340 Shapter, Thos., M.D., The Barnfield, Exeter Shaw, George James, M.D. Shaw, John Edward, M.B., 2 Rodney Sherwood, E., M.D., Prospect Hill, Sidney, M. J. F., Cowpen, Morpeth Slack, Robert, M.D., Holywalk, Leaming ton Southwell, Thomas, F.Z.S., Earlham Road, Spasshatt, Samuel P., M.D., Armidale, Spruce, Richard, Ph.D., Welburn, York 350 Stables, Wm. Alex., Nairn Steel, Gavin, of Carphin, Lanarkshire Stevens, Rev. Charles Abbott, M. A., Goud- Stewart, Samuel A., 6 North St., Belfast Taylor, R. H., M.D., 1 Percy St., Liverpool Thomson, Spencer, M.D., Ashton, Torquay 360 Thomson, William, L.R.C.P. and S., 6 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh Tinne, John A., Briarley, Aigburth, *Townsend, F., Shedfield Lodge, Fareham *Traill, W., of Woodwick, M.D., St Trevelyan, Sir Walter C., Bart., M.A., Walker, V. E., Arno's Grove, Southgate, Wallich, George Charles, M.D., F.L.S., 11 Earl's Watson, Hewett Cottrell, F.L.S., Thames- White, Alfred, F.L.S., West Drayton White, Frank Isa, M.D., Perth Wilkinson, M. A. Eason, M.D., 25 Gore Wilks, G. A. F., M.D., Woodburn, Torquay 380 Wilson, A. Stephen, North Kinmundy, Summerhill, Aberdeen Wright, R. Ramsay, M.A., B.Sc., Professor Young, Edward, Neath, South Wales LADY ASSOCIATES. Mrs Alexander, 7 Rosebery Crescent, Edin. Miss Agnes Carnegie, Edinburgh *Mrs Bain, 9 Napier Road, Edinburgh The Most Hon. the Marchioness Cornwallis 5 Mrs Scrymsoure Fothringham, Fothringham House, Forfarshire Miss Gage, Isle of Rathlin, Ballycastle *Miss Frances Hope, Wardie Lodge, Edin- Lady Kane, Raglan Road, Dublin Mrs Michael Percival 11 Miss Anna Maria Plowden FOREIGN AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. N. I. Anderssen, Professor of Botany, Stock- R. W. Arderne, Wynberg, Cape of Good John Erhart Areschoug, M.D., Professor of F. Marius Barneoud, Advocate, Toulon 5 F. Graf von Berchtold, Prague Axel Blytt, Keeper of the Herbarium, Edmond Boissier, Geneva H. A. Bolander, Botanist to the Geological Survey of California Dietrich Brandis, Ph.D., Inspector-General of Forests, Calcutta 10 Henry Hunter Calvert, British Vice-Consul, Alexandria, Egypt Robert Caspary, Professor of Botany, and Director of the Botanic Garden, Konigsberg Casimir De Candolle, Geneva Baron de Castello de Paiva, M.D. (Paris), Dominique Clos, M.D., Professor of Botany, 15 Dr Ferd. Cohn, Professor of Botany Breslau Senhor Joaquim Correa de Mello, Cam Hon. G. A. Cunningham, Mauritius 20 Dr Federico Delpino, Professor of Botany, Frederick Adolphus Dietl, Vienna P. Duchartre, Professor of Botany to the August Wilhelin Eichler, Professor of 25 Franz Xaver Fieber, Chrudim, Bohemia A. Fischer, Wurtemburg F. Glocker, Brazil Ch. H. Godet, Neufchatel, Switzerland 30 Dr Gottsche, Altona, Hamburg G. C. Grech-Delicata, M.D., Prof. Nat. M. Guthnick, Berne, Switzerland Joseph Haffner, M.D., Gratz, Styria 35 Dr Johannes Hanstein, Prof. ssor of Botany, Bonn Theodore Von Heldreich, Professor of Theodor Helm, M.D., Vienna Ludwig Ritter von Heufler, Vienna Dr Fr. Hildebrand, Professor of Botany, 40 Dr Hermann Hoffinan, Giessen John Horne, F. L.S., Director of the Royal James Africanus Beale Horton, M.D., Thilo Irmisch, Professor in Sondershausen 45 Dr Karl Jessen, Professor of Botany, University of Greifswald H. Jewett, M.D., Drayton, Ohio, United Auguste le Jolis, Cherbourg Mahomed Ali Katib, M.D., Egypt Albert Kellogg, M.D., San Francisco, California 50 Albert Kölliker, M.D., Professor of Physiology, Würzburg C. F. Kretschmar, Sonnewalde, Lusatia Friedrich Traugott Kuetzing, M.D., Professor of Natural History, Nordhausen Johannes Martin Lange, Professor and Director of the Botanic Garden, Copenhagen C. B. Lehmann, Offenbach 55 Rev. Louis Leresche, St Cierge, sur Moudon, Switzerland Wilhelm Ley, Military Apothecary, Juliers Daniel Jerome Macgowan, M.D., Ningpo, Giuseppe Meneghini, M.D., Professor of 60 A. Millardet, Professor of Botany to the Faculty, Nancy, France Edouard Morren, Professor of Botany,│ Christian Munch, Basle, Switzerland William Murray, San Francisco 65 C. Naudin, Member of the Institute of France, Collioure, Pyrenees Guill, Nylander, Ph.D., 14 Rue de Cardinal Dr Ernst Pfitzer, Professor of Botany, Dr R. A. Philippi, Professor of