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Sea-weeds.’—D. Landsborough, ‘ Australian and N. Zealand plants 
grown in Arran.’ — W. Craig, ‘ Excursion of Scottish Alpine Bot. 
Club to Teesdale in 1884.’ — J. Buchanan, ‘ Vegetation and vege- 
table products of Blantyre and Zourba districts of Africa.’ —J. 
Lowe, ‘ Asplenium germanicum.’ — A. Dickson, ‘ Development of 
bifoliar spurs into ordinary buds in Pinus sylvestris.’ 
LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
February 18,1886.—Prof. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., in the chair. 
—Prof. H. Macaulay Posnett, of New Zealand, was elected a Fellow 
of the Society.—There was shown for Mr. oshua over 130 
specimens of lichens, collected and preserved by Mr..G. Hart, 
of Gordon Town, Jamaica, and determined by Dr. J. Miiller (Arg.), 
of Geneva; many of these were rare and of interest. Micro- 
Coca in fruit.— Mr. J. Ball read a paper ‘On the Botany of 
Western South America.” In his introduction he deals with the 
climatal relations of the western seaboard of that Co 
f des : 
observed that where fogs rest in winter, even in the so-called 
rainless zone of Peru and Chili, considerable vegetation exists, this 
however, ceasing abruptly outside the limit of the cloud. Southern 
ili is influenced by warm westerly winds, and at Concepcion and 
uniformly to Cape Horn. Indeed, the dominant beech forests, 
abundance of delicate ferns, title the 
