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THE T RANS ACTIONS OP THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON VOLUME XX LONDON: PRINTED BV RICHARD TAYLOR, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET: SOLD AT THE SOCIETY'S HOUSE, SOHO-SQUARE ; AND BY LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW AND WILLIAM WOOD, TAVISTOCK-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN /SUXc> — MDCCCLI ; CONTENTS PART I.— 1846 I On the Development of the Griffith, Esq., F.L.S F.R.S., F.L.S 8^c II Some Observations upon parasitic upon Ovulum in Avicennia By the late William Communicated by R H Solly, Esq., Sgc page new Species of Hectocotyle, D Ch., and Argonauta Argo, the Structure of two Tremoctopus violaceus, with an Exposition of the Hypothesis that these Hectocotylae are the Males of the Cephalopoda upon which they are found By A Kol- Linn ; liker, Professor of Physiology and Comparative versity of Zurich Anatomy in the UniCommunicated by Robert Brown, Esq., V.P.L.S Sgc III Descriptions of some unpublished Species of Plants from North-PVestern India By M Pakenham Edgeworth, Esq., F.L.S., Bengal Civil Ser23 vice IV On the Indian Species of Balanophora, Balanophoreae V On By and on a new Genus of the the lateWiLhiAM Griffith, Esq., F.L.S S^c Agaricus crinitus, Linn., and some allied Species Berkeley, M.J., F.L.S 8fc By Family 93 the Rev, M J 109 VI Caricis Species novce, vel minus cognitce Auctore Francisco Boott, M.D., S.L.S 8sc 115 VII Remarks on the Examination of some Fossil JVoods, which tend to elucidate the Structure of certain Tissues in the recent Plant John Quekett, Esq., F.L.S 5fc VIII Descriptions of ChB\c\6\{Q& By By Edwin 149 Francis Walker, Esq., F.L.S ^c 153 CONTENTS vi PART An Enumeration IX of the Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago ; with Descriptions of those which are new By Joseph Dalton Hooker, Esq., M.D., F.L.S X II.— 1847 On page 163 S^c the Vegetation of the Galapagos Archipelago, as compared with that of some other Tropical Islands and of the Continent of America By Joseph Dalton Hooker, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S 8vo 2965 Nachrichten von der Georg- Augusts Universitat und der Konigl Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen, von 1845 7- Gottingen, 8vo — 2734 Naturalists' Pocket Almanack for 1846 and 1847- London, 12mo 2334 Nieuwe Verhandelingen der Iste klasse van het Koninklijk-Nederlandsche Instituut van Wetenschappen, &c te Amsterdam, deel 11 13 Amsterdam, 1845 8, — — 4to 2966 Notices et extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliotheque dite de Burgoyne, lere partie Bruxelles, 1829, 4to 2967 Nouveaux Memoires de I'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres de Bruxelles, tomes 3, & 7—20 Bruxelles, 1826—47, 4to 1024 Nova Acta Physico-medica Academiae Vratislaviae et Bonnae, 1845, 4to Caesareae Naturae Curiosorum, tom 21 Catalogue of the Library of the Linnean Society 2968 Ofversigt af Kong Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar 1—6 Stockholm, 1845—7, Arg — 1845—48, Bell, — London, 1846 8, 8vo 1026 Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Zrd 7- 1, 2, & nos 8vo 2737 Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, edited by 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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, nos 25 30 8vo 180 1947 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, nos 131 London, 1844 — — — 8, 8vo 2972 Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, nos —8, — 13 London, 1845 8vo 