Botany in 70 S. Louis Pisani, M.D., Malta J. E. Planchon, Sc.D., Director of the L. Rabenhorst, Professor in Dresden 75 G. Reichenbach, Prof. of Botany, Hamburg Johannes Chr. Röper, M.D., Ph.D., Profes sor of Botany and Zoology, Rostock, Dr Edouard Rostan, Vallée de Pérouse, Ferdinand Rugel, United States J. L. Schaller, Fribourg, Switzerland 80 Soverio Schembri, M.D., Rector of the University, Malta Joseph J. Schiffer, Apothecary, Gratz, Dr R. Schomburgk, Director of the Govern- C. R. Schumann of Golzen, Apothecary, C. Sim, M.D., Naples 85 Otto Wilhelm Sonder, Ph.D., Hamburg Luis Sodiro, Professor of Botany, University of Quito, Ecuador W. F. R. Suringar, Professor of Botany, Nicolas Terracciano, Director of the Royal Mahomed Ali Soubki, M.D., Egypt 90 Armand Thielens, D. N. Sc., Tirlemont Ph. Van Tieghem, Ecole Normale, Paris 94 Maurice Wilkommn, Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanic Garden, Dorpat TRANS. BOT. SOC. VOL. XIII. d ASSOCIATES. Bell, William, Markham Grant, Dehra Doon, Brocas, F. Y., 4 Mill Street, Conduit Street, Brotherston, Andrew, Shedden Park Road, 5 Caird, Francis M., M.B., C.M., 18 Calton Hill, Edinburgh Campbell, A., Station Agent, Burntisland Evans, William, Scottish Widows' Fund, St 10 Gray, Peter, Caithness Howie, Charles, Eden Cottage, Largo Kerr, Andrew, Taxidermist, Montrose 15 Macfarlane, G., 3 Bangor Road, Leith M'Nab, T., Canada Matheson, Adam, Jedburgh Mudd, William, A.L.S., Bot. Garden, Cam- 20 Munro, Robertson, Abercorn Nursery, Jock's Lodge, Edinburgh Pamplin, William, A.L.S., Llanderfel, Peach, Charles W., A.L.S., 30 Haddington Robinson, James F., Frodsham, Cheshire 25 Scott, Johu, Patna, Bankipore, Bengal 29 Whittaker, Joseph, Ferriby Brook, Morley, Derby Societies and Universities to which the Society's Transactions are sent. Copies are also sent to the British and Foreign Honorary Fellows of the Society. PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY. SESSION XLII. Thursday, 8th November 1877.-Sir WYVILLE THOMSON, LL.D., Vice-President, occupied the Chair, and delivered an opening address. The following Statement respecting the Members was read by the Chairman :— The following Candidate was elected a Resident Fellow : Rev. DUGALD MACMILLAN, M.A., 12 Chalmers Crescent. The following Communications were read: I. Obituary Notices of Deceased Members. By Mr F. M. WEBB. II. On Fossil Lichens. By W. LAUDER LINDSAY, M.D., F.L.S., F.R.S.E. III. Notes on a New Species of Agaric (Agaricus Sadleri, Berk.) By Mr JOHN SADLER. MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 1. A note was read from Rev. David Landsborough, giving an account of a plant of Edwardsia microphylla, at present growing in the open air at Kilmarnock, where it has stood for several years without protection, and is now three and a half feet in height. He also reported that a plant of Dicksonia antarctica is growing to perfection in the open air at Corrie, in Arran, where it was planted some years ago. 2. Dr Balfour exhibited dried specimens of Indian Pandani which he had received from Dr King, Calcutta. He also exhibited branches of Sea-Buckthorn covered with ripe fruit, and reported that the plant had fruited abundantly this season on the shore at Tynninghame. 4. Mr W. Evans exhibited specimens of Trichomanes radicans which he had collected last summer on Torc Mountain, Killarney. 5. Mr W. P. Drummond exhibited fully expanded Pear blossoms from his garden, near Edinburgh, and stated that late flowering of the Pear was not uncommon this season. 6. Sir P. Murray Threipland presented to the Museum at the Botanic Garden a cone of Araucaria imbricata, which had been produced this season in his garden at Fingask Castle, Errol. 7. Mr Sadler exhibited specimens and coloured drawings of Peziza Ada, Sadler; P. cretea, Cooke; P. tectoria, Cooke; and P. cocotina, Cooke. The drawings were executed by Dr M. C. Cooke, London. 8. Mr M'Nab placed on the table flowering plants of two varieties of Primula capitata. 9. Dr Paterson, Bridge of Allan, exhibited a specimen of Cypripedium barbatum bearing two monstrous flowers on the same peduncle; also twin flowers of Lycaste Skinneri, and a twin fruit of the common Vegetable Marrow. |