XX. Extracts from the Minutr-Boox of the Linnean Society 
of London. 
Feb. 21. Tur Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks communi- 
1804. cated an account of the Centriscus Scolopax having 
lately been driven on the shore of a fishing cove belong- 
ing to Philip Rashleigh, Esq., at Menabilly near Fowey, 
Cornwall, whose letter on the subject to Sir Joseph, 
accompanied by a coloured drawing, was laid before 
the Society *. 
E 
Nov. 6. Read a letter from the President pare the fol- 
Jowing remarks on British plants : 
The Sonchus alpinus of Hudson, ceruleus of T Fi. 
Brit., introduced into the list of British plants on the 
authority of Wallis’s History of Northumberland, proves 
to be nothing more than Cichorium Intybus, according 
to the observations of Mr. Winch in the places where 
Wallis reports it to grow. Dr. Smith has however re- . 
ceived from Mr. George Don a specimen of the real E 
Sonchus ceruleus, gathered on the Scottish mountain of LE. 
z Lochnagore, so thatit is still entitled to a place in the 
— Flora Britannica. 
-The Lonicera Xylosteum of Wallis is found also by. 
= e Mr. Winch to be only a dwarf maritime variety of 
* A figure of this fish has been published by Mr. Donovan in his Nat. ‘Hist. of 
British Fishes, tab. 63 A zs 
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