90 MEETINGS. 



Tivo rocks sent January, 1895. 



1. E. 2,281. — "Granite vein intrusive into diorite Port- 

 infer." The slide of the rock shows the apparent intrusion 

 of a granilite rich in hornblende, into one poor in that min- 

 eral. 



2. E. 2,282. — " Vein intrusive in hornblende schist, 

 Guernsey." No further locality and no description furnished. 

 A vein of oligoclase felspar and quartz intrusive along the 

 foliation planes into the hornblende schist. 



(Signed) W. W. Watts. 



March 5th, 1897. 



REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 



The past season has not been a productive one as far as 

 Guernsey proper is concerned. No addition has been made 

 to its flora. This may be accounted for partly by the dryness 

 of the season, a condition which is unfavourable to this class 

 of work, partly by the small number of workers now in the 

 section and its consequent inability to pay frequent visits to 

 the various districts of the island, but chiefly by the ex- 

 haustive character of the lists which have already been 

 published. 



Considerable additions have been made to the Herbarium, 

 which is now, for all practical purposes, complete, the re- 

 maining desiderata consisting of forest trees, most of which 

 have probably been introduced, and of the difficult genera 

 Rubis and Salix which have to be submitted to experts for 

 identification. 



Lists of the floras of Herm and Jethou have appeared in 

 former Transactions, and may be considered fairly complete, 

 and but few additions can be anticipated from these small 

 areas. 



Profitable work has been done in Sark, chiefly by Mr. 

 Derrick, whose paper on the flora of this island was read 

 before the Society on July 8th last, and forms the only con- 

 tribution of the section to this year's Transactions. The 

 result has been three additions to the Society's flora of the 

 bailiwick, two of which are new to the flora of the Channel 

 Islands. A list of these additions will be found accompanied 

 by short comments appended to this report. 



Most of our rarer plants have been noted in some plenty 

 in their old habitats. Of these Orchis morio has been found 

 to range over a much larger area than has been previously 

 known, and Centaurea aspera was observed in unusual quantity 