1949 Recueils des Actes des Seances publiques de P Academic Imperiale des Sciences de St Petersbourg, 1845 St Petersbourg, tenues en 1844 6, 4to — — 2742 Rendiconto delle adunanze e de'lavori dell' Accademia delle Scienze, nos 31 —33 Napoli, 1847, 4to 2743 Rendiconto delle sessiohi dell' 1841—5 1117 Reports (25 Accademia delle Scienze dell' Istituto di Bologna dal Bologna, 8vo —27) of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Leeds, 1845 — 7) 8vo 1951 Reports of the 15th and 16th Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science London, 1846 7? 8vo — 2352 Reports of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and NewNewcastle, 1845—6, castle-upon-Tyne for the years 1842, 1843 and 1844 8vo 2973 Reprint of the Report of the Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital 3x2 ; with Catalogue of the Library of the Linnean Society 498 a History of the Ether Discovery, and Dr Morton's demy; edited by R H Dana, Jun 8vo Memoir to the French Aca- 2974 Rules and Regulations for the government of the Athenaeum 1846, 12mo 2975 Tijdschrift voor de Wis- en Natuurkundige Wetenschappen, Iste deel, afl Amsterdam, 1847— — Philadelphia, 1845 New Series, vol part 2, vol 10 part 7, 4to 1960 Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, vol parts — London, 1845 — — 5, and and vol 8, 8vo parts 804 Transactions of the Geological Society of London, 2nd Series, vol 7- parts London, 1845—6, — 8, 8vo 585 Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1 1, &3 4to 584 Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, vol 21 part 527 Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vols — Dublin, 1846, 4to Edinburgh, 1788 —98, 4to , vol 16 and vol 17 parts & lb 1845—7, 1964 Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol parts 1846—8, & 4to London, 4to 2976 Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 5th Edition London, 1846, 12mo lb 1847, 12mo 2977 , 6th Edition 499 [ ] DONORS LIST OF TO THE LIBRARY OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, With References to the Numbers affixed in the foregoing Catalogue to the by them The Royal Society of London, 438, Books presented respectively ] 944, 2900, 2961 The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 527, 1945 The Royal Irish Academy, 584, 2345 The Imperial Academy of Sciences of St Petersburg, 1929, The Imperial Academy Naturae Curiosorum, 1024 1930, 1949 The Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, 1597, 1906 The Royal Academy of Sciences of Brussels, 2303, 2310, 2964, 2966, 2967 The Royal Academy of Sciences of Munich, 1889, 2699, 2703, 2917, 2941 The Royal Academy of Sciences of Naples, 2742, 2822 The Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris, 620, 1914 The Royal Academy of Sciences of Stockholm, The Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, 586 The Academy of Sciences of Bologna, 2743 The Academy of Sciences of Montpelier, 2950 919, 2772, 2968 The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 920, 2738 The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 664, 2969 The Royal Institute of Sciences, Literature and Fine Arts 2334, 2940, 2975 at Amsterdam, ; ' 500 Donors to the Library of the Linnean Society The Royal Society of Sciences of Copenhagen, 2207, 2321, 2323 The Royal Society of Sciences of Gottingen, 2698, 2965 The National Institute for the Promotion of Science at Washington, 2704 The Lyceum of Natural History of New York, 2301 The Royal Agricultural Society of England, 2322 The Royal Agricultural Society of Lyons, 2701 The American