BOTANICAL SOCIETY OP CANADA. 
181 
Eleventh Meeting. 
FRIDAY EVENING, 14th FEBRUARY, 1862. 
Professor Dickson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following new members were admitted : 
Mrs Prof Litchfield, Rockwood ; Mrs Rybert Kent, Union Street ; Miss Wylie, 
Almonte ; Mr. Burrowes, Kingston Mills ; Mr. Samuel Andrews, Clark's Mills, Cam- 
den. 
Edward Tuckerman, A.M., Professor of Botany, Amherst College, was elected 
an Honorary Member. 
Dr. Duncanson, Forth Bank, Alloa, was elected a Corresponding Member. 
The following donations were announced : — From Judge Logic, Hamilton, a 
valuable collection of Tree Seeds for the Garden. From Professor Blytt, Christi- 
ania, his Norge Flora, part I. From the Australian Apiarian Society, the Society's 
Rules, &c. From the Board of Arts and Manufactures of Upper Canada, several 
numbers of their Journal. From the Horticultural Society of Melbourne, List of 
Prizes, &c. From Principal Dawson, Montreal, several papers on Fossil Botany. 
The following papers were read : — 
1. On Fungi. 
2. List of Lichens collected chiefly on the Thousand Islands. By A. T. Deum- 
MOND, Jr., B. A., and R. Drummond. 
3. On the Polar Plant. By W. Goreie, with Remarks by Rev. Prof. William- 
son. 
4. Additional observations on the Medicinal Plants of the neighborhood of 
Harrowsmith. By Thos. R. Ddpdis, M. D. 
5. Notices of the Great Dragon Tree of Orotavo, from the writings of Baron 
Humboldt and Prof Piazzi Smith. By Rev. Prof Mowat. 
Photographs, including one of the Dragon Tree, taken by Prof. P. Smith at 
Orotavo, were shown by means of an oxy-calcium microscope ; also, preparations 
illustrating the minute structure of woods, &c., and the reproductive organs of 
Cryptogamic plants, the antheridia and archegonia of mosses, &c. 
REMARKS ON DR. TROUSDALE'S CASE OF POISONING WITH 
CICUTA MACULATA. 
Professor Lawson called attention to a serious case of poisoning that had 
occurred through the mistaken use of the roots of Cicuta maculata for those of 
Aralia racemosa. He remarked : — 
Settlers in a new country are prone to seek, in the plants around them, reme- 
