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BEPOETS OF MEETINGS. 
The lantern was used at the Febrnaryj March^ May, 
October, and December meetings, while Dr. Francises lecture 
at the November meeting was illustrated by a number of 
experiments. 
S. H. EEYNOLDS, Hon. Sec, 
BOTANICAL SECTION, 
P erhaps the most interesting subject that has lately 
occupied the attention of the Bristol botanists is the 
local distribution of Bladderworts. A few years ago only 
one species of Utricularia {U. vulgaris) was known in the 
district, and but two in the county of Somerset. After a 
while some foliage specimens, obtained from ditches near 
Weston-in-Oordano, were thought by the Rev. E. E. Linton, 
who has well studied the genus, to be probably a new 
species or hybrid. More recently, in pits cut in the turf- 
moor, S.E. of Shapwick Station, U. neglecta has been 
detected, flowering freely. Again, on examining some peaty 
ditches in the Walton valley, there was found a quantity of 
fine, delicate stems with glabrous winter-buds, which it is 
considered can only belong to U, minor ^ the smallest species 
of the group. Although this had not been seen before in 
the area of the Bristol coal-fields, it had one other locality in 
Somerset on the Glastonbury moor, where floweriug plants 
have been collected. It will be understood, therefore, that 
although the local flora is now believed to comprise four 
species or varieties of British Bladderworts, the records for 
two of them depend on foliage specimens merely. And it is 
this uncertainty in flowering which makes it so difficult 
to ascertain the distribution of these curious plants. One or 
two of the species produce flowers but rarely, while none can 
be said to flower regularly or freely in proportion to the 