Philosophical Society, 585, 664, 2341 The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c., 2962 The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1921 The Royal Astronomical Society of London, The Animals' Friend Society, 2951 1344, 2971 The Boston Society of Natural History, 2309, 2740 The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 1903 The Entomological Society of France, 2700 The Entomological Society of London, 1960, 2867, 2970 The Royal Geographical Society of London, 1924 The Geological The Geological Society of Dublin, 2956 Society of London, 804, 1619, 2972 The Horticultural Society of London, 2957 The Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, 1602 a, 2922, 2959 The Linnean Society of Lyons, 2300, 2955 The Literary and Philosophical Society of Leeds, 17 The Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, 440 The Natural History Society of Geneva, 1931 The Natural History Society of Hamburgh, 2949 The Natural History Society of Mauritius, 2781 The Natural History Society of Northumberland, 2362 The Natural History Society of the Pays de Vaud, 2954 The Natural History Society of Vienna, 2850, 285 The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, 2963 The Zoological Society of London, 1947, 1964 The Administration of the Museum of Natural History of Paris, 1939 1 The Trustees of the British Museum, 2837, 2838, 2839 D.C., Donors The Court to the Library of the Linnean Society of Directors of the 501 Hon East India Company, 2705, 2782, 2844, 2845, 2846 The British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1951 The Athenaeum Club, 2960, 2974 The Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, 2789, 2790, 2806 The Managers of the London Institution, 1908, 2847- The Royal College of Physicians, 2707, The Minister of Public Instruction in France, 2877The Editor of the Journal of the Indian Archipelago, 2958 The Author of the Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 2976, 2977 Arthur Adams, Esq R.N F.L.S 2755 Professor C B Adams, 2756 D T Ansted, Esq M.A F.L.S 2758, 2759, 2760, 2761, 2762, 2763 Charles C Babington, Esq M.A F.L.S 2765 T W M F Barlow, Esq F.L.S 2766 M Barn^oud, 2767- Joseph Barratt, M.D 2768 Dr Beck, 2953 Jacob M Bell, Esq F.L.S 2737- Luigi Bellardi, 2769 J J Bennett, Esq Sec L.S 1602 George Bentham, Esq F.L.S 1982 Antonio Bertoloni, M.D F.M.L.S 1647, 2385 Joseph Bertoloni, M.D 2770, 2771 Bartolomraeo Biasoletto, M.D 2773, 2774 Professor Bojer, 2775 Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, 2776, 2777, 2778, 2779 Professor Botto, 2780 T H Braim, Esq 2782 Thomas Brightwell, Esq F.L.S 2784 James Brown, Esq 2807Sir Harford Hermann J J Brydges, F.L.S 2888 Burmeister, M.D 2407, 2785 502 Donors to the Library of the Linnean Society George Busk, Esq F.L.S 2935 Theodore Cantor, M.D 2786, 2787 Richard Chambers, Esq F.L.S 2926 Edward Charlesworth, Esq F.G.S 2788 Jonathan Couch, Esq F.L.S 2791 A G Dahlbom, Ph.D 2427 J D Dana, Esq 2792, 2793 Charles G B Daubeny, M.D F.L.S 2794, 2795 Professor Alph DeCandoUe, F.M.L.S The Delessert, F.M.L.S 2036 late Baron 1687, 2796 The Right Hon the Earl of Derby, K.G 2836 M Charles Des Moulins, 2799, 2800, 2801, 2802 L W Dillwyn, Esq F.L.S 2803 Edward Doubleday, Esq M P Duchartre, 2804 J F.L.S., Jssist Brit Mus 2854 Eisenberg, Esq 2805 George Engelman, Esq 2811 M L R de Fellenberg, 2814, 2815 F, E L de Fischer, M.D F.M.L.S Gotthelf Fischer de Waldheim, W 1718, 2764, 2816, 2943 M.D F.M.L.S 1061, 2783, 2813 R Fisher, Esq F.L.S 2849 Asa Fitch, M.D 2818 W H Fitton, M.D F.L.S 2819, 2820, 2821 T