142 MEETINGS. 



REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 



The past year has been in several respects an eventful 

 one for this section. In Phanerogamic Botany it is marked 

 by the virtual completion of our Sark flora, a result attained 

 by the copious lists made during the visits of Mr. Derrick, 

 the Rev. Moyle Rogers and others to that island. 



The visit of Mr. Rogers (who is the recognised authority 

 on the British Rosas and Rubi) to the Channel Islands was 

 also a very interesting event ; we are indebted to him for the 

 list of additions to the roses, and the catalogue of species for 

 this difficult genus may now be considered complete both for 

 Guernsey and S3 ark ; it is very short, unf ortunately , our islands 

 being unusually poor both in species and plants as compared 

 with other British areas. We have, however, compensations 

 in other directions. 



Of the Rubi both our species and plants are much more 

 numerous, and a fair list has been compiled; but as several 

 specimens have yet to be determined it has been thought best 

 to defer its publication until next year. It is expected that 

 a monograph on the Rubi of the Channel Islands and North- 

 ern France will be published in the Journal of Botany early 

 in 1898, to which I may refer those who are anxious to obtain 

 early information on the subject. 



The list of Fungi which appears in these Transactions 

 will make the year a memorable one for Cryptogamic Botany 

 also. In my report for 1894 I had the honour to state that 

 with the sole exception of this large and difficult class our flora 

 was then up to date. Owing to unusually favourable circum- 

 stances, which are referred to more fully in Mr. Marquand's 

 introduction to the list, we had an almost unique opportunity 

 of filling up this gap. In the work of collection the section 

 appealed to the members generally for assistance, and this 

 appeal has been nobly responded to, the result being a record 

 one, no less than 450 different species having been collected, 

 packed and forwarded to London, and there examined and 

 named in the short space of four months. I may add that 

 the number of species by no means represents the number of 

 specimens sent up. These would probably number about 

 2,000. Such a result could not have been obtained by the 

 members of the section alone, and their hearty thanks are 

 tendered to those who have so ably assisted them. 



The valuable help and, to them, still more valuable time, 

 so freely given to the section by such distinguished and 

 consequently much occupied men as Mr. George Massee, 

 F.L.S., and the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, F.L.S., merits the 



