10 MEETINGS. 



The retiring President, Mr. W. Luff, read a most inte- 

 resting address. 



Mr. W. Sharp, proposed by Mr. Luff and seconded by 

 Mr. Collenette, was unanimously elected President. 



Mr. Derrick was elected Secretary in succession to 

 Mr. Sharp. 



Mr. Luff was re-elected Treasurer. 



A ballot was held and the following gentlemen elected on 

 the Council for the Year : — Messrs. J. L. Pitts, J. S. Hocart, 

 C. G. De La Mare, E. C. Ozanne, F. A. Holiday and H. E. 

 Marquand. 



Auditors having been appointed, the accounts were 

 examined and passed. 



REPORT OF THE EOTAXKAL SECTION. 



The Botanical section has to report a few interesting 

 discoveries during the year. 



Mr. C. Andrews, M.A., who contributed a paper on 

 Guernsey caves to our last transactions, announced in the 

 Journal of Botany for February, 1900, the discovery of two 

 new Guernsey grasses. 



Phalaris minor, Beitz. Obs. Bot. iii., 8, 1783, and 



Milium scab rum, Merlet de la Bonlave : Herbor, Maine 

 et Loire, 220, 1809. 



He considers both to be natives of the island. Phalaris 

 minor resembles P. canariensis, and has probably been 

 confused with it. It occurs also in Alderney. It was found 

 in cultivated sandy fields near the sea, and sparingly on the 

 shore. It is not uncommon on the west coast of France. 



Milium scabrum is found growing sparingly on the south 

 cliffs of Guernsey, near Petit Bot, on the lower part of the 

 slope ; the Guernsey specimens are smaller than the continental 

 forms. These grasses have not been exhibited yet at a 

 meeting of the Society, and we have no specimen in the 

 herbarium. 



Another plant of Datura stramonium has been noted. It 

 grew in the garden of our president, Mr. W. Luff, in Burnt 

 Lane. Near it sprang up a fine specimen of Henbane 

 ( Hyoscyamus niger) ; it is many years since the last plant of 

 it was noticed in Guernsey. 



But the most remarkable and interesting discovery of 

 the year was made by Mr. Le Lacheur, Xorgeots. He found 

 a fairly large bed of Asj^aragus (A. officinalis) plentifully 