I M Forster, M.B., F.L.S 2823, 2824, 2825 M Charles Gaudichaud, F.M.L.S 2827, 2828, 2829, 2830 Professor Gen6, 2831 Augustus A Gould, M.D 2833 Asa Gray, M.D F.M.L.S 2834, G R Gray, Esq F.L.S 2835 The late William Griffith, Esq F.L.S 2840, 2841, 2842, 2843 M E Gu^rin-M6neville, 2848 J Hamel, M.D 2852, 2853 Joseph Harrison, Esq 1749 Arthur Henfrey, Esq F.L.S 2856 Donors to the Library of the Linnean Society Robert Heward, Esq F.L.S 2857, 2858 R B Hinds, Esq Surg R.N 2501 J Van der Hoeven, M.D 1759 John Hogg, Esq F.L.S 2859, 2860, 2861 M le Baron d'Hombres-Firmas, 2509, 2862, 2863, 2864, 2865 J D Hooker, M.D F.L.S 25 The Rev F W Hope, F.L.S 2921 Leonard Horner, Esq V.P.R.S 2868 The late Joseph Janson, Esq F.L.S 2416, 2878 Edward Jenner, A.L.S 2869 E F Kelaart, M.D F.L.S 2871 Richard Kippist, Libr.L.S 2874, 2878 a M.D 2872 Edwin Lankester, M.D F.L.S 2875, 2885 F T Kiitzing, Vicomte de Lapasse, 2876 Joseph Leidy, M.D 2879, 2880, 2881, 2882 M A Le Jolis, 2883 E J Lowe, Esq 2886 George Luxford, A.L.S 2887 M Charles Martins, 2889 C F Ph von Martins, M.D F.M.L.S 2890, 2891, 2892 John Miers, Esq F.L.S 2893 J H Moris, M.D 2174, 2780 S G Morton, M.D 2757, 2832, 2884, 2894, 2895, 2896, 2973 George Munby, Esq 2897 Sir Roderick L Murchison, F.L.S 2898 Professor von Professor Nordmann, 2899 Owen, F.L.S 2607, 2901 William Pamplin, A.L.S 2314, 2676, 2918 John Parkin, Esq 2902 Professor Pailatore, 2903, 2904, 2905, 2906, 2907, 2908 Richard Parnell, M.D 2909 M C Passerini, 2910 ' H G Potter, Esq 2911 VOL XX u 503 Donors 504 to the Library of the Linnean Society Professor Prestandrea, 2912, 2913, 2914, 2915, 2916 T S Ralph, A.L.S 2870 Lovell Reeve, Esq F.L.S 2510, 2628, 2826, 2866, 2919, 2920 M Achille Richard, F.M.L.S 2923 Sir J James C Ross, F.L.S 2925 W Salter, A.L.S 1561 Dr von Schlechtendal, 2927Sir Robert H Schomburgk, 2928, 2929 Dr Sieveking, 2949 Edward Solly, Esq F.L.S 2930, 2931, 2932 G B Sowerby, Esq F.L.S 1319, 2655, 2933 Mrs C E Sowerby, 1864 J De C Sowerby, Esq F.L.S 781, 1561 William Spence, Esq F.L.S 2934 Esq F.L.S 1311 D H Storer, M.D 2936 J F Stephens, H E Strickland, Esq M.A 2937 W S SuUivant, Esq 2938 Richard Taylor, Esq Under-Sec L.S 1026, 2302 Professor Tenore, 2939 John Van Voorst, Esq 2734 Francis Walker, Esq F.L.S 2942 Adam White, Esq F.L.S 2944, 2945 Robert Wight, Esq M.D- F.L.S 2284, 2947, 2948 William Yarrell, Esq F.L.S 2295 505 [ ] DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, Exclusive of Presents of single Specimens of Animals, Plants, and Minerals Continued from Page 540 of Vol XIX of the Society's Transactions Donations Specimens , of 126 species of Emits , Seeds indigenous to A nvT t^ New , TTT oouth Wales , ,, T and] Alexander , T^ r^T e f MacLeay, Esq., F.L.S Collection of dried Plants from the neigh- bourhood of Sydney, A Donors New South Wales small Collection of dried Plants from Wellington, Van Diemen s Land E Biclieno, Esq., F.L.S., Colonial Secretary Van Diemen's Land J , , > Mr from Demerara „ J Mount _ J „ , Bonwick J ] ^^^ pharmaceutical V p t ] > , the Tyrol g „ , , The Ferdmandeum „ Mr the Fruit of Centrolobium robustum Mart., W Pamplin, A.L.S from Guiana and of Specimens of an Aurantiaceous Fruit, that of a species of Spondias, from the of Dahomy ] > J u Mr John Duncan , , Society of Innsbruck, J Port AdeSixty species of dried Plants from a Specimen of laide, South Australia ; and Kingdom Society, through Dr J Dried Specimens of 430 species of Plants from , Specimens of the Fruit and Seeds of the Melegueta Pepper {Amomum Melegueta, Roscoe), J •' 506 Donations to the Museum of