Transactions of the Linnean Society of London/Volume 10

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MDCCCXI.

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PART I.
I. Characters of a Liliaceous Genus called Brodiæa. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S.	p.	1
II. Remarks on the Sedum ochroleucum, or Αειζωον το μικρον of Dioscorides; in a Letter to Alexander MacLeay, Esq. Sec. L.S. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S.	p.	6
III. A Determination of Three British Species of Juncus, with jointed Leaves. By the Rev. Hugh Davies, F.L.S.	p.	10
IV. On the Proteaceæ of Jussieu By Mr. Robert Brown, Lib. L.S.	p.	15
V. On a remarkable Variety of Pedicularis sylvatica: in a Letter to Alexander MacLeay, Esq. F.R.S. and Sec. L.S. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S.	p.	227
PART II.
VI. A Botanical Description and Natural History of the Malabar Cardamom. By Mr. David White, Surgeon on the Bombay Establishment. Communicated by the Directors of the Hon. East India Company. With additional Remarks by William George Maton, M.D. V.P.L.S., &c.	p.	229
VII. Some Account of the Herbarium of Professor Pallas. By Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. F.R.S. and A.S. V.P.L.S.	p.	256
VIII. Some Remarks on the Synonyms and native Country of Hypericum calycinum. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. and P.L.S.	p.	266
IX. Notes relating to Botany, collected from the Manuscripts of the late Peter Collinson, Esq. F.R.S. and communicated by Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. F.R.S. and A.S. V.P.L.S.	p.	270
X. A Description of several Species of Plants from New Holland. By Edward Rudge, Esq. F.R.S. and L.S.	p.	283
XI. Some Remarks on the Physiology of the Egg, communicated in a Letter from John Ayrton Paris, M.B. to William George Maton, M.D. V.P.L.S. &c. &c.	p.	304
XII. Some Observations on the Parts of Fructification in Mosses; with Characters and Descriptions of Two new Genera of that Order. By Mr. Robert Brown, Lib. Linn. Soc.	p.	312
XIII. Description of Seven new Species of Testacea. By Mr. William George Maton, M.D. F.R.S. & A.S. and V.P.L.S.	p.	325
XIV. An Account of several Plants, recently discovered in Scotland by Mr. George Don, A.L.S. not mentioned in the Flora Britannica nor English Botany. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S.	p.	333
XV. Descriptions of Seven new Species of Apion. By the Rev. William Kirby, F.L.S.	p.	347
XVI. Account of Ormosia, a new Genus of Decandrous Plants belonging to the Natural Order of Leguminosæ. By Mr. George Jackson, F.L.S.	p.	358
XVII. An Account of a new Genus of New Holland Plants named Brunonia. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S.	p.	365
XVIII. A Description of Duchesnea fragiformis, constituting a new Genus of the Natural Order of Senticosæ of Linnaeus, Rosaceæ of Jussieu. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S.	p.	371
XIX. Observations on some Species of Menziesia, hitherto considered as belonging to the Genus Andromeda, by Mr. Ol. Swartz, M.D. Bergian Professor of Botany at Stockholm, F.M.L.S.	p.	375
Additional Note by the President	p.	379
XX. Some Observations in the Genus Andræa; with descriptions of four British Species. By William Jackson Hooker, Esq., F.L.S.	p.	381
XXI. Some Account of an Insect of the Genus Buprestis, taken alive out of Wood composing a Desk which had been made above twenty Years. In a Letter to Alexander MacLeay, Esq. F.R.S. and Sec. L.S. by Thomas Marsham, Esq. Treas. L.S.	p.	399
XXII. Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean Society of London	p.	404
Catalogue of the Library of the Linnean Society, continued from Page 328 of Vol. IX. of the Society's Transactions	p.	408
List of Donors to the Library of the Linnean Society	p.	411
Donations to the Museum of the Linnean Society	p.	413

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