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General Meeting of the Society. 



Lnr,//i///. Meadows and pastures. P. Fl. September, October. 

 Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. In all the Districts, more or less distributed. 



The flowers appear in succession, rising* from the cormus, with a 

 very long narrow tube, surrounded at the base with a membraneous 

 sheath. The stamens are inserted on the oblong-ovate segments of 

 the pale purple perianth. Germen at the base of the cormus, the 

 long, thread-like styles running up the whole length of the tube. 



The leaves and fruit appear in spring, and are withered before 

 summer. A remarkable variety of this species/ C. autumnale, flor. 

 serotinis, Engl. Bot. t. 1432, was found by the late William Salmon, 

 Esq., for many successive seasons in a field of rough furze pasture, 

 called the Nine Hills, near Drew's Pond, Devizes (South-middle 

 District) , bearing its flowers and leaves together, in the months of 

 April and May, but the former are abortive, in consequence of their 

 tardy unseasonable development. The lengthened segments of the 

 perianth, and its pale greenish hue contrast strongly with the ordinary 

 habit of the plant. I have repeatedly visited the locality for several 

 years past but have never been successful in finding a specimen, and 

 the field being ploughed up, this interesting plant is I fear now 

 destroyed. 



(fatal greeting of % jSoaefj) for loji. 



HE general annual meeting of the Society was held December 

 29th, 1871, at two o'clock, at the Savings Bank, Devizes, 

 (Sir John Awdry in the chair,) at which the proceedings were con- 

 fined to the reading of the Report, the election of officers for the 

 year ensuing, and the adjournment for three weeks, for the further 

 consideration of the proposal for the purchase by subscription, of 

 premises for a Museum and Library at Devizes. 



