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XXII. Extracts//'0/w the Minute-Book of the Linnean Society 
of London. 
Jan. 5, JMr. Lambert, V.P.L.S., laid before the Society some 
1802. specimens of the Agrostis linearis of Koenig, Retzius, 
and Willdenow (the Durva of the Hindoos), which he 
received among a large collection of Indian Grasses 
from Dr. Roxburgh. This is the grass which is figured 
in the 4th Volume of the Asiatic Researches t and so much 
celebrated by the late Sir William Jones for the great 
beauty of its flowers, and for its sweetness and nutritious 
quality as pasture for cattle ; but Mr. Lambert observes 
that on his first seeing it he immediately suspected it to 
:be the Panicum Dactylon of Linnaeus ; and upon com- 
paring it with fine specimens in the Banksian Herbarium, 
it proves to be the same. Although this plant grows 
sparingly in Cornwall, yet it is never found there in the 
same perfection as in the south of Europe, or in the East 
Indies ; and Mr. Lambert thence conjectures that it is 
not originally a native of England. 
Dec. 20, Mr. Templeton, A. L. S. of Orange-Grove near Belfast, 
1803. in a letter to Mr. Dawson Turner, F.L.S., mentions that 
the White-winged Cross-bill, Loxia fakirostra of Latham, 
was shot within two miles of Belfast, in the month of 
January 1802. It was a female, and perfectly resembled 
the figure in D irons Voyage to the North-west Coast of 
America. 
Feb. 
