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organs and orders of Fungi. The paper was accompanied 
by Tulasne’s fine work entitled “Selecta Fungorum Carpo- 
logia,” and was further illustrated by a set of Cooke’s 
“ Fungi Brittanici exsiccata,” 
Mr. Thomas Coward exhibited specimens of the following 
Willows from the Tyrol, considered to be hybrids, and of 
the supposed parent species. 
Salix macrophylla, Kerner, between S. grandifolia, Sering, and 
S. Caprea, L. 
Salix calliantha, Kerner, between S. purpurea, L., and S. 
daphnoides, L. 
Salix spuria, Schleich, between S. arbuscula, L., and S. helve- 
tica, ScliL 
Salix Huteri, Kerner, between S. helvetica, Schl., and S. 
hastata, L. 
Also three very distinct forms of S. nigricans. Sm. 
A selection of Proteacese, principally from Drummond’s 
Australian Collections, referred to by Meisner in De Can- 
dolle’s Prodromus, was also exhibited as illustrating the 
combination of great variety of form, especially in foliage 
and fruit, with a well defined ordinal character. 
It was suggested that the varieties of our common indi- 
genous plants were still worthy of the careful examination of 
botanists, especially in relation to those physiological aspects 
to which attention has been directed by Mr. Darwin’s 
inquiries and reasonings respecting the propagation and 
permanence of aberrant organic forms. 
Mr. Charles Bailey distributed specimens of Scirpus 
parvulus R. and S., collected by himself, in August last, at 
its newly discovered station in Wicklow. The plant grows 
in abundance near the harbour of Arklow, at the mouth of 
the river Ovoca, on large sandy flats, which are covered by 
