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XXVIII. ExTRACTSjfo/w the Minute Book of the Linnean Society. 



July 2, ' I *HE President communicated an account of Mcerops 



1794. JL Apiafter, the Bee-eater, having been {hot (for the 

 firft time in Great Britain) near Mattiihall in the county 

 of Norfolk, by the Rev. Mr. George Smith. The identical 

 fpecimen was exhibited, by per million of Mr. Thomas Tal- 

 bot of Wymondham. A flight of about twenty was ken 

 in June, and the fame flight probably (much diminished in 

 numbers) was obferved paffing over the fame fpot in Oc- 

 tober following. 



Dec. 2. A fpecimen of I'amarix gallica, gathered in a wild ftate on 

 St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, by W. G. Maton, Efq. 

 F.L.S. was prefented to the Society. 



June 2, Specimens of feveral rare native plants of Scotland, from 



1795. Profe (Tor James Beattie, junior, of the Marefchal College, 

 Aberdeen, were prefented by the Prefident, and among 

 them Julnnaa borealis, difcovered by that gentleman, for the 

 firft time in Britain, in an old fir wood at Mearns near 

 Aberdeen. 



May 3, Mr. Fairbairn prefented a living fpecimen of a Rufcus, 



1796. which, though long cultivated in Cheliea garden, has been 

 hitherto overlooked by botanifls as a variety of the acu- 

 leatus* Being referred to the Prefident for examination, it 

 was returned with the following name and character : 



Ruscus 



