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General Meeting, January 24th, 1882. 
E. Angus Smith, Ph.D., F.E.S., &c., in the Chair. 
Mr. William Thomas Arnold, B.A., was elected an Ordi- 
nary Member of the Society. 
Ordinary Meeting, January 24th, 1882. 
E. Angus Smith, Ph.D., F.E.S., &c., in the Chair. 
“On the British species of Erythrcea,” by Chables 
Bailey, F.L.S. 
I exhibit to-night a full set of the species of this poly- 
morphic genus, from numerous localities in Great Britain, 
to show their great range of form and habit. Their nu- 
merous variations appear to depend upon the greater or 
lesser ramification of the stem, and of the inflorescence. 
In Erythrcea pulchella, Fries, we have the single-stemmed, 
one to three flowered form, an inch or an inch and a half in 
height, and at the other extreme we have a repeatedly- 
branched form which was at one time separated from pul- 
chella as a distinct species, under the name of E. ramosissima, 
Pers. When the inflorescence is spicate it is the E. tenui- 
flora, Link; this form Mr. Townsend meets with near 
Cowes, Isle of Wight. 
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