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Abbe Delavay lias collected and sent home specimens of the 

 Chinese Primrose. They were found on calcareous rock, on the 

 borders of the Blue Eiver, in the gorges of Y-Tchang, in the 

 Province of Ho-Pe. 



We have also received an interesting note from the Director 

 of the Hong Kong Botanic Gardens with reference to the culture 

 of this same Primula sinensis in China. " We manage to grow 

 the cultivated variety of P. sinensis in Hong-Kong during the 

 cold season, but they invariably damp off when the hot weather 

 sets in. They have not even time to mature their seed. We have 

 therefore to get a fresh supply from England every autumn." 



From Canada we have received a number of dried specimens 

 of P. mistassinica from Lake Mistassini and other localities in 

 Canada. It is a little plant very nearly allied to our farinosa. 

 Among the specimens Professor Maccoun has sent there are some 

 that seem intermediate between the two. A living specimen of 

 the same species has been sent by Dr. Asa Gray through Messrs. 

 Veitch. 



Dr. von Begel, of the St. Petersburg Gardens, has sent through 

 Messrs. Veitch a living plant of Primula algida, and has also 

 sent at the same time a series of dried specimens from Western 

 Turkestan. [Subsequently presented to the Kew herbarium. — Ed.] 



Professor Willkomm, of Prague, regrets exceedingly that he is 

 unable to be present, but is desirous of calling attention to two 

 species figured by him in his " Illustrationes Florae Hispaniae." 

 Primula vulgaris var. balearica, tab. 35, has pare white flowers 

 and leaves tapering into an unusually narrow stalk, and which 

 Professor Willkomm now considers to be specifically distinct from 

 the common Primrose. The second plant to which he calls 

 attention is Cyclamen balearicum, from the Balearic Islands, 

 tab. 5, and which looks very different from any ordinary Cyclamen. 



Professor Kanitz, of Kolozsvar, Transilvania, has sent 

 flowering specimens of Primula carpatica. 



The Chairman : The third item on the Agenda is that the 

 Chairman should propose a vote of thanks to the various 

 botanists who have contributed specimens, and in other ways 

 contributed to the success of this meeting. I have the greatest 

 possible pleasure in proposing that, and I feel sure you will 

 carry it by acclamation. It has been of great assistance to us 

 to have had the co-operation of foreign botanists, although, I am 



