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beautiful and widely distributed Central European species, 

 being also found in Asia Minor and Turkey, and C. lunula, 

 Hufn. (better known by the name of C. linaria'WJV.), even more 

 widely extended in its range, and probably found as far east 

 as Siberia. This latter was till lately included in all British 

 lists (received in 1817 by the late Mr. Stephens, from 

 Woodside, Epping Forest). The range of C. platyptera is 

 very similar, viz., Central and Southern Europe, Crete, 

 Camida, and extending to Bithynia in Asia Minor. It is 

 quite likely to be established on our southern coasts, and 

 we trust C. lunula Hufn. may again reappear also. 



The food-plants of the larva are members of the order 

 Scvophulavinece, e.g., the Toadflax and Figwort. 



[Microscopical and Natural History Section^] 



Ordinary Meeting, December 7th, 1896. 



Mark Stirrup, F.G.S., President of the Section, 



in the Chair. 



Mr. H. Fisher, botanist attached to the Jackson- 

 Harmsworth Polar Expedition, sent for exhibition a large 

 collection of Arctic Plants collected by him from the Franz 

 Joseph Archipelago. Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill and Mr. Th, Rogers 

 also showed, for comparison, large collections of plants from 

 Greenland, Spitzbergen, and the west side of Baffin's Bay. 



A vote of thanks to Mr. H. C. Harmsworth for lending 

 these plants (which only reached this country during the 

 autumn) for exhibition, was proposed and carried unani- 

 mously. 



The following is a list of the plants exhibited : — 



1. Ranunculus nivalis L. Cape Flora, Northbrook Island, 



nth July, 1896. 



2. Papaver nudicaule L. Cape Flora, August, 1895; and 



nth July, 1896. 



