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XXV. ExT'RACTS from the Minute Book of the Linnean Society, 



^pr'ilj^ An account was laid before the Society, from Dr. Mac- 

 1801. culloch, F. L. S. of an artifice ufed by the Cancer Phalangium 

 to enfnare its prey. This contrivance confifts in tlie in{('6l 

 -: drefling itfelf up, as it were, in fragments of a Fucus (the 



narrow-leaved variety of Hudlon's r///W«/), which it fecms 

 to cut off, and to attach to the long hairs of its body and 

 legs by means of a glutinous fubftance. It thus imitates a 

 perfe(5l plant of that Fucus fo accurately as to have deceived 

 Dr. Macculloch. See Tab. XXXI. ^ -^ 



0&.6, L. W. Diilwyn, Efq. F. L.S. fent information of his 

 having difcovered the Syftmbnum murale of Linnxus (a plant 

 not hitherto noticed as of Britilli growth) growing wild 

 abundantly on the pier at Ramfgate and other places there- 

 abouts. He believes it to be rather common throughout the 

 ifle of Thanet. 



Bee, 1. A letter from Dr. Walter Wade, of Dublin, A.LS. to 

 the Prefident, mentions his having found the Eriocauhn fep- 

 tangulare, Engl, Bot, v. ii, t. 733, in Ireland. It has never 

 before been feen but in the Ifle of Skye. Dr. Wade obfervcd 

 it laft September, decorating the edges of all the lakes, great 

 and fmall, in the romantic mountainous diftricl of Cunna- 

 inara, in the county of Galvvay. He remarked the number 

 of angles in the ftem to vary from 6 to 10, though noft 



frequently 