the Linnean Donations Society Donors Specimens of 37 species of Musci, new to the" Society's Herbarium ; collected by G S G S Gough, Esq., F.L.S Gough, Esq., F.L.S., on the Neelgherry Mountains Dried Specimens of 114 species of New Hoi-' land Plants, chiefly from the neighbour- The Rev William Hincks, F.L.S hood of Port Jackson ; together with the Fruit of a species of Leq/this Dried Specimens of Veronica verna and V tri- Phleum Boehmeri, Calamagrostis phyllos, epigejos, Scleranthus perennis, Silene Otites and sella conica, Delphinium A C J F Bunbury, Esq., F.L.S Limo- and Artemisia campestris, aquatica, from Suffolk Consolida, ' packet of Ceylon Plants, and dried Specimens of 70 species of Plants from the -E F Kelaart, M.D,, F.L.S South of Spain Pods of the Port Royal Senna [Cassia obovata, or E Sheppard, R.A., F.L.S ';}Maj Coll.), from Jamaica Fruits oi Eucalyptus macrocarpa Hook., Bank-' sia sphcBrocarpa, chya, Lindl.?, H R Br., B cylindrostacristata, R Br., and cyclocarpa, Lindl., from Swan River Dried Specimens of 132 species of Plants from the Caucasus, collected by Mr Carl Witt- mann, of Odessa A Richard Kippist, Libr Hakea h.'S Botanic Society of London, [-The Royal J The Rev A Bloxam Collection of British Rubi Dried Specimens of the Grasses of Britain Richard Parnell, M.D ' Specimens of the Honey Parrot, and of the old and young male and female of the Satin Bower Bird {Ptilonorhynchus V " Kuhl) Specimens of about 40 species of Fruits and" Seeds, collected in Mexico by Mr C Jurgensen and of Fruits collected by Mr Gosse in Jamaica ; Charles Stokes, Esq., F.L.S holosericeus, The late Joseph Janson, Esq., F.L.S Donations to the Museum of the Linnean Society Donations DONOKS Casts of the Teeth of Dorudon serratus, Gibbes Specimens of 50 species of 507 Dr S G Morton New Zealand Plants Hugh Low, Esq Flora Tyrolensis Exsiccata Dried Specimens of the Plants of the Tyrol Cent 11, -The Ferdinandeum Society of Innsbruck and part of Cent 12 (nos 401—1150) — ' Specimens of Draba aizoides, Lepidium Draba, and Brassica CAeirawMiw, from Glamorgan- I Matthew Moggridge, Esq shire Specimens of the Stems of species of Cactus, collected in Mexico by Mr Bridges • tt • i, p • t? J Specimens of the Fruits of Banksia ericifolia, B serrata, Xylomelum pyriforme, Hakea gibbosa, H, dactyloides, Petrophila pulchella, Melaleuca linearis, species of J S Bowerbank, Esq., F.L.S Camarina, &c., from the neighbourhood of Port Jack- son Specimens of 15 species oi Coleoptera, from Cape Palmas chiefly Dr Savage, through the Rev M.A., F.L.S J F.W.Hope, Thirteen species of Plants, collected in the" Arctic Regions by Captain Sir Edward Parry, R.N ; and 70 species of Myrtacem \ The Lord Bishop of Norwich, Pres L.S and Leguminosae, collected chiefly in South Wales by T H Braim, Esq New J Five Bird Skins from A Collection New South Wales Charles Stokes, Esq., F.L.S of dried Plants and Fruits, formed Drs principally in the neighbourhood of Phila- delphia by Dr Gavin An Watson Watson and Morton ' extensive Collection of South American Insects, formed by Captain P P King, R.N., F.R.S & L.S., including those described by Messrs vols Curtis, Haliday and Walker Captain P P King, R.N., F.L.S in 17 — 19 of the Linnean Transactions _ Specimens of the Snake-Nut of Guiana (OpAio-" caryon, Endl.), of the Fruit of the Greenheart {Nectandra Rhodiai), of Carapa Quianensis, Aubl., of the Tonga Bean {Dipteryx odorata, Aubl.), and of the Letter-wood }• Dr Bascome 508 Donations to the Museum of the Linnean Society Donors Donations Dried Specimens of Australianil/yrtoce