantum Fergusoni and A. Capillus Veneris, 

 and offered some remarks upon their specific and varietal characters. 

 — Mr. Clement Eeid exhibited a series of fruits and seeds obtained 

 by Mr. J. Bennie from interglacial deposits near Edinburgh, 



affording evidence of a colder climate formerly than that now 

 prevailing in the lowlands of Scotland. 



April 19th. — William Carruthers, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Messrs. Alexander Whyte and G. B. Sowerby were admitted 

 Fellows of the Society, and the following were balloted for and 

 elected: F. E. Weiss, Rev. W. Johnston, and E. G. Alexander. 

 The following were elected Auditors : for the Council, Mr. A. D. 

 Michael and Dr. John Anderson ; for the Fellows, Messrs. B. 

 Morris and G. Murray.— Mr. George Murray exhibited some speci- 

 mens of Spongocladia, with explanatory coloured 'diagrams, and 

 made some interesting remarks on the presence of sponge-spicules 

 on Algas at present unaccounted for. — Mr. D. Morris, of Kew, 

 exhibited and made remarks upon the Bird-catching Sedge, Uncinv 

 jawaicenxh. — Mr. John R. Jackson, of Kew, exhibited some table- 

 mats from Canada, made of the highly -seen ted grass, Hicrochloe 

 borecdis, and a sample of the so-called pine wool prepared from the 

 leaves of the American long-leaved or turpentine-yielding pip e > 

 Finns awtralis, with a mat made from the wool, an industry which 

 has recently been started on a large scale at Wilmington, North 

 Carolina,— The first paper of the evening was by the Rev. George 

 Post (communicated by Mr. Thiselton Dyer), and contained de- 

 scriptions of new plants from Palestine. In the absence of the 

 author, the salient points in the paper were admirably demonstrated 

 by Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., who exhibited specimens of the plants 

 alluded to. — A paper was then read by the Botanical Secretary* 

 Mr. B. Daydon Jackson, on behalf of Prof. Fream, " On the Flora 

 of Water Meadows." 



