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BOTANICAL SECTION . 
January l/th, 1868.— The Members assembled at the residence of 
Mr. Lobb, Cotham Brow. 
After tea, Mr. S. Derham was voted to the chair, and the accounts for 
the previous year having been read and audited, the consideration of the m 
and the other business of the Annual Meeting was adjourned until 
February, and the present converted into an ordinary one. 
The Honorary Secretary, Mr. Yabbtcom, exhibited a living specimen 
of Asplenium Nigrum, from Devonshire, and explained the fructification 
by a portion mounted dry, as an opaque object for the microscope. 
It was requested that all Members, when they had an opportunity, would 
contribute to the Meetings specimens or short communications. 
Mr. Lobb showed some specimens of Mosses from this neighbourhood, 
and other localities, well in fruit. 
The same gentleman also exhibited a collection of Marine Algae, from 
Malaga, on the Mediterranean, collected between November and March, 
1851-52, by Mrs. Lingford, named and arranged by Lady Tennyson. 
Among a large number of specimens, the following, Nitophyllum uncin- 
atum and Callithamnion trocherii, have not been found in England, and 
many others but very rarely, as 
Rytiploea complanata 
Haliseris polypodioides 
Dudresnaia coccinea 
Gigartina Teedii 
while others commonly found with us have not been recorded previously 
so far south as Sphacelaria plumosa, and Lyngbia majescula. In many 
the normal form showed considerable modification, the change being 
probably as much due to the habitat as to the latitude. 
