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in Columbia. He infers that the vast region including the warm 
in various parts of the same region, a few forms so distinct as to 
be ranked as separate genera, mostly represented by one or very 
broad sense it may be said that the most natural divisions of the 
ema of the earth are wide areas of low country, over which, 
aa : : lie 
and of Lota in Chili; and lastly, briefly refers to his collections in 
the channels of Western Patagonia and Straits of Magellan. 
March 4. — Sir John Lubbock, Bart. F.R.S., President, in the 
chair. — Messrs. Gilbert CG. Bourne, W. H. Cattell, and Thomas 
A. Cotton, were elected Fellows of the Society. —There was exhibited 
5 olume of water-colour drawings of British 
er.—A paper was read by Mr. George Murray, ‘‘On a New Species 
of Rhipilia (R. Andersoni) from the Mergui Archipelago.” The 
en i i Dr. John n, F.L.S. 
(superintendent of the Calcutta Museum), in 1882, and recently 
Presented to the British Museum. It was found growing on mud- 
flats in King’s Island Bay. The genus Rhipilia was established by 
Kiitznig for the reception of two species, R. tomentosa and R. longi- 
caulis, collected by Jorden in the Antilles. To these Prof. Dickie 
added hi. Rawsoni, from Barbadoes. The new species, R. A mi, 
differs from R. tomentosa and R. longicaulis in the frond being 
completely sessile on the mass of rhizoids, and from R. Rawsoni in 
the sessile frond being entire. A hitherto unidentified, injured, 
é t 
: n two new species of Lentinus, one — 
stowing on a large Sclerotium.’” The one specially referred to 
in the title (L. scleroticola) comes from Samoa, where it was 
Collected by the Rev. 8. J. Whitmee. Its mycelium inhabits the 
tissue of the large Sclerotium, and is supposed by the author to be 
Perennial within it, giving rise to guecessive crops of Lentinus 
Under suitable circumstances. The author compares it with the 
Lentium Tuber regium Fr., of Amboina, the original account of 
_ Which is to be found in Rumphius’s ‘ Herbarium Amboinense.’— 